While visiting an event or attending virtual discussions, people look for advice on creating an awesome resume i.e. a resume that can be read by a resume parser with perfection.

Vinay Johar, CEO of RChilli, talks about a few common questions that people ask about creating perfect resumes.

Q1: What do I need to understand about how your resume is parsed?

I recommend being honest when you prepare your resume. Instead of going…

Before the Covid 19 pandemic, most businesses and corporations were already very familiar with the term “Video Interview Software”. In a 2019 HR report by Hiring Thing, 60% of surveyed businesses in the US alone have employed video interview for talent search. The arrival of the pandemic only serves to increase the use of…

LeadCandy is a lead generation and sales intelligence solution for B2B sales and Marketing teams.

LeadCandy is a little-known site/tool and few have tried to source in it. Well to do this without

you need go no further than into your bag of tricks and pull out an old tried and true tool,

called…

The pandemic has laid a significant impact on the…

What is your view of your world? I know it sounds like a strange question but hear me out. The vast majority of HR consists of responding to HR challenges in a transactional mode. The issue fire make sits presence known and you respond to it and then mov eon to the next fire. That is how HR has been since the early days at National Cash Register. Here is the problem however. Approaching the need to continuously improve the organizational problems in a transactional mode…

If you are a recruiter and reading this blog, how much time usually do you spend on scheduling a job interview?

Rakuna’s customer insight research found that more than 30% of recruiters/ recruiting coordinators regard interview scheduling…

This year has been no easy ride for businesses and the individuals within them. Since the pandemic forced a lot of us to work remotely, finding the motivation to persist with our everyday tasks has been a challenge. It is now more important than ever that employers recognise and reward their staffs' efforts to continue working through these…

Applicant tracking software (ATS) is one of the most effective hiring solutions for businesses. For most companies, hiring is one of the most important and time-consuming processes for management. Fortunately, an ATS can create automatically syndicate job postings, review resume applications, and keep candidates updated on their…

Teamwork is one of the most powerful forces in any modern workplace. When it works, it’s a beautiful thing. Trouble is, while a united, company-wide approach to business is a proven success driver for senior managers and HR departments – delivering benefits everywhere from innovation and creativity, to efficiency and ROI – it can be tricky to…

With university the obvious next step for many school leavers, attracting new talent can be competitive.  While the benefit of apprentices to e.g.  growing businesses can't be underestimated.  The ability to train your staff and integrate them into a working culture has its obvious advantages. But the reasons for creating on-the-job training courses for new talent are increasing every day. Here we look at how businesses are benefiting from apprentices, and how they can grow in the…

“Human Resources isn’t a thing we do; it’s the thing that runs our business”- Steve Wynn.

Once upon a time there was a period of time in the staffing world were post and pray was the way. There were a large group of “staffing professionals” who only knew how to post a job, and pray they get what they want. As you can imagine this gave staffing a bad name with their hiring managers(HM) as, they rarely were able to give the HMs what they…

Military life can be a mixture of strenuous activity, rigorous discipline, and a profound sense of duty or accomplishment. Although many people choose to serve for a few years and return to civilian life, others can make a lifelong career out of it. Whatever your choice,…

Is LinkedIn still the best networking platform for senior professionals? Or is it more fine-tuned towards recruitment at a junior to medium level, rather than adding networking value for the highly experienced individual? Vanessa Rogers investigates.

Did you know that it’s really not feasible for us to attempt to relate to, or to nurture, as many as 150 connections? But a recent study of over 2 000 LinkedIn users has shown that most 35- to 44-year-olds have as many as 270 connections;…

Social Media is considered to be one of the most powerful marketing tools because of its usage by the world. According to the HubSpot report, around 2.5 billion users actively use social media daily. These statistics cannot be missed by any marketer and if anyone is missing this tool for the promotion of its business then it is a big mistake. Social media is of great importance which cannot be underestimated as one cannot think to spend a day without scrolling Facebook at least once a day.…

In recent decades, Australian businesses have become increasingly sensitive to instances of workplace discrimination, harassment and bullying. Whereas not so long ago the bulk of workplace issues and conflicts were typically left to be ‘managed’ in-house, nowadays things are considerably different, forcing CEOs and HR departments…

Stackshare is a Open Source Software as a Service (SaaS) and developer tool site. By developers for

developer ranked by developers. Stackshare is a little-known site and few have tried to source in it.

Well to do this without worry you need gono further than into your bag of tricks and pull out an…

Recruiters today perhaps hold one of the most critical and challenging roles in the organization. With thousands of new jobs emerging owing to rapid technological change and consequent scarcity of good technical talent, attracting and hiring quality talent is a…

Offer to assist with the transition

Always offer the employer or manager assistance with transitioning the job duties and responsibilities to another colleague or a new hire. Place this question within the resignation letter's second or third paragraph. And include an offer to help with the transition inside the resignation…