How to Hire Globally for Remote Work?

How to Hire Globally for Remote Work?

Remote working recruitment enables businesses to assess a significant, wider talent pool. It empowers organizations to enhance their operations by encouraging the hiring of innovative minds worldwide, accelerating the overall growth and productivity of the company. Besides eliminating the business costs, it also benefits the employees by reducing various expenses they may have otherwise incurred while working in the office. This in turn leads to an improvement in employee satisfaction, retention, and increased productivity. Listed below is a step-by-step guide for you to carry out successful remote working recruitment for your organization: Determine if you wish to go global Before…
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5 Tips For Hosting Virtual Sales Meetings

5 Tips For Hosting Virtual Sales Meetings

The Covid-19 pandemic has compelled businesses to revamp their overall work and operations like never before. From recruitment of new employees to organizing daily meetings, companies leveraged the perks of the internet to maintain the uninterrupted functioning of their business. Evidently, the popularity of virtual conferences and events has witnessed an unprecedented rise since the pandemic. However, the functioning of a virtual sales meeting is undoubtedly different from that of a traditional sales meeting. Below, we tell you the top five tips to host a successful virtual sales meeting! Understand your buyer's needs The fundamental key to any sales situation…
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Are You Ready for the Remote Work Revolution?

Are You Ready for the Remote Work Revolution?

10 tips to ensure a happier, healthier, and more productive workforce Revolution: A sudden, radical, or complete change; e.g. a fundamental change in the way of thinking about or visualizing something (Merriam-Webster Dictionary) Who’d have thought just a mere couple of years ago that remote working would become de rigueur? Perhaps we can go so far as to say that it’s graduated to the status of the new norm. The revolution, in fact, has already happened. Covid has demolished the traditional workplace Let’s admit it: in the past, remote working held a certain nuance of stigma. If you weren’t in…
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Gen Z and the Interview Experience

Gen Z and the Interview Experience

And here we are, at Gen Z... The latest generation of employees to enter the workforce. Unfortunately, this latest cohort tends to get an unfair rap for being “entitled” and “lazy”. Gen Zers are imagined as a slack bunch who’d rather be trekking up a mountain or lying on a beach than doing their actual job (come to think of it, that sounds rather enticing!). But are they? Let’s take a look at their side of the story. Gen Z Explained Unlike digital pioneers – AKA Millennials, Gen X and, to an extent, Boomers – Gen Z is the very…
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The Tale of the Elusive Purple Squirrel

The Tale of the Elusive Purple Squirrel

Once upon a time... there was a purple squirrel. All the hiring specialists in the land tried to lure it in.Only, it doesn’t exist. The end. Instead of purple squirrels, let’s attract the right candidates The moral of the story is that we may start out thinking that the 150% perfect candidate - our purple squirrel - is just sitting there nibbling its acorns, waiting for you to come along. It checks all your boxes - essential, desired, and more - is available immediately, is within your salary range, AND agrees to your terms, no questions asked. The only thing…
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5 Impactful Benefits of Collaborative Hiring

5 Impactful Benefits of Collaborative Hiring

What do Netflix, Google, Facebook, and Apple have in common? That’s right, you guessed it: they’re big on collaborative hiring. Made popular by Silicon Valley, collaborative hiring is all the buzz these days. Maybe your organization has considered it, or even actively embraces it. Perhaps this is the first time you’ve ever heard of it. Wherever you are in your knowledge journey, it’s important to keep up-to-date with the most effective tools and techniques to continually streamline your process. Far from being just the latest fad that’ll disappear when the next novelty comes along, collaborative hiring is truly an approach…
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Rapidly Evolving Digital Transformation of the HR Landscape

Rapidly Evolving Digital Transformation of the HR Landscape

The rapid metamorphosis of HR tools and technologies is jaw-dropping. Gone are the days when processes were dull and lengthy, everything had to be tracked on paper, and delayed communications between stakeholders were par for the course.  Bye-bye too are the space-wasting filing cabinets, weeks to sign-off on everything, and time-consuming methods for tracking and analyzing data. Hello, digital world! ATS, payroll systems, LMS, timesheet solutions, performance management software. You name it, it’s been digitalized. More often than not, it’s also able to be seamlessly integrated with other systems. Our HR forebearers would most certainly be envious. As well as…
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7 Powerful Benefits of Virtual Interviewing

7 Powerful Benefits of Virtual Interviewing

There’s no doubt about it: There’s no doubt about it: the recent boom in virtual interviewing has blasted the traditional hiring process well into the 21st century. In many cases, the application-to-hire lifecycle has been slashed from months to just weeks (or even days), thanks to the sheer immediacy and efficiency of virtual screening. While face-to-face interviews still have a compelling role to play, the quality and speed of hire can be amplified by leveraging virtual interviews in the initial stages. Just some of its potent advantages include: Accelerated hiring Access to a wider talent pool Increased confidentiality Reduction of…
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