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 the last week in response to the position you have advertised. As you look at the stack of Resumes, … Continue reading If You Were This Manager, What Would You Do to Avoid a Similar Hiring Disaster?
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. It does not get any easier with a smaller team. All you require is a couple of difficult employees or … Continue reading 4 Things You Can Do Today to be a Better Manager
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 a candidate is being truthful or not???? My answer is always this: “It’s very difficult. But there are specific … Continue reading How Can You Tell Your Candidate is Lying?
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 time taken to find the right candidates in 2013 led to unnecessary recruitment expenditure. The report also found over … Continue reading Why 21% of Employees in Singapore Resign Within the First Year
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 … Continue reading Are You a Forward-looking HR Manager?
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 … Continue reading HR hates these Buzzwords. Do you have them in your Resume?
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 … Continue reading This is what Multitasking does to your brains
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 … Continue reading The 7 Shocking Truths about Candidate Resumes
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 … Continue reading Why You Should Not Hire the Best Candidates
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 … Continue reading The Right People™
