There are a lot of factors that will determine whether or not you’ll end up securing the job you’ve been eyeing for some time. Some of these factors may include your skill level, confidence, your curriculum vitae, and experience. But most importantly, your level of preparedness can also work in your favor. Below are the four things you can do to increase your chances of landing a job every single time you apply for it:…

Technology has seen considerable changes in optimizing tasks like recruiting, training, and employee management. From hiring chatbots, video interviews, to virtual reality training, here we are discussing few HR technology trends to keep you on the track of 2019:

1. Natural Language Processing…

Over the last few years, recruiting is driven by innovative technologies and strategies. Recruiters have become eager to improve efficiency by doing more in fewer efforts.  Hence, artificial intelligence has been introduced to automate and streamline the recruitment process. Diverse and unbiased recruitment plays a vital role in building a talent pipeline. Thus, these objectives are on the priority list of recruiters or HR professionals.

Diverse…

When applying for a job, you might only focus on editing your CV. However, your covering letter could be the deciding factor for a hiring manager.  

Indeed, some hiring managers may not even…

Screening resumes and finding the best among them is considered one of the most tedious tasks in the recruitment process. It has been a manual process for decades. Now AI has challenged this traditional approach and automate the process with much higher accuracy. With AI it is possible to screen thousands of sales professionals and other pros in a few seconds.

AI for Resume Screening

As per the …

Are you looking at changing careers? Does a job in insurance give you hopes for a successful life change? Forbes says even when you have no experience in the field, you can show employers that you have a lot to offer. We give you four tips to help you make the switch in this blog.

Explore Your Career Options

Insurance is a broad industry with…

The Infographic resumes are made with the use of the graphic design elements which are differing from the traditional resume styles. In traditional resume, there is only use of the basic text which is listing the information from the top to bottom. Whereas in the infographic resume you will find the layout, icons, color and the font styling for organizing the content.

Updating the CV is one of the most important things that a candidate must do. It is the one that mentions all the achievements, strengths, and professional ethics that an individual attains. If someone is on a job hunt, the CV is something that would make it successful. One must always keep it in mind that the CV must be updated regularly, and nothing should be missed out.…

Writing your first CV or updating an old one probably feels like a daunting task that will take hours or even days to complete.

There is a massive amount of advice you can find about writing CVs, whether it’s how to make your CV stand out or five different templates that will get you an interview. We’re spoilt for choice online – but this can make it even more…

The recruitment process is not an easy job. It includes many parameters such as skills, experience, position in candidate selection and onboarding. Recruiters usually receive plenty of resumes each day. Hence, it becomes difficult to sort all those and arrange as per the desired criteria.

This process is one of the pillars of company’s growth. Hence, enhance…

HR industry has seen a lot of modernization in the past few years. Thanks to technology which keeps on creating waves in the market with its new innovations and trends. These ideas have solved the bottlenecks of traditional HR practices in order to streamline all the activities involved in recruitment and related workflow. Each process has become faster and resulted in better efficiency and productivity.

Initially, the staff used to go through piles of paperwork to look for an…

We get trapped into the short view.  Someone resigns and we've got to fill that position now.  Something changes in the business and we now have an urgent need.

No doubt, we are under pressure to fill positions in a lot of cases.  The short view.  We need to get this done now, or else.  But recruiting is really about the long view.  Building a great business doesn't happen in the short run.  It happens because of great work done over a long period of time.  Consistent effective…

The candidate pool for any search is constantly changing.

An available candidate accepts a new position, no longer in the pool.

Qualified potential candidate who won’t respond to new opportunities because they are happy where they are has a sudden change and is now open to considering a change, enters the pool.

Candidate with too little experience crosses that line so they now have enough, enters the pool.

The candidate pool is a living breathing thing.  Effective…

Resumes are used to find reasons to eliminate.  After that, they are used to find reasons to separate.

So look at your resume and try to eliminate reasons to eliminate.  Job hopping is a good example and is consistently used to eliminate.  It takes time and diligence to avoid that one.  Others, like grammar and spelling errors or confusing presentation, can be easily fixed any time.

Reasons to separate are harder.  Take care of the reasons to eliminate first and then look for…

Your cover letter is something which presents your personality, qualifications and intentions and your interest for that particular job. It is made in a very appealing format. You can say it is the very first chance to create impression on the recruiters. It is believed that if you make your resume very personalized it will definitely indicate that you are very serious about your job role and you are searching it on a serious note. Though your resume will help you get the job and position…

Why You Are Not Getting Interviews (Even with All That Manger Experience)

As a principal in a national healthcare recruiting firm, I have read thousands of resumes. Some are good, some are excellent and some are just plain bad. The quality of the information you provide to prospective employers or a recruiter has a huge impact…

The resume objective is proposed to show potential managers your capabilities for the job and your knowledge level in the field. What was once observed as a key approach to catching everyone's eye of hopefuls is currently observed as obsolete and abused.

If you’re giving out resumes and not getting many calls to interview, there’s a…