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Onboarding Best Practices That Every Business Should Use
Onboarding new employees is an essential part of the recruitment process, and following onboarding best practices is crucial. Skipping this requirement can backfire big time. 35% of HR leaders say focusing on the onboarding process to help new hires feel engaged and be productive as soon as possible works best when it comes to fostering…
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All You Need To Know About My Firsthand Experience With Hiring Virtual Assistants
Finding and hiring virtual assistants (VAs) depends on where you live, what sort of activities do you need to be covered by your Virtual Assistant (VA), how would you expect to interact with them, the level of proficiency in English or the requirements to deal with a specific market. People delegate different activities to their…
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Common Recruitment Challenges in the IT Industry
My position in my LinkedIn profile is a CEO of a team of 25 for several years now (nowadays 45), and yet I still do receive about a dozen emails every week through LinkedIn inviting me to apply as a junior developer somewhere or take on a senior position for an industry that I hadn’t even heard of. Additionally,…
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Effective Hiring Tips (For Startups And Growing Teams)
There are fast-paced startups where execution is mission-critical. Then, there are the startups relying on an ongoing and regular business model – think of manufacturing or an ongoing type of activity that could easily take 60–80 hours a week. The ideal team for an ongoing operations startup might look different from the passionate, equity-focused model. While…
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Key Factors To Consider When Recruiting Front-End Web Developers
If I have to classify the factors that we consider while recruiting front-end web developers, I would break them down into several categories. Different Categories Considered in Hiring 1. Skills The “skills” factor is the amount of know-how you possess, your portfolio, and being able to solve different problems. Depending on the complexity of the…
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7 Useful Tactics To Establish A Solid Team
Every business owner or manager dreams of having the perfect team. But since there isn’t such a thing, settle for the next best — a team you’ve created and carefully trained. So, how do you establish a solid team? Hiring the best people does not necessarily and automatically equate to having the best team. Like…
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Top 10 Interview Questions When Hiring A Content Marketer
First off, freelance marketplaces are underappreciated. I remember I submitted several jobs for part-time freelance writers on Upwork in 2017 and I received a total of ~20 applications. Most of them were spam and automated bot submissions. I remember that posting the same job 5 years ago would have yielded 60–100 applications or about 10x…
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The Definitive Recruitment Process for Top Talent
The hiring process is broken and we know that. Stats were gathered by TEKsystems surveying 13,000 job candidates and over 1,400 employers. The recruitment process is becoming more and more complicated and there’s no tool that fits all needs. I learned that ~14 years ago and I was overwhelmed to learn how tedious and complicated…