I recently came across an interesting article about multitasking. The author stated that only 2% of us are truly efficient multitaskers. The rest of us mortals are just trying very hard to be like the

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Did you know that a recent survey of 4000 employers in Singapore revealed that virtually all of them (99%) say they have between 10% to 50% bad hires in their organization? What this means is that

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Do you always seek to hire only the best candidates? Almost everyone wants to hire the best candidates out there. But is this really what you should be doing? When most interviewers talk about hiring the best,

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I cringe every time I hear HR folks, hiring managers and recruiters say they need to hire the best people. Everyone these days seems to be so pre-occupied with wanting to find and hire the

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This statement was made by a Marketing Guru recently in one of his Facebook posts. He was talking about how companies and marketing folks are still getting it wrong when it comes to getting the

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 I keep hearing people say that we should all hire for attitude. But is attitude all you should be looking for? The term “attitude??? has been used in such a general way that it simply

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This article first appeared in the TODAY Newspaper on 22 April 2013. Productivity has conventionally been viewed from the perspective of individual contribution. In other words, organisations hire the best candidates in terms of skills, qualifications

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“Hey!! Why do you put the things like that!?!?? You should put these things into the bag and then put the bag under the table!!!??? I froze and turned my gaze towards where the commotion was

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A couple of days ago, I was talking with a friend of mine and she mentioned that she had just hired 2 new employees recently, after having interviewed 10 candidates. She also said that the

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