Hiring & Retention

Different Generations in the Workforce – What Needs to Click

Studies show that, on average, we spend 90,000 hours of our life at work. Considering this amount, it goes without saying that we would all like to get along with our colleagues; to work in ‘harmony’. Today’s multi-generational workforce comprises employees with a broad range of skills, values, expectations, and behaviors. In 2017’s work environments, forget […]

7 Common Reasons For Losing Your Best Talent

Sometimes you can’t do anything about someone leaving your company. But you might as well learn from these 7 common mistakes that drive the best talent out of your door faster than you can say “Talent”! Losing a great employee is an awful thing. First, there’s the expense of finding, onboarding, and training […]

The Powerful Secret To Solving The Employee Engagement Crisis

Employee Engagement is today’s ultimate business buzzword. It has been for a long time now. In fact, add the word ‘crisis’ to it – it’s being faced worldwide and constantly debated about and researched on renowned sites such as Forbes, Deloitte, Glassdoor, and more. Take a guess: it’s no longer just an HR […]

Analyzing the Resume of a Job Hopper to Analyze the Potential for Hiring

There was a time when people would travel happily in a bullock cart. Times changed, and we had trains taking a couple of days to go from one city to another. In present days, forget those high-speed jets, but we reach from Tokyo to Osaka by covering around 450 km in a little over […]

Write Job Descriptions to Get the Best and not to Ask for the Best

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 […]

Hiring in Japan: The Challenges and Tips – Here’s What You Need to Know

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 […]

Balancing the Negative Aspects of Working from Homes and Remote Working

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 […]

Employee Attrition – How can Companies Address the Job-Hopping Trend among Employees?

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 […]