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Every HR professional’s dream: Reducing cost-per hire

Cost-per-hire is one of the most important and most commonly…

When recruiting business analysts and project managers for permanent positions, the legend of King Canute springs to mind. The medieval ruler’s famous and futile attempt to turn back the tide is not dissimilar to convincing high day-rate contractors of the benefits of a return to the permanent market.

With the wave of permanent employees moving…

Womens Techmakers is a great site dedicated to Women in Technology. It is a Google-run site and organization that can provide a lot of stuff. Not a lot of recruiters try to source there. The reason is simple they do not know how. Well to do this without worry you need go no further than into your bag of tricks and pull out an old tried and…

MBAs are expensive, involve a huge commitment of time and can have a massive impact on the lives of those around you. 

For example, they are infamous for putting strain on the strongest of relationships.

So are they worth doing? Will an MBA boost your career prospects or is it just a vanity project?

Cause and…

In 2009, The Academy of Management Journal published a study of “entrepreneur passion” and the effects it has on the funding decisions of venture capitalists.  The inherent challenge of entrepreneurial endeavors is the reliance on “selling” the vision. However, out of the multitude of factors considered, the most persuasive…

Receiving a job offer can be an exciting event in your career. But in order to make the right decision it's important to take a calm and measured approach.

This is especially true if the initial offer results in a counter bid from your existing employer, or you’re involved in an additional process with a second organisation.

First of all,…

Screening resumes and finding the best among them is considered one of the most tedious tasks in the recruitment process. It has been a manual process for decades. Now AI has challenged this traditional approach and automate the process with much higher accuracy. With AI it is possible to screen thousands of sales professionals and other pros in a few seconds.

AI for Resume Screening

As per the …

Let’s face it. This is a hard one. Work life balance- everyone talks about it, companies’ offer the best they could, we all know we want it and when we get it that doesn’t stay long enough and it's a constant pain in the rear.

Fortunately, wise people have understood the concept of work life balance and have laid a good foundation for us. All we…

Becoming a professional truck driver is a great option for individuals just getting into the workforce as well as for those who are nearing middle age. In fact, many people these days are pursuing this as a second career. Trucking is a well-loved career path because many truckers can choose their routes and their hours. Plus, the pay is often quite…

The growth of a firm is a very essential factor that determines its success. The main factor that influences this success is the capacity and quality of the people hired and who work go give back time the firm. Every year newly killed people emerge and it is the company's duty to regulate tilts work force and update it such that success and quality of…

Negotiating an extension can be the trickiest part of any contractor’s assignment. It can in some instances be the difference between building a successful career in consultancy – where you develop a real niche – and a jumpy, stop-start, short-lived, jack-of-all-trades one.

But little good advice exists on this topic and many contractors learn…

Finding a strong developer is not an easy task. As a rule, professionals of such caliber are in high demand, and it makes no sense for them to post their resumes on job boards. That’s why the process of searching for an ideal candidate may take much time and require additional knowledge and skills.

StackOverflow

StackOverflow is an online platform for IT professionals from all over the world (it currently has about 20 million users). The creators of this platform claim that…

The length of pre-employment checks shows no sign of decreasing. In fact, over the last five years the delay in hiring brought about by candidate vetting has increased by half to 15.2 days. This figure is even higher for…

Popular wisdom says that ‘Bards’ are those great story-tellers whose tales are embraced by the audience, not only once, but over and over again, for generations. The idea of a Bard conjures up names like Homer, Shakespeare, and perhaps few others. Reality is quite a bit different, though.

Etymology of the word “Bard” shows that it is of Welsh origin,…

Working in a corporate environment for long hours can be taxing, especially when the person working above you forgets to see you as a person and begins to perceive you as a machine with no emotions or personal life, what so ever. And, this is the scenario that most employees deal with today when their managers fail to foster an environment that exhibits positivity and coherence.

Therefore, managers have an essential role to play when it comes to infusing efficiency into an…