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10 things to keep in mind during your first month at a New Job You will not know it all no matter, how experienced you are. Be ready and willing to shed the old skin. It will be overwhelming. If it isn't, then chances are that you are not stepping out of your comfort zone and there's no growth there. Is it?

  Empower and Engage your Remote Workforce  Since we are all going through the coronavirus outbreak, and most people are working from home. So the organization needs to effectively manage people's performance, but the principles are really quite the same as if you had people next to you or in your office to manage. Because in todays’ world you do not want to be a micromanager, people don’t want that. They are looking for a coach, they are looking for direction and they want to allow them to work in their own way. Obviously, people will need to meet deadlines, need to contribute, need to be productive and that’s where the challenges are for the people who are working remotely as compared to in the office. Here are few tips for HR managers, how to oversee and empower your workforce remotely: Plan First, Action next :   Before your team starts working remotely, you must plan what could be done to replicate the office experience and stay productive. You can create a document ...

With many sector units ready to shrink dramatically in India, the pressure of employment falls heavily on the startup within the Private sector. Big corporate do have stringent  recruitment  policies. Reputed corporate players do require highly skilled individuals. Companies establish relationships with a handful of specialized talent. Not just technical skills, they need employees with polished personalities, good communication skills and other soft skills. India is a young nation and hence there is a demand for  niche skills . Not just corporates, there is a demand for  niche skills  in every sector of the economy. Despite the gap between a demand and availability of  Job opportunities ,  job-seekers  have their own priorities. The  Placement agencies  too can help  people to find the best job in startups, according to their skills. The People who can wait, do wait for better opportunities to come their way. On the contrary, there...

We all know that the basic purpose of an HR consulting and recruitment agency is to help job seekers find new roles, while helping companies find the perfect person for their open positions. Unfortunately, very few people realize all the other benefits that come with using a agency. Partnering with a recruitment agency can be highly beneficial not only to your hiring managers but to your company as a whole.

What is best practice for interviewing during the COVID-19 outbreak? In order to limit trips to office, an option for hiring managers is to replace in-person interviews with phone or video interviews over the Skype / zoom / whatsapp. If in-person interviews are highly preferred, follow the for social distancing. Don’t shake hands, sit 6-feet apart and make sure your interview space is clean with wipes and hand sanitiser readily available. Please contact your #mintskill recruitment partner if you need more guidance. What are your tips for video interviews? I have personally been on both ends of video interviews and have no issue with them at all. It can be a quick way to get someone interviewed while still getting a feel for who they are and how they present themselves. It's also cheaper if the candidate is not local   Here are a few tips that we would like to share with job seekers when conducting video interviews: Here are suggestions for job seekers who will be doing more video ...

There are a lot of steps that go into a hiring process – whether it’s creating and posting your job on job boards, screening resumes, conducting Telephonic screening, performing in-person interviews, roll out a job offer, closing the deal and all of the communications and logistics that happen in between all of those steps. But while you and your team are probably very familiar with the details of the hiring process from this one perspective, the job candidates you’re evaluating are seeing your hiring process from a totally different perspective on the other side. The questions you should be asking yourself are… Are you providing as great an overall candidate experience as you should be? Are you providing a positive, that will leave the best candidates wanting to work for you, or are you only doing the bare minimum as you evaluate job applicants – without any thought of their candidate experience? Since top job candidates today have likely “know it all”, therefore, it takes some though...