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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.

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...

If you are a Hiring Manager or a Recruiter, for you, a recruitment process is always in the pipeline. And recruiting means beautiful moments when you smile in front of a resume shouting out „Evrika!” or when you scream out with pain when you find no one. You rejoice after recruiting the best person who, after 3 months, tells you it is the job he wanted. Despair comes knocking when the recruitment deadline is overdue and you did not find a single candidate with all the skills required in your team after...

In the last months we felt more and more strongly that our work style is caught in a vicious circle of activities, of the drive for results, of the stress generated by the need of finishing things up. We are also caught in the whole emotional diversity accompanying everything we do. I feel it almost in every discussion I have with my clients. People caught in today’s rapid pace, economic growth offers us a favorable context for developing the businesses in which we are involved. We are hiring people,...

And what does the private sector bring into competition? Ever since the beginning of last year, we are dealing with a new phenomenon. Employees from the private sector turn their attention to state institutions. A good thing I was mentioning in an article I wrote at the end of 2016, when I was talking about the tendencies for 2017. I was saying then that this tendency may be an opportunity for the public system to reinvent itself, using the know-how of these people. For this, there has to be a...

It is impossible not to be concerned with what is happening in Romania these days. Why? Because the public discourse labels the employees who work for multinational companies and not only. We are talking about that employee who always has work and its result in mind. To the most of us, last week meant the disregard and disrespect towards the values which guide us through our lives. No matter if we internalized/identified with them in our families, schools, friends ‘circles, churches, in the companies we work for, they are the ones who...