The Marketing field might be tricky for those who intend to get to a marketing school or college and expect to learn everything they have to learn with their teachers during the formation years.

Sometimes we might get too much distracted with the idea marketing involves meetings, projections, brainstorming and just planning of actions and strategies, but the job…

A business, like any other complex system, runs only as well as its individual parts allow it to operate. That is why the hiring and recruiting aspect of ecommerce is one of the most important tasks a business owner or entrepreneur must learn to navigate and streamline. It’s well known that low-performing employees can drag down a business, but there are several strategies that can help mitigate the risk of hiring candidates not suited…

The HBO show Silicon Valley epitomizes the stereotypical millennial. Credit HBO

We’ve all heard it before.

They only wear skinny jeans and chubbies. They can’t go five minutes without …

Even in periods of high unemployment, there are open jobs. Jobs that companies simply can’t fill. It’s not that candidates are unqualified for the positions necessarily, there are just too many of them for each opening. Recruiters and hiring managers are busy trying to fill these positions with candidates that not only have the necessary skills, but also the personalities to…

Gartner predicts that by 2025, about one-third of all jobs will be replaced by software or robots. Further to this point, CIO recently highlighted a range of jobs that can be taken over by robots. We…

Preparing for an interview is nerve wracking for the candidates and the recruiters alike. It can be off-putting for both parties, when one or both come unprepared for the interview.

Out of a focus group of 200 individuals, 80% agreed that if an interviewer showed up…

Students in their final year of graduation and the ones pursuing their graduation tend to blindly follow their peers without questioning the views expressed by fellow students about campus recruiting. These individuals generally take rumours to be true without questioning; hence they miss out on opportunities that they would have applied for if they haven’t fallen victims to these wide spread misconceptions floating about.

Many a times we as recruiter’s too follow misconceptions…

It has certainly been one of "Those" years.  One can't help but imagine where the time has inevitably gone.  Rounding out the year, there were moments where change was in full throttle with moments that created within it as a trajectory those little pressure cooked moments where you had to "buckle up, hold on tight, and go through several rounds of ups and downs, twists and turns and a roller coaster going about the speed of light." 

Enter December.  It has been such…

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Many years ago I was sent along to an external training course. A group of us had supposedly been identified as ‘rising stars’ and the seminar was going to help us reach our career…

At the beginning of recruiting implementation projects, I hear the same problem over and over:  Hiring people takes way too long.  Shortening up the timeline for approving and posting requisitions is usually identified as one of the primary goals of the implementation.  The team gets excited at the prospect of making changes, becoming efficient, and simplifying their work.

Then, after we have discussed the current process, problems, and goals for the project, we move into the design…

"Talent management is the science of using strategic human resource planning to improve business value and to make it possible for companies and organizations to reach their goals." It is just like the joint piece of puzzle that will altogether with the rest of other HR functions contribute to the total success of the company. Moreover, it should be even the most…

Strategic business decisions typically occur after long discussions, research, and most importantly, collaboration.  The addition of a new team member is just as vital as the decision to take on a new project, if not more.  You are investing time, money and energy when hiring, so making sure you have made the right choice is essential.

Hiring is often viewed…

Job marketing is slowly gaining traction with recruiters, who are realising that it is possible to reach candidate audiences without them having to first visit a job board.

There are many great examples of job marketing from around the world, here are my top 5:

Uber

Uber have really stirred up their industry and they are also doing the same with recruitment. If you ignore the accusations of cancelling rides and look at the undercover recruiter concept…

Most individuals spend much of their time on Social Media sites like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. Therefore online platforms are now more effective ways to get noticed and build your brand name.  Getting noticed is easier now thanks to social media because majority of the people are active on these sites. A company’s presence on these platforms is crucial as it determines the success or failure of the company.  Even though branding is easier it does require management because negative…

As a Boomer I shouldn’t admit this, but I like reading The Daily Muse and the Savvy Intern. While this admission is likely to cause of few of my more opinionated folks to publicly guffaw, no worries…

Job boards proclaim the promise of making it easy for both employers and employees to find each other.

When built correctly and maintained, job board websites hold true to that pledge. However, not all job boards are worthwhile the time and effort it takes to post or apply for, a job.

As the following article shows, here are the criteria that will help you…

Gone are the days when a working professional would spend 30 years of his career in one company, in the same job. Today’s fast paced generation is all about climbing the success ladder and getting ahead. People are constantly trying to upgrade and update their knowledge and skills so that they don’t get left behind. Just being good at what you do is no longer going to cut it. If you want a jet setting career, a well paying job, seniority in your company and perks to match, you will have to…