What Hollywood Can and Cannot Teach you About Interviewing
The benefits of Behavioral Based Interviewing You may have seen the famous “Sell me this pen” scene in the recent Hollywood movie, Wolf of Wall Street where Leonardo DiCaprio hands a recruit a pen and urges him to sell it back to him. Hiring managers frequently use this and similar…
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Past behaviour is a great predictor of future behaviour
Perfect prediction has long been the Holy Grail or magic ingredient which Search Consultants have always been hunting for. Many Occupational Psychologists make a good living out of deploying Personality & Critical Reasoning Assessments to help in this prediction challenge. Indeed, there is no doubt that these measures do bring…
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Emotional Intelligence for leaders of tomorrow
The COVID-19 pandemic has really moved the needle for emotional quotient or intelligence in a generation, we would have imagined ever. Emotional intelligence goes beyond the administrative nuts and bolts of being a great leader and emphasizes how your emotions affect others and how you can fine tune the knowledge…
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…So… What about …Agility…
In any workshop we hold the last couple of years, any coaching session we do, the word “agility” keeps popping up in the vocabulary. When we ask the question, ‘what does agility mean for your organisation’, we get a range of responses from blunt looks to answers of ‘we have…
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Green Recruiting
Green Recruiting – the sustainable design of personnel management The abandonment of plastic bags and the increase in electric cars show that sustainability has already arrived in various areas. Are you wondering what this has to do with recruiting? Actually quite a bit, as you will discover in the following…
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These are the characteristics you should look for in a recruitment agency
What’s so nice about making plans is that they can start with dreams. It is perfectly okay to slip behind the wheel of a sporty two-seater in the showroom of a car dealership, knowing full well that what you really need is a solid, practical family car. You’re allowed to…
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TIME FOR *KOSLÄPP
*Swedish expression for letting the cows out on the fields after a long winter inside. My inspiration for this article is from Henrik Mitelman, Columnist Dagens Industri and independent economist/consultant/speaker at key events on macro/financial trends. 2021 In 2021 we probably want to do all the things we couldn´t do…
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COVID-19 New Zealand a year on
Full Lockdown 12 months ago, today our Prime Minister announced to the Country that we were going into a seven-week Alert Level 4 (full Lockdown). This was one of the earliest and fastest full lockdowns in the world and meant that our world had to change immediately. It was a…
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Tips for working from home effectively
Easy to follow work from home tips to avoid burnout Working from home used to be such a joy before Covid-19 hit the world. It would allow employees sleep in, as commute was no longer an issue, they could wear their comfy clothes and do their chores whenever they found…
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