Irrespective of the fact that you happen to be a thriving company with grand international ambitions or just another small enterprise that has only recently hit a growth spurt, recruitment does play an integral role in any successful business. Matter of Timing Fresh minds provide a fillip to the otherwise staid office atmosphere, rejuvenating the office culture, refueling the idea tank and bringing around a whole new degree of momentum. All said and done it is a matter of timing. If getting new people on board is what your business needs at the moment, it would require some serious thought. Be it a ...

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Most job seekers are faced with this dilemma at some point in time during their career, a catch-22 kind of situation, meaning – you have to gain work experience, even before being considered for a job, how in the world is anyone going to have any sort of working experience without landing a job in the first place. The Paradox Well, this paradox has been resolved to a large extent by the arrival of startups on the scene, and it is quite possible that your career change draws you to a fledgling startup. Again the best thing about them is, by and ...

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Do you know exactly what a hiring manager is going to ask you in your next interview? Wouldn’t it be really great if you knew these questions beforehand? Well as of now there is no way we can read minds. The next best thing to do is, go through commonly asked interview questions and their answers. Read Interview Questions Chapter 1: An Overview of Common and Perplexing Interview Questions Canned Response There is no point having a canned response for any question, regardless of the type, nevertheless it helps to spend some time getting comfortable with questions that you might probably be asked by the hiring managers, the sort ...

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Ask any young professional and he or she will swear by the invaluable advice of mentors from around the globe, given the reach of present day technology. They find that a trusted, as well as experienced adviser, offers solutions that weigh more than its intrinsic value with respect to gold. Hindsight Bias On hindsight, having travelled the career road a bit, having changed couple of jobs, applied for vacancies against vigorous recruitment drives, all through the journey, it is commonly observed, the guidance of such counselors, tends to stick with the men-tee for a very long time to come, many times ...

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Networking is a key requirement in today’s marketplace, you will hear the buzz everywhere, both online as well as offline, having tried all the tricks in the book, people who have networked brilliantly would tell you there is something amiss that limits their ability to harp the benefits that must accrue as an outcome of their skills and efforts. Mindset of a Connector That something happens to be adopting the mindset of the connector. Now – who is a connector, well he or she happens to be someone who knows lot many folks and has the highly prizes habit of making ...

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