Competition between companies is increasingly intensifying as regards recruiting. Candidates have become customers—consumers like everyone else—who are continually solicited from all quarters. Thanks to globalization, they are two clicks away from their next job and just a short plane ride away from their next career destination...
A pretty peculiar present awaited you this morning when you learned that he was resigning. Still in shock, you’re not sure whether to shed tears of joy or despair...
Managing internal careers? Myth or reality? My first position in human resource management was concerned with managing careers internally. In this position, I remember developing job maps and skill profiles to help employees change positions more easily within the company according to the skills and key competences they were developing.
The corporate clock This morning, while opening the door to your office you realized that it has been ten years (already!) since you came through it for the first time. You’ve just realized how time flies, as if suddenly a voice inside whispered to you: “Help, I’ve become part of the furniture.”
Generation Y is entering the workforce, bringing with it a knowledge of new technologies, creativity, optimism, awareness of what it wants and how to get it.
Did you say retention or detention? The word retention seems to be used more and more in HR jargon, probably encouraged by the alarming predictions of a shortage in the labour force. This term gives a derogatory connotation to an originally positive goal: keeping one’s best resources.
Bad pack! By always posting your offers in the same newspaper or on the same website, you will always end up with the same pool of candidates.To not use various sources, is to ignore the variety of candidates.
What are good reasons for not divulging a company’s identity during the recruitment process?
BLBR1116-MS-B86 co-writer of the writing of the title of a posting which is difficult to read (N-3*) – 542354… Not so long ago, we began elaborating job posting titles, or at least making them original, in order to ensure more interesting returns on postings. This era seems to have evolved since the tendency now is to make them complicated.
Are you looking for candidates or employees? Good candidates don’t always make the best employees…
“Don’t be surprised if we don’t get back to you” The field of recruitment doesn’t escape from the old saying…putting it off today will only make the task more difficult tomorrow. The wind always changes…
Whose fault is it? Many of you blame generalist job sites when faced with the quantity and poor quality of applications received following a job posting…The source of the problem comes in part from the way in which job offers are written