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Are You Looking for your next Purple Cow?

by FutureTHINK! / Blogs / No Comments / October 1, 2014

Yes, Purple Cow. This was a concept popularized by Seth Godin in his bestselling book Purple Cow. The basic concept of the Purple Cow is to stand out and be insanely different from your competitors. According

If You Were This Manager, What Would You Do to Avoid a Similar Hiring Disaster?

by FutureTHINK! / Blogs / 4 Comments / September 25, 2014

Picture this scenario: You have just advertised for a position you are hiring for your team. Sitting on your desk in front of you is a stack of over a hundred Resumes you have received over

4 Things You Can Do Today to be a Better Manager

by FutureTHINK! / Blogs / No Comments / September 17, 2014

It does not matter if you are a team manager leading a team of 5 or a Division Manager leading an organization of 500, the challenges with team and people management are fundamentally the same.

How Can You Tell Your Candidate is Lying?

by FutureTHINK! / Blogs / 2 Comments / September 16, 2014

One of the segments in my workshops that attracts the most interests and attention is the segment on Reading and Interpreting Candidate’s Body Language. The most common question from participants is: “How can we tell if

Why 21% of Employees in Singapore Resign Within the First Year

by FutureTHINK! / Blogs / No Comments / September 15, 2014

Recently I came across the following in a post on LinkedIn: “Last year alone, S$80 million was spent in Singapore on avoidable recruitment costs. According to the Adapt to Survive study by LinkedIn and PwC, longer

Are You a Forward-looking HR Manager?

by FutureTHINK! / Blogs / No Comments / September 12, 2014

Recently, I had the privilege to conduct a 2-day training workshop for a group of lively, energetic and spontaneous participants from a forward-looking Swiss MNC. This Swiss MNC understood and appreciated the importance of interviewing

HR hates these Buzzwords. Do you have them in your Resume?

by FutureTHINK! / Blogs / No Comments / September 11, 2014

Recently I read an article about buzzwords HR hates the most. HR managers from the US and Canada were asked this question: “What is the most annoying or overused phrase or buzzword in the workplace

This is what Multitasking does to your brains

by FutureTHINK! / Blogs / No Comments / September 10, 2014

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

The 7 Shocking Truths about Candidate Resumes

by FutureTHINK! / Blogs / 1 Comment / September 8, 2014

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

Why You Should Not Hire the Best Candidates

by FutureTHINK! / Blogs / 2 Comments / August 28, 2014

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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