Working outside the typical 9 to 5 job can be great, but without a solid base of clients, you could end up just another starving artist. The purpose of entrepreneurship is to have financial freedom and a better work-life balance. In order to stay ahead of the game -- and your bills -- you need to take certain measures to ensure that you have a…

Yes, we are talking about your employee referral program. For several years, referrals have topped the list of external hire sources. It makes perfect sense - who can assess cultural fit and level of skill better than a current or former employee? Just to name a few benefits; …

Things change so fast in our profession!

Here are the five major elements, that have just changed in Google's Boolean search syntax. If you are reading this blog, you will be one of the first people to know.

1. Synonyms in searching. Much to our delight, Google has restored the…

Pre-selection is an efficient and cost-effective early step of the recruiting process, with the goal to filter out candidates that do NOT match the job profile. It’s called negative selection: the ability to identify and deselect the people that will not perform well in the job.

Then there is the classical positive selection: which of the suitable candidates are best suited to the job requirements and the team? Logically, a successful hire (meaning a successful…

Attitudes to Women in Tech are not Keeping Apace with the Digital Revolution

Martha Lane Fox, who delivered this year’s Dimbleby Lecture on the theme of “Dot Everyone,” is the co-founder of lastminute.com, a website that spawned many just like it. Created in 1998, it was an unreserved success for her and co-founder Brent Hoberman, as it was sold in 2003…

In 1989 Tecmo Co. Ltd. released arguably the greatest football game of all time, Tecmo Bowl for the Nintendo Entertainment System, or Famicon for my friends from Japan.  Compared to the EA Sports games, which we have become used to in HD and with the hyper realistic depictions of Colin Kapernick’s tattoos, Tecmo Bowl, in all of its 8 bit glory, was the first console game to…

We’ve been working hard to provide the first candidate based tool for job search. In effect, we think the entire current model is backwards. Jobs should be finding candidates instead of the other way around.

As part of this effort, we have spoken with hundreds of professionals about their experience and frustration with current job search. The feedback has been remarkably consistent with the key points being:

1.) Searching for jobs with current tools is…

A lot of X-Ray searches are stacked in favour of people looking for Permanent staff, rather than professional contractors.

Here, we’ll show you some techniques to redress the balance. There are more and more freelancer sites popping up and they attract people from across the globe who can work remotely, or on site.

On these sites you'll find a good mix of Contractors and Interims who can commit to long term projects, together with professionals looking for shorter term…

I have been studying up on being a great leader and just how, precisely that is done. While I don’t have any tried and true battle theories (yet) I did think I would tackle some things that help make a great leader…being a great co-worker. Here are 14 things you NEED to be a great co-worker (which I sincerely hope begets great leadership skills cuz…you know):

SELF-AWARENESS

If you don’t have a handle on who you are as a…

Depending on whom you ask, you’re likely to get a range of opinions and justifications. From a candidate’s perspective, the answer is going to be a resounding, “Are you kidding me, of course! That’s why I took time to attend this career fair in the first place.” However, ask 10 recruiters and you’ll get as many opinions from the philosophical to the…

Often when candidates accept a new job opportunity, it’s for a higher level position or for more money. This advancement could be what attracted them to the job at the time, but will it keep them satisfied?

Say you had a job ad that asked for a candidate with 3 to 5 years’ experience and the salary offered at the time sounded appealing to the person matching that requirement. However, once that candidate is in your position, they will grow to have more experience, perhaps 5 to 8…

Psychometric testing has long been splitting opinions in the recruitment industry, with one camp of recruiters labelling them a valuable assessment resource and the other labelling them a pseudoscientific pile of crock.  Despite the substantial doubt cast over their value, psychometric tests are used by some 70%…

When students start thinking about their higher education, there are decisions that should be taken based on the circumstances and capacity of different individuals. Just deciding the name of a college or a university is not enough, there are consequences of making that choice, commitments to be performed and effort to be undertaken. Sometimes your choice of a particular college and program can indirectly affect your family or your parents, if they are sponsoring your education fees. When we…

“For all of my career, I've been trying to catch people after they do something horrible. For once in my life, I'd like to catch somebody BEFORE they do something horrible, all right? Can you understand that?” - ATF Agent Doug Carlin (Déjà Vu, 2006)

We all would love to travel back in time to stop something bad from happening.  In business, losing a key employee when you could have prevented it can be tragic as well.  It can cost, on average, some …

In almost every video game, there are special bonuses that convey advantages, such as more strength or firepower. These powerups can heal injuries, increase supremacy and accelerate a character’s ability to achieve the objectives and win a level or even the entire game.

Real-life powerups are available to leaders who foster interdependent relationships between all parties—managers, employees and co-workers. Interdependence creates a healthy dynamic…

Contingent workers have the “always on” mentality. The self-employed workers live and breathe time management since they work according to their own schedule. They also pick and choose how many clients they want to have. This means contingent employees must use their time wisely and take advantage of any time-saving tactics available. Managers with tight hiring budgets can…

With Smart phones and Tablets flooding the markets and finding their way in almost every home, it is only natural that mobile marketing would facilitate a company’s branding and marketing. If there was an easier and efficient way to market your products or the company’s branding that too being cost effective wouldn’t you want to use it? Well mobile marketing is bound…

On a daily basis, more and more people immigrated to Europe. They are looking for a better life and they are completely sure that they will be able to find it there. Of course, there are countless of different places in Europe where you will be able to go and not only find a new and exciting life but actually find yourselves in a place that will be much quieter, much more peaceful and will of course satisfy you much more.

A great place to…

If you are looking to make some changes to your diet plan then you will have to make sure that you are coming up with the healthy and balanced diet plan. There are multiple things that you can include in your daily diet plan but, you will haveto make sure that you are choosing the right things and in theright proportion. You should know that if you are not taking your diet in right proportions then you will have to face problems in the long run and this is exactly why it is so important to…

There are many tourism agencies which offer different packages for tourism all around the world. But not all of them are perfect. Some seem feasible but their cost is too high. Those which seem affordable, have minimum amount of facilities. To solve this issue for their valuable customers, Firebird Tours offers best tourism packages with best facilities at the best rate.…