Blog

Gamify your recruitment process for better results

pexels pixabay 278918

Gamification is an innovative approach to engaging the right talent, and it works by encouraging these talents to engage in game-like behaviors and situations in non-game applications and scenarios. It will keep people (candidates) more engaged and make the whole recruitment process more fun, interesting, and creative. It is the application of game elements and digital game design techniques to non-game problems, such as various business and social impact challenges. So, it is companies taking tasks and making them to be more like a game. The selection process will be less stressful and it also can encourage a competitive attitude […]

Read more

What you should not miss in your lifetime

glenn carstens peters RLw UC03Gwc unsplash

A Bucket List is a list of things, goals, and dreams you want to achieve in your life, to do before you die. Making a bucket list will get you closer to accomplishing those things that you want to do. For some people, writing down a bucket list could be a silly thing to do or it could seem like you are wasting your time. But when you see your goals on that list, you will be more focused to reach them. It will be fun to cross them off, because it’s a great feeling to achieve something. It is […]

Read more

Don’t make decisions without big data

carlos muza hpjSkU2UYSU unsplash 1

What is Big Data? It’s an extreme volume of data, both structured and unstructured. It can be characterized by volume, variety, and velocity. Big data is important to companies because the more data they have, the more accurately they can analyze it. More accurate analyses may lead to better decision-making, greater efficiencies, increased risk control, and better results. Companies that are hungry for skilled employees need a streamlined way to find people who can fill open positions, including highly skilled positions like engineers and programmers. All companies face challenges when it comes to finding and hiring the best talent. That’s […]

Read more

Why understanding your company’s reputation is so important

tommy van kessel  sDlQf6f7gc unsplash

By the Empire, I mean a company with a bad reputation. If you are a recruiter or hiring manager for a company with a good brand and reputation, it’s easy to hire people for your team. Almost everybody wants to work for companies like Google, Facebook, Amazon, or Yahoo. But, on the other hand, if your company has a bad reputation, hiring can become an enormous challenge. You begin facing rejected offers, and worse, possible candidates may decline the first interview or refuse to come back for a second interview. A bad reputation will cost time, and money and prevent […]

Read more

How to Recognize the Signs That Someone Is Lying

pawel czerwinski 3DT d9ttbv0 unsplash

If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything. – Mark Twain In this article, I would like to briefly discuss the topic which I consider important not only for recruiters, but for everybody who is a part of the interview process. Surely, I’m not the only one who knows, in practice, the role of “lying” in the process of proper assessment of the candidate’s qualities. Over the years in recruitment, I read through several books and articles about this topic. It was literature that dealt with the purpose, meaning and function of “lies and lying” in interpersonal […]

Read more

The Memory Method Used by the World’s Greatest Detective

emily morter 8xAA0f9yQnE unsplash

Have you ever heard about the Memory Palace? You might have seen Benedict Cumberbatch use it on Sherlock Holmes. Sherlock used one of the best and most effective memory techniques called Memory Palace, the Method of loci, or the mind palace technique. It is a really simple idea, yet it can dramatically increase your recall of faces, numbers, and lists of words. You can learn it too, and even learn things permanently so that you never forget them. What Is the Memory Palace Technique? The memory Palace technique (sometimes called The Method of Loci) is a method of memory enhancement […]

Read more

Boomerang employees are valuable to your organization

brooke cagle uHVRvDr7pg unsplash

Sometimes, the grass is not always greener on the other side for employees, or sometimes, companies are trying to get back their best employees back on the payroll again. There are benefits and drawbacks to hiring back employees, sometimes called boomerang employees. Hiring a boomerang employee could save you time and money for training, and these employees are also valuable to an organization because they understand the company culture and can bring a fresh perspective from the outside. During their absence, boomerang employees can learn new skills. But hiring boomerang employees is not cheap or easy. And not every employee who […]

Read more

How to Attract Passive Candidates

christina wocintechchat com vzfgh3RAPzM unsplash

What is a Passive Candidate? A passive candidate is someone who is not actively looking for a new job opportunity. These candidates are currently employed, and they are often picky about their options. LinkedIn is full of passive candidates, and the total LinkedIn user base has 332 000 000 people worldwide. Every two seconds a new person joins LinkedIn. According to the latest LinkedIn Talent Trends report, 25% of people are actively looking for a new job, so that means that 75% of LinkedIn users are passive candidates. But finding 249 million passive candidates (75% of all users) on LinkedIn is not the […]

Read more

Deep and Dark Web – The hidden world of Recruitment

1NTeq5xgK4ZId4f6TxpxV8w

Every agency or corporate recruiter is using LinkedIn as a primary tool. It’s simple, fast, and you can reach candidates pretty easily. Other recruitment sources are job boards, Google, and so on. But not every great candidate is on LinkedIn, for various reasons, and not everyone can be found by Google X-ray because Google is not able to penetrate the whole internet and all forums. Since technical forums are quite often password-protected and therefore invisible to Google, Bing, or Baidu, you can only locate those by using Booleans and advanced operators. But you cannot always access these websites, because they […]

Read more

Why it is important to follow your dreams

elliotm v9X4 ACaPUs unsplash

Everybody has dreams, but are you going to add your dreams into this graveyard or are you going to turn your dreams into reality? What if your dreams are here for a reason? Dreams and How to Achieve Them Achieving dreams is the best route to happiness and satisfaction. Everybody has a big dream about their lives, but not only one dream; we have multiple dreams and things that we would like to achieve. But the problem is that too many great dreams cancel each other out. We are always trying to do more things at one time, working on […]

Read more