<strong>3 best employee retention strategies?</strong>
The simple answer is to start hiring the right people. Common sense but easier said than done. Try to imagine each hiring activity and each step in the recruitment process as one piece of a jigsaw puzzle. The more pieces (read: hiring activities) that you can put on the empty puzzle board, you will without […]
<strong>Before you accept the counteroffer read this</strong>
Accepting a counteroffer from your employer when trying to resign, some people say, is like peeing in your pants as it will only keep you warm for so long. Counteroffers are usually nothing more than stall devices to give your employer time to replace you. Some companies only counter to get the employee to stay […]
Imagine you had a crystal ball when hiring people
We all know that hiring people is a calculated risk. But how do you “calculate” the risk? How do you minimize that risk? What are the best tools at hand to help you get it right – before it’s too late? In fact, some hiring managers would be better off flipping a coin to decide […]
Do you really have to fake it… to make it?
Should organizations be concerned with candidates and applicants “faking” when taking psychometric and personality assessments? An almost similar question: Should hiring companies be concerned with candidates and applicants “faking” at face-to-face job interviews? An old boss of mine once said: Fake it till you make it! He argued that the following concepts of behaviour are […]
Job Search Tips When You’re Over 50
Hello Baby Boomers, Ladies and Gentlemen, all of you born between 1946 and 1964 (BE2489-2507) – or about 25% of the world’s population. Still. You are no doubt proud of a career that has spanned at least 30 years and for some of us even more than 40 years. Many decades in the workforce that […]
Reports: The impact of working remote
Are you one of them? One of the thousands or millions of employees across the world who have been working remote, from home, for weeks and months during the Coronavirus pandemic? But what is the impact of working from remote? How does working remote affect your colleagues and employees? Everyone is stressed right now; some […]
