Landing a good oil and gas job requires standing out from the competition of oil and gas industry professionals. The primary aspects that help you win a new role are your CV, a good cover letter, and then your interview skills. A cover letter can…

Flexible working comes in all shapes and sizes. From job sharing and remote working to flexi-time and compressed hours, flexible working means that employees have a say in how, when and where they work. With the opportunity to work flexibly now one of the top considerations for job-hunters …

As you must have realized that Human Resources department is a critical department for an organization. Though it was easier earlier to push an HR department in the background, when making some important decisions, it has, over the years, become increasingly difficult to side track it. Especially, when there has been so much emphasis on people management or rather talent management.

Managing people has always been and would always be the primary function of an HR department. However,…

Work culture is like personality of an organisation. How would people describe the work environment is determined by the work culture that is in place. Companies invest a lot in developing people friendly environment. Everyone knows about Google; how they pamper their folks.

But creating a viable work culture in a bootstrapped start-up is not only difficult but also consumes a lot of management bandwidth, which is hard to come by. And on top of that, if the start-up comprises mostly…

Some adults may feel that they could bring more to their role with the right knowledge and training. However, it’s possible that many people think that they can’t speak to their employer and ask them for education funding. Perhaps they believe that this is an inappropriate question to ask, or they don’t think that their employer would agree. In reality, employees that have been invested in by their place of work often have a higher well-being and are more productive — bringing more to their…

Your business is either growing or it's dying. Since you want to be successful, you'll want to employ these tips for maximizing your business' growth.

When you want to grow your business, you need to start off on “the right foot.” For massive growth, this means making sure your business is organized. While this is easier if you’re running a big business that…

Anyone who works in human resources knows just how important corporate culture is. A strong culture attracts and retains better talent, influences goals, and distinguishes your brand from competitors. While there is no “right” corporate culture, not all are created equal. They can be an organization’s strongest asset, or their biggest liability.

With…

Are you struggling to find new Java Developers and it seems like everywhere you go you are coming up dry?  The fact is Java is still the most popular programming language with over 9 million developers around the globe.

Java is made up of not only core Java but many very popular frameworks.  It is possible that Java Developers could list out their frameworks rather than…

More organizations are waking up to the fact that their employees are their most valuable resources. From providing employees more autonomy to offering incentives, modern businesses try every trick in the book to ensure employee satisfaction. Many businesses go one step further and come up with various policies and programs to engage their employees. The…

In college, your budget may have been difficult to manage. You may have had fluctuating income and expenses because of irregularity in your college and work schedules. You may have also relied on student loans and even credit cards at times to pay for various expenses. Now that you are graduating, you may be eager to gain control over your finances and manage your…

If you want to attract the best candidates, you need to make your career blog stand out. And it sure will with these 5 creative ideas!

How to make your career blog stand out?

If you want to attract the best candidates…

I remember years ago when I was recruiting on a Java role to which one of the requirements included 3+ years of solid COBOL development experience in addition to 5+ years of C++.  Being a contract developer myself I began to think to myself and wonder what kind of an environment is this to which they have three very different code bases?

The program manager at the time…

Looking to improve your employee onboarding process? Simply follow these 3 great tips!

Why should you improve your employee onboarding program?

Employee onboarding is a very method used in…

Sourcing and recruiting effective talent is only a small part of the Talent Capture equation.  In today's feverishly competitive market we simply do not have enough skilled professionals for a host of Cyber, Cloud and Developer roles, particularly in the Federal IT space.

In your organization how long does it take when you send a successfully screened candidate to a…

Codecall  is a community for Developers were you can learn new things, and post question to get answers. 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 true tool, a simple search with some…

Books are a great way to obtain in-depth knowledge from your industry. Reading around your profession can help you face different areas of your job with confidence.

Training course providers TheKnowledgeAcademy.com have found in a study of 1,900 professionals…

Whether you’re entering the development world for the first time or looking to expand your existing skills, learning to use up and coming programming languages will keep you ahead of the curve (cue job flexibility and salary increases)! So which language should you learn? With hundreds of languages on the market, we’ve compiled some of the…

The Middle East has certainly faced economic and political challenges in recent years, which has led to uncertainty in the recruitment industry.

The collapse of oil prices in 2014-15 and reduction in government spending saw many businesses respond with caution and look to reduce costs and gain improvements in efficiency by restructuring, accepting more expatriates, merging roles and indeed redundancies.

As a result, although the region has historically seen skills shortages,…