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 and hiring the right candidates, and had decided to invest in training ALL of their hiring managers on how to interview [...]
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 today???? Apparently HR folks are tired and “fed-up??? with hearing and seeing words such as: - “Out of pocket??? “Deep dive??? [...]
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 2% of super-taskers. The author mentioned that Super-taskers are able to multitask because of an unusual genetic trait. Unfortunately she did [...]
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 if an organisation has 10 employees, it may have between 1 and 5 employees who are not performing to expectations. [...]
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, they are almost always referring to the best skills, best qualifications and best work experience. Some go to the [...]
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 best people they can lay their hands on. However the reality is, someone who is best for another organization may not [...]
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 right prospects that would convert to sales. Well, if you can understand this statement, then you should have no problems understanding [...]
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 just doesn't cut it anymore. What does “Hiring for Attitude??? really mean? What does it really mean when someone says that [...]
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 and experience, in the hope of maximising individual worker productivity. However with the shrinking pool of foreign workers and the [...]
“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 coming from. It was a Retail Supervisor yelling at a Retail Staff who was obviously struggling to do things right. [...]
