Accountancy as a career provides a variety of different work, contact with people, high pay and myriad opportunities to work abroad. Accounting services are needed in all sectors of the economy and once qualified, people can either work in firms or set up their own practice. The job description for an accountant demands financial expertise to advise management in the decision making process for optimal productivity and whilst roles might change depending on the field of operation, an…

Keeping HR running smoothly is a serious challenge. Switching to electronic personnel files can help boost productivity in a number of ways.

Human Resource departments are incredibly important to any organization. On any given day, your HR team is working on a variety of responsibilities and dealing with a ton of paperwork. With that much…

Love it or hate it, email is here to stay and so are those lame sign offs. You know the ones, the signatures that make people cringe and clog spam filters or worse make the same corny joke over and over. Are you guilty of any of the…

The CEO of Uber recently posed one of the most important questions leaders can ask about their own organizations.

Appearing during the first week of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Travis Kalanick was asked about the future of Uber. He focused on Uber Eats, an on-demand food delivery service being quietly rolled out in select cities.

Colbert, in his patently playful manner, acted as though he didn’t understand. How could Uber effectively…

It only takes a few cowboys (and girls) to change people’s perceptions of a profession. Head over to Google, type: “recruiters are…” and take a second to look at the search predictions. The results don’t make for great reading (although recruitment is not alone). For the thousands of great recruiters there are a select few that continue to damage the industry’s…

Recently, a new scientific discovery was made, which was that a fluorescent sea-turtle of the Hawksbill variety was discovered in Papua, New Guinea. I haven't been to Papua, yet, but it is on my 'bucket list'.



Apparently, scientists had never previously conceived the idea of a fluorescent sea-turtle, although various corals, sponges and other…

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My name is James Chmielinski and I am a believer of passion and performance.

 From an early age, I was competing on baseball fields and the performance + competition bug has never left me.  I want to be the best.  I can't help it but the grind can have its downfall.  When you are the only one in the room competing.…

It’s a pretty hefty claim to say “I have the best onboarding program.” It might be a fit for your company, but what about the candidates and new hires you bring to the team? If they are your ideal employee (i.e., fits in with the team, works well with…

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Here is a Shakespearean riff on the recruitment process.

The Bard: A Surprising Source of Hiring Wisdom

To those who have been mentally scarred and tortured by studying Shakespeare at some point in their school or college…

When you Google your name, is LinkedIn among first links that appear? If not, then you absolutely must consider creating your professional image using LinkedIn ­- a powerful tool for getting hired today.

Compare a having both a resume and LinkedIn profile to a winning partnership, where both sides are in harmony with each other. Each part is integral,…

If you’ve been consciously following Sourcing Adda (@SourcingAdda) then you’d know that we have shifted the well - received WhatsApp Group Chat discussions on to the Hike platform. This is to improve the engagement and experience of our fellow community members. In addition we also make an effort to give our members the opportunity to come up with topics that they would like to discuss.

In view of that…

#AskHR is an initiative started by Applicant Tracking System, where we reach out to Talent Acquisition professionals and discuss with them about the most burning issues of recruitment world. To start with, our discussion topic is  - “Should Companies Blacklist any Candidate?”. We asked what could be…

My most recent publication on Linkedin titled ' Diversity & Inclusion on your Linkedin Profile?' aims to show how Google became the largest Diversity & Inclusion company on the planet. Not in the way you would have…

Looking for a way to lower attrition levels and encourage company-wide loyalty? Want to improve productivity levels among your employees? Here are some ways video conferencing can help make that happen:

 1. Attract Great Talent

According to B2B Marketing’s “…

What are you willing to do to make your resume stand apart from the pack? Would you plaster your face on a giant billboard? Drop off your application in costume? In many lines of work, creativity gets you points. However, it’s important not to go overboard. 



To make your resume…

Everybody has them. Every organization has them. As the global workplace we call them by many names. But when we refine them to their roots they are all quotas. Salesmen are told they have to sell so many units. The rank and file are told they must produce so many units per work shift. Customer service is told they must handle so many customer calls per hour. These are quotas. If it looks like a quota, acts like a quota or smells like a quota it is a quota. So that brings us to the basic…

Are you a Recruiter looking for talent online? It didn’t use to be some years ago, but now searching for online resumes on Google is a bit of a pain. We need to use advanced operators (intitle:resume OR inurl:resume) and add keywords. Then, we need to exclude job posts (-job -jobs -careers …). Need to exclude resume…

In the digital age, references seem quite easy to obtain.  An employer can simply log onto LinkedIn, read the bevy of recommendations and move on.  Not so fast.  Those recommendations could be friends, family and even strangers with nice things to say about the person.  They may not represent the candidate's work style, ethics, or values in any way.  The old way of doing…

This is part 2 in my Fall Sourcecon roundup, highlighting the presentations at Sourcecon Oct 2015.

The 2^nd Keynote was Chris Westfall’s “Get to the Point, Secrets of the New Elevator Pitch.”

As you can imagine he is trying to help us create and use better candidate messaging. Some of the element she…