World over people are concerned about privacy. However the more we want to protect our privacy, the more public we are about our thoughts, feelings, and reactions. Thanks to the smart phone and social media! Should the organization keep a tab on the sleep pattern of its people in leadership roles? Hard work needn’t […]
There are some who are hidden bullies. They make you do tasks which are not your responsibility – can be anything from admin tasks such as booking meeting rooms to answering calls from an angry client. This makes you lose out on precious time and sometimes being seen as either a spineless soul or […]
Seriously? People talk about ghosting in the dating world; how is it relevant in the Recruiting world? It has become a nightmare for recruiters, HR Directors and Business Leaders equally. Candidates just drop off the pipeline without any communication. Recruiters try hard to pick cues during their conversations with candidates and work on these early […]
You have a colleague who has an opinion on everything, knows all, finds faults easily and tries to add value to the work of co-workers and juniors with her comments. You are having a difficult day at work. You need a moral-boost rather than comments, criticisms and worst of all, sarcasm. What do you do […]
You are in a meeting with an objective of taking stock of the progress and making a few decisions about the journey ahead. A participant speaks at length, labours a point to highlight his or her expertise and goes to unnecessary details that add negligible value to the meeting. The long-winding monologue of the person […]
Your colleague steals your ideas, projects those as her own, she is seen in a better light, you do not get credit for your work and you get marginalised. You feel shocked, angry, cheated and frustrated. Some say, your work should speak for itself. You do not know if you should ignore and stay positive […]
Successful people are clear about their priorities. They have a strong conviction in their thoughts and beliefs. They pursue their dreams passionately to bring them to reality. When they start scaling new peaks, the world takes note of their achievements and keeps the spotlight on them. Naturally, they start receiving a lot of comments, feedbacks […]
Increasing number of companies in the western economies are saying that university marks are irrelevant for a hiring decision. They would rather look at skills and attitude rather than academic scores. They do not think, academic scores indicate how well the candidate would be able to perform on the job. What do we do in […]
Technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), cloud computing, blockchain, big data analytics are now out in the world and finding applications in day to day work. Speech recognition based assistants like Alexa, Siri and Google Assistant are commonplace now. Business world has started using bots, cloud computing, platform as a service, various big data analytics tools […]
“Great vision without great people is irrelevant.” said Jim Collins. Organizations compete in the marketplace armed with their competitive advantages. Talent is their unique strength that gets built over a long period of time by conscious efforts of the leadership team and their unwavering commitment to a coherent people strategy. Hiring the right people is […]
Agencies have two worlds to deal with – companies are looking to hire the best talent and at the same time, job seekers are looking for the best opportunity. They earn their fees from the companies and hence their loyalty and priority lie with the employer organizations, referred as clients globally. They make their best […]
Winning takes talent, to repeat takes character, said John Wooden, the legendary basketball player and coach. Organizations have to win consistently and hence, they need the talent who demonstrate the same character each day at work. It is not easy to find people with the same character. HR Teams leverage external agencies and their own […]