• Motivation
  • 7 steps from an employee to a business partner

    Sometimes, particularly efficient and forward-looking employees break into the leader’s workday routine with a proposal to share their burden for the outcome of the whole business. Such employees possess strategic skills or experience that can improve the existing products or services of an enterprise, and moreover, they feel ready to take a quantum leap in their development, and want to take on the role of a mature business partner, and not just of an ordinary employee. And then, the leader faces a dilemma: to fire such an overweening and brass-necked jumped-up nobody or entrust a separate important business area to this key employee.

  • Recruitment
  • Phone interview: cue card for recruiter

    phone interview

    Screening of the CVs at the first recruitment stage helped you to make a shortlist of candidates whose experience and qualification match the vacancy requirements the most and you are ready to invite them for an interview, aren’t you? Hold it! Save yours and applicant’s time using the phone interview as a tool to screen unsuitable candidates.

  • Interview
  • How to prepare for a job interview

    interview

    A job interview is one of the most common tools used for staff selection and assessment. The purpose of the job interview is to get a reliable evaluation of applicant’s appropriateness for the job s/he is applying for. There are no universally good or bad applicants; there are only suitable and unsuitable applicants for each specific vacancy.

  • Recruitment
  • Marketing Specialist Job Profile

    Marketing specialist is an expert who is responsible for market, customer needs and preferences research, and for increase in the level of company’s sales turnover; who provides the company’s management with recommendations regarding the feasibility of output and sales for certain products or product groups, and the development of the strategy for promoting these products.

  • Recruitment
  • Staff Recruitment: step-by-step guide

    The staff recruitment process is rather complex not only because of the need to find the competent employee but also because the process itself must be optimised taking into account such performance criteria as costs/time/quality. Recruiting a new employee should not be a problem when any of currently working employees informs you of his/her decision to leave, and you must urgently find a replacement. Attracting the best talents from the labour market requires well-thought recruitment strategy tailored to the specificities and needs of your company.

  • HR Management
  • Target-setting: Target vs. Objective

    All business owners, managers and employees that bid to become efficient must have target setting skills. Target-setting has been used for years in large, medium and small businesses to improve manageability and transparency of enterprise business processes, and to plan and monitor staff performance productivity and efficiency.