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Understanding, accepting, and accommodating are crucial for not just success but to be able to enjoy working in a different cultural setup. Accepting everything can be debatable, but then change is always slow. Even if we wish to change a system, we must first become a part of the system to make people listen to […]

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We all know the importance of having a job description for hiring employees – but what’s is more important is to be practical in having the right kind of JD. The objective of writing a job description should not be to “ask for the best,” but to “get the best candidates, practically.”   As a […]

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Challenges of Hiring in Japan Are you thinking of hiring in Japan? Due to its particular labor force demographics and cultural aspects, recruiting employees in Japan presents unique challenges that you should be aware of. The examples of Microsoft and Amazon’s job advertisements in the U.S. and Japan, given in the article about writing job […]

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Work Away from Home or Work from Home: The Old and New Normals “Make a rule to work from home only in exceptional circumstances,” says this paper of Dartmouth College citing Harvard Business Review. Many of us grew up hearing: “Don’t take your work home,” but all those things have become stories of the past […]

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Employee Attrition – Increasing Trend of Job-Hopping Gone are the days when employees join a company and expect to stay there for their career duration.  According to a year 2016 Gallup report, about half of today’s Gen-Z and millennial workforce, the 20 to 40-something-year-olds, say that they will be changing jobs in the next year or […]

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Behavioral interview questions are the tricky part of an interview, and you need thorough planning and practice to answer these. This article will describe behavioral interview questions and will also discuss examples of such interview questions. Moreover, we will also cover tips to answer these questions, which are targeted to check your behavior in different […]

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Preparing for an interview doesn’t need to be a nerve-wracking experience. You want to put your best foot forward and impress the interviewer. Of course, there will be questions, but you don’t know what kinds of questions you will get. Here comes the STAR Method to help you out with an organized way to answer […]

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  Recently, a survey among employers in the US found that “problem solving” was rated the most important skill for any employee to bring to the job. In the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) Job Outlook 2020 survey, a whopping 91.2% of respondents rated the possession of problem solving skills the most crucial […]

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  Looking for a job online can be a challenging and sometimes frustrating process. Even if – or sometimes, especially if – you think you are well qualified for the position you are applying for, working with a professional recruiter can still boost the chances of your resume being seen by the right people. Here’s […]

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Peter Principle is a concept that suggests that in most organizations, employees usually grow until they reach a level that is beyond their competence level. This means they will eventually reach a level where they cannot perform their duties effectively. You might have been a loyal, hardworking employee at your organization for several years, knowing […]

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