Itâs 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, itâs a simple âNo- you have not been chosen for this positionâ. And thatâs 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 heâs 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...
âFor how long do we have to deal with training new employees?â 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 â 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 companyâs 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 âEvrika!â 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 todayâs 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 âcircles, churches, in the companies we work for, they are the ones who...