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Is this the reality we are going to have to get used to? Women who are housewives or work in subsistence agriculture? Women who choose not to become mothers because that inevitably means giving up a career/a profession? NO! I don’t think that this is the reality that we have to accept. But we have to talk about it, and I agree with a sociologist and good friend: ‘First of all, women have to talk about it!’ It is the personal experiences that come with all the turmoil that...

What challenges do companies face on the labour market? Companies are facing the same difficulties this year. First among them is the labour shortage. For manufacturing companies in particular, the need for skilled staff is high, especially in large, industrial cities where cost pressures are high. They manage to meet this need partly by hiring locally, by extending the area up to 100 km around their location, depending on the infrastructure (providing transport service), but also by hiring foreign workers, especially from Asian countries (in 2023, we had a...

A certain shopkeeper sent his son to learn about the secret of happiness from the wisest man in the world. The lad wandered through the desert for 40 days, and finally came upon a beautiful castle, high atop a mountain. It was there that the wise man lived. Rather than finding a saintly man, though, our hero, on entering the main room of the castle, saw a hive of activity: tradesmen came and went, people were conversing in the corners, a small orchestra was playing soft music, and there...

We have witnessed lately, in different contexts, the increasing presence of people with narcissistic tendencies. Being a psychologist helps me to be able to identify them and to follow them, as an observer, to see their behaviours and their impact on the functioning of teams. Their number has increased in recent years. They remain a minority in terms of percentage, I have not seen them exceed 10-15% of a team’s total numbers, but sometimes that’s enough to undermine the functioning or unity of a team. According to the DSM-5:...

The end of 2022 presented us with a picture of the labour market in 2023. After October – reserved for budgeting and major decisions – November began to feel like the month when actions for implementation kick off. Much faster than in other years, but 2023 is also proving atypical. In fact, this is the reality we have to get used to – change and the need to innovate around every bend we take. What does the labour market mean for companies in 2023? Organisational realignment: posts removed...

First of all, with remote working, there are no more borders. Romania is a valuable market. We have clients – companies from Germany, France, Luxembourg, Belgium, USA – who come to us with the following requirement: “we need talented people, who are comfortable with English, with middle or senior level experience in the following specialties”, and here you can include any role that can be done remotely, including managerial roles coordinating small teams. And if we talk about top management positions, the hybrid model, 3 (on-site) with 2 (remote),...

If you are looking for a new employee or job today, the market looks different. The reality of jobs and the needs of employees and employers have shifted. I have been in recruitment and executive search for 21 years, but I can say that this is the biggest change I have ever seen in the market.   What are the signs of these changes? The questions from candidates have started to sound like this: Which workplace model is it – 3 times 2 or 2 times 3? –...

An elderly carpenter was ready to retire. He told his employer-contractor of his plans to leave the house-building business to live a more leisurely life with his wife and enjoy his extended family. He would miss the paycheck each week, but he wanted to retire. They could get by. The contractor was sorry to see his good worker go & asked if he could build just one more house as a personal favor. The carpenter said yes, but over time it was easy to see that his heart was...

It is becoming increasingly clear that we are moving towards a digital economy. It is called ‘Industry 4.0’, where data and data analytics are becoming the central elements of the economy. We are talking about the digitisation of products and services offered, digital business models, consumer interaction and profiling. We have vertical and horizontal digitisation and integration of the value chain.  What do we use? Mobile devices, sensors, 3D and 4D printing, augmented reality, location sensing technologies, Internet of Things platforms for real-time monitoring, Cloud, Big Data analytics and...

Being strongly action-oriented, employment has entered a process of analysis and redesign. What is the reason for this? Working from home and teleworking have brought us to the situation where we have understood that some jobs can be carried out at a distance, with the latest technology and instruments used, writes Claudia Indreica, expert in personnel recruitment, with 20 years of experience in the field, in an analysis collected by Edupedu.ro. Other jobs require a mix, a hybrid model, which leads us to the 3-day telework model and 2...

There was a man taking a morning walk on the beach. He saw that along with the morning tide came hundreds of starfish and when the tide receded, they were left behind and with the morning sun rays, they would die. The tide was fresh and the starfish were alive. The man took a few steps, picked one and threw it into the water. He did that repeatedly. Right behind him there was another person who couldn’t understand what this man was doing. He caught up with him and...

  We are about to close an atypical year that started off with a head start and intense activity in January, February, even March – until the lockdown imposed mid-March pulled the break. Introduced more as an anticipatory measure of protection in a context of lacking information, the lockdown has thrown us into a new reality. Europe realised just how vulnerable it is; having constantly chosen the scenario of minimal costs, we woke up to the fact that we are dependent on China and India – on Asia in...

We will remember 2020 as the year that changed radically the way we work. Work from home was the first step… and it came suddenly, without any adaptation periods or reasons to worry about its level of acceptance, without any time to calculate the productivity and so on, we all just went over to working from home. But let us see the glass as half full. This time has helped us learn new behaviours, some of which… we would like to keep and turn into habits. Through experimenting, we...

We live hectic times, when decisions taken within 30 minutes strongly impact companies. With minimum analysis, with ordinances published in the Official Gazette 4 hours earlier, with people who can help you or not, you must take a decision. You have no other options. We have run out of time! The economic situation is under extreme pressure. We have not experienced any economic shutdown so far and, as such, we have no history to relate to. We started from a world health crisis and we ended up with an...

  We are at the end of 2019, full of emotions going from excitement to despair, from great winnings to disappointments. But they all have a purpose! If today, we are more balanced than yesterday, if we make better decisions, it means that 2019 helped us to mature. Just like every year, we have a symbolic little gift for you.😊 We’ve prepared a short story that has a powerful message, and from which I am sure you can learn something valuable…because, learning is part of our reality. Stories on the other...

Without realizing it, we are going through times that demand change. And not any change, but the change of the organizations in which we operate. Being inside these organizations – we realize that things are no longer working as they used to, that we have to make changes but we don’t know what to change and how to do it. I felt this during the interviews with candidates for positions from middle and top management. Some change the job and implicitly the organization because they do not have the...

I meet with one of our clients, a very open and receptive person to what is happening in technology, in the market, and who is constantly aware of the economic evolution. In other words, someone who is exposed to a lot of good quality information. We discuss about the profile of an operational manager in the industry in which he activates. It is a very demanding industry, so the profile of the successful man must have the skills in the field but also the resistance and the necessary energy.