Spring time stands for new beginnings and growth. Are you feeling it? Are you a candidate ready for the next step in your career? Are you a hiring manager or HR professional improving your company's employee journey? Are you a recruiter looking for improvements to your search for the best talents?
I listed some great articles from last week for each of you. How to land your dream job, how to learn from leaving employees and how to find the best talents for your clients.
Candidates
Our research shows the majority (88%) of HR professionals are more likely to hire and proceed with candidates that show off their achievements in a portfolio. In these digital times, creating this online makes sense, but it’s often easier said than done. Read on for some handy pointers to help potential candidates create a personal website that will help to show them off to their full potential, no matter what role they seek:
2. 5 Ways to Land Your Dream Job with These Top Interview Tips
Now is your chance to shine and show the interview panel that you have the personality as well as the skills to do the job and fit right into their culture. But your mind is blank and your mouth dry. They ask you a question you weren’t expecting and you feel your dream job slipping away before your very eyes. STOP this happening with these five great ways to grab the upper hand at your next job interview.
3. Recruiters Will Ask Why You Left Your Last Job -- How To Talk About Your Career Transitions
Recruiters will ask why you left your last job (and probably will ask for more than one past job) because the reasons behind your career transitions reveal your priorities, motivations, commitment, and more. If you left because you felt topped out, then growth is clearly a priority. If you left because another employer opportunistically offered you more money, then you’re motivated by money. If you have left multiple jobs in quick succession, many employers will question your commitment. There are many ways that employers interpret your career transitions so you need to be deliberate and prudent about what you share and how you talk about why you left your last job.
HR
This interview can be the key to solving many issues within the workplace and is a great chance for you to find out what areas your business is succeeding in and what areas perhaps need developing. So, what are the benefits of an exit interview?
2. 6 Hiring Mistakes Startups Should Avoid
Employees are the greatest asset a company has, but for startups, they’re also the most volatile. When you’re building out your team in the early stages, every single hire is a crucial one with the power to massively impact your business.
3. Here's How to Structure Your Interview Process to Maximize the Chances You'll Make the Right Hire
Making a new hire requires a lot of time and effort—which is no big secret if you’re a recruiter! But it’s not just recruiters dedicating their resources to hiring: Everyone from hiring managers and potential team members to senior leaders and receptionists can be called in to participate in some aspect of the interview process. Yet for an activity that touches so many people, interviewing is not always given the respect it deserves.
Recruiters
Few interactions are as potentially fraught as that between job seeker and recruiter. For the job seeker, everything is on the line. The recruiter has the ability to connect the job seeker with the next opportunity which will provide income, benefits, experience, and contribute to the job seeker’s sense of self-regard, career development and accomplishment.
2. Hey Recruiters: These 5 Steps Will Make Sure You and the Hiring Manager Are on Exactly the Same Page
This one is for all of the recruiters out there: Whether you’re a seasoned pro or just starting out, chances are you’ve been in a situation where you’ve spent weeks working on an open role, only for the hiring manager to toss all of your submittals into the “no” pile. Before you start to imagine all of the ways to secure the manager’s imminent demise (exploding box of glitter, compromising viral SnapChat, you get the idea), consider the fact that it doesn’t have to be this way.
BONUS: Tony Robbins: Time for Change
About Timeo-Performance
We were founded with a vision to improve the world of work for everyone
We are in the Skills Business!
Through recruitment, training and consulting, Timeo-Performance provides solutions for increased performance of companies, teams, and individuals. As our clients are in the center of global business and often serve the APAC region, our solutions need to be sustainable in a multicultural and remote context.
Our joint venture with Akteos, the European leader in intercultural training, and partnership with digital learning solutions provider CrossKnowledge have therefore been organic and logical additions to our service. Timeo-Performance has been helping companies in APAC increase business performance since 2008 with offices in Singapore, Malaysia, and Hong Kong.
We love what we do, feel the Timeo-Performance experience!
As busy professionals, our schedules are often filled to the brim with meetings and tasks to complete. We can get so caught up with work that we might even forget our all-important lunch and power through dinner as well. Alas, we can only do so much given the 24 hours we have in a day. While time management is vital, being productive is another matter in its entirety.Enter time batching.
