Both new and established businesses can benefit from hiring a corporate communications specialist. A person with this job is responsible for communicating about the company internally and externally. If you have not hired someone for this role, here is why you should consider it.

What Does a Corporate Communications Specialist Do?

When most people hear the term corporate communications specialist, they think of public relations or PR. Although a large part of this role…

About 97 percent of companies are investing in artificial intelligence and Big Data, according to New Vantage Partners' executive survey.   

 This unexpectedly large statistic is enough to scare us about the future of work. Dependency on machines is increasing. It is no surprise that artificial intelligence is taking over jobs. Several reports have already predicted how robots will take over human jobs. Is it something to be concerned about?  

Definitely. Today more jobs are…

A career in the IT sector is always demanding as well as rewarding. Now, IT is indeed a vast sector with lots of scopes. Finding a job in this sector is not tricky, but the industry demands impressive, enthusiastic and skilled personnel. Those, who are not qualified or specialized in their jobs, would find difficulties in pursuing a career in the field of information technology. Among various scopes for perusing a career in the field of information technology, people commonly opt for…

I've been asking recruiters about how they use texting in recruiting. In this post we hear from Josh R. who has a theory that messenger apps may surpass texting.

He writes;

I started texting candidates in 2016. I was a little hesitant at first. Is this an invasion of…

Unless you have an entire team of self-starters, your management duties will include helping keep them motivated. We’ve identified several ways to inspire your team toward excellent performance.

Customize Your Approach

Remember that your team is made up of individuals. A one-size-fits-all approach…

A degree in chemical engineering can open the door to many exciting and fulfilling career options. Many of the positions that are available for chemical engineers allow you to explore different aspects of the industry while playing an integral role in this field. Here are four potential career paths for chemical engineers.

Research Engineer

Chemical research engineers are needed to develop experimental programs using a variety of chemical mixtures. If you choose to work in…

Nowadays, it doesn’t matter if you have a great vacancy up for grabs, if you don’t know how to sell it then people won’t be interested. In fact, you need to make the most of your job adverts to ensure that they stand out in an overcrowded market. Especially as…

I have been privileged to recently attend several Women In Business Network meetings, including a meeting of The Athena Network lead by @emmarundle and, of course, the inspiring Women In Business Expo, held for the first time this year at Farnborough. The rise in this style of connecting women who own their own business, or are succeeding in their…

No longer fulfilled in your current role? Longing for a new challenge? Dread going back to work every Monday morning? – all signs you probably should look for a new job! The problem is, where do you start with it all!? With so much to do day to day – such as holding down a job, maintaining a relationship or dating, maybe it includes raising children,…

An efficient employee performance appraisal can bring a lot of benefits to the employees as well as the organizations. The most important part is getting to know the goals and objectives of performance appraisal. The overall goal or objective of performance appraisal is to enhance the individual goals of the employees along with the organizational objectives. Also, it enhances the skills and…

Day 2 of Sourcecon and the third set of tracks.

First up Combining Sourcing Tools to perform Sourcing Magic by Jeremy Da Costa. TOOLS: SSaR pages, Facebook, Zapinfo, Seekout, Boolean, Infinite Scroll, Scroll It,  Human Predictions, Advanced background Check, Data Miner, DiG, Instant Data Scraper. Hiretual, Amazing Hiring, Loxo,…

Performance management is a nurturing process that seeks to develop employees holistically, so that they are motivated to contribute effectively to the business outcomes. Employee performance management has a methodology that usually starts with employee goal management to distributing appraisal letters. however, each generation has a different perspective towards performance management, depending upon…

Have you ever wondered why and how the virtual data room is regarded as the safest and most secure platform for storing confidential business’ and organizations’ documents? Virtual data rooms have become the new waves that businesses are beginning to adopt owing to the confidence…

In 2019, 99% of companies decided on preparing for the future workforce. Furthermore, 73% of companies expected a significant disruption, says Mercer. Well, 2020 is knocking at our doors. Where we’re stationed at? Do we still have the time to personalize other trends?

Talent management is the new engine for the upcoming economy. With more and more companies looking to thrive in an uncertain situation today, more attention is being focused on the role of talent…

Becoming a contractor can be a great career option for anyone that wants to own their own business and has valuable skills in home construction, repair, or renovation. While there are a lot of benefits that can come with a contractor career, it is also a business that can be hard to get off of the ground. Fortunately, there are four ways that you can prepare when you are looking to start out as a contractor.

Know Your Niche

If you want to be a contractor, there will be plenty…

Performance Management aims at building a high-performance culture in the company. The Performance objectives are often required to be specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-bound, commonly known as SMART.  Through performance management, all employees can track their work progress against the goals defined. You can follow the below methods to create a constructive…

In this technology-driven era, it has become a humongous task to manage simultaneously the need of both the companies and consumers simultaneously. In such a scenario, the services rendered by data analysts are of the utmost importance. A data analyst comes into the big picture for the reason that there is a strong need for someone who can analyse huge chunks of data and perform statistical analysis on such data sets. Even though there is not a substantial difference between the duties of a…

Graduate recruiters! Follow these four steps to make yourself more attractive to today’s top graduates.

Talent is the lifeblood of every business – and graduates are fresh meat. There’s huge pressure for graduate recruiters to bring the year’s best new graduates into the business before competitors do.

The problem is, graduate…