How to Retain Talent? Teach Them to Leave, Says KBS+


It’s first thing in the morning. You’ve grabbed a coffee and a pastry, and you settle in to a lecture on convertible debt and preferred equity, followed by a tutorial on how startups should select angel investors.

Sound like an MBA course? It’s actually an in-house training program in entrepreneurship at New York agency KBS+.

In the ad world, there are two big problems when it comes to talent: finding it and keeping it. Finding worthy candidates to recruit to agencies is tough enough when they may rather work for the Googles, Facebooks and Twitters of the world. For talent already in the business, the problem is staying motivated and feeling like your career path is widening rather than narrowing.

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