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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.

The New Model of Education Like Yuval Noah Harari, I believe in education. We need education! And I am not solely referring to institutionalized instruction provided by the education system. This is only a fraction of what education means. We need full involvement in the education process from all of us, realizing that the measure is no longer time and that it is no longer confined to educational institutions alone. Education is a continuous process. Each of us contributes, whether we’re giving feedback, judging start-up projects or even bringing...

Lately I have had several recruitment projects for HR Manager positions. That is how I came up with the idea of writing this article. Who am I talking to regarding these positions? The CEO or the GM of the company. He is the person with whom I discuss the requirements of this position, his vision of the impact of the new HR Manager on the business, the organizational culture that he wants, HR processes, etc. He is the person with whom I discuss the requirements of this position, his...

It’s one of the most common questions that I receive from candidates who are participating in recruitment processes. What does feedback actually mean? For some people, it’s a simple “No- you have not been chosen for this position”. And that’s it. For a candidate it represents an important information which helps to close that subject in his mind. This kind of information is useful especially when he’s in active search, namely the moment when he wants to change his job. This way he can orientate towards other opportunities. The...

Most of us probably have in mind the affirmations from our childhoods, being told that a better education means having more success, and for the longest time, that seemed to be an incontestable truth. After the revolution of 1989, we started seeing, thought the models presented in the public space and by the people around us, that having a good education was not what differentiated you. Also, having money did not correlate at all with the level of the degree. Therefore, keeping the motivation to study was an inner fight...

“For how long do we have to deal with training new employees?” I often hear this question and I can understand the frustration behind it. It is clear, in the workforce field employers take on an important role in this training process, as it is directed towards the skills necessary to the company. But I feel the need to look at things from a larger perspective. How do we stand compared to other states in the region or in the world? What is the perspective? Where do we need...

It is 12:25. One of our clients calls me. He urgently needs a Sales Manager. URGENTLY! I do not understand this sense of urgency – I know him, I know his company, he does not rush into action. And emergencies, not once, make you react under the influence of strong emotions, rationality occupying the second spot. We meet. I need to understand the company’s direction, to see if there have been any incidents, I need to understand the situation of the company which determines this emergency. We need to then...