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66%

66% -- share of managers prioritising enquiring mind over specific skills when hiring for strategy hiring managers (2021)

Name: Share Of Managers Prioritising Enquiring Mind Over Specific Skills When Hiring Statistics
Creator: Lighthouse Intelligence
Published: 2026-09-28

2021 · WARC

66% of managers look for an enquiring mind over specific skills when hiring.

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Value

66%

Unit

Percentage

Data Vintage

2021

Entity

strategy hiring managers

Evidence Quality

Strong, reliable evidence

Sourced from a well-regarded research firm or industry leader with transparent methodology and a reasonably large sample.

66/100 confidence

Single source - not yet corroborated

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Source Trust

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Independence

Methodology

Freshness

Source

WARC Primary Tier A

https://www.arabadonline.com/en/details/news-in-brief/Strategy-is-growing-in-importance-and-divergen… ↗

Confidence: 57/100 Vintage: 2021 Channel: Common Crawl

Source Article

Strategy is growing in importance and divergence but lacks diversity in its hiring

Original Research

WARC · Original study ↗

Methodology

WARC Future of Strategy 2021 survey

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Industrymarketing

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strategy hiring managers: 66% share of managers prioritising enquiring mind over specific skills when hiring. Source: WARC (2021). Via Lighthouse Intelligence -- https://lighthousedata.io/data/managers-hiring-enquiring-mind-2021

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