Articles by Claude Pagès

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Agriculture: Recruiting via work simulation exercises

The French national employment agency (ANPE) presented an original method of recruiting in agriculture. The method is based on exercises that simulate work situations...


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Telecommuters more productive

More than three-quarters of executives stated that the productivity of telecommuters is the same as or better than that of regular employees...


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Recruitment by simulation

For its sixth store in the Paris region which opened a year ago in Franconville (a Paris suburb) Ikea turned to an atypical hiring method. Three quarters of the 420 employees at the new store were recruited according to a “recruitment simulation method".


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Google’s carrots for attracting the best

If Google is the best search engine in the world, with 8 billion indexed pages and 250 million requests per day in 35 languages, it’s machine for recruiting and developing the best talents works through a sophisticated cocktail of work conditions and benefits reserved for the stars. This cocktail of work life conditions aims to develop creativity.


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Candidates talk too much for 36% of recruiters

Talking too much is the most common mistake job candidates make according to recruiters who participated in the 9th edition of the quarterly Executive Recruiter Index, published by Kom/Ferry International.


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Job uncertainty: unstable life for the young European

Constant job uncertainty for Italian graduates; In Spain: Graduates in a state of permanent instability; In France: young people against the first employment contract.


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