Why schools need career guidance and assessments
The initiative of having career assessment services in schools brings numerous benefits to students and should ideally be standardized in every country and educational establishment. Even though there is still a long way to go, schools and universities can already start introducing minor changes in order to facilitate smart career choices for their students.
How to Trim the Fat on Your Resume: 5 Common Inclusions You Can Cut
This is a guest post from Lee Anna Carrillo, a community manager at Resumoo. A resume writing service, and career resource database. The number of job seekers in the world has grown dramatically in the past few months. If you’re one of them, you should know that the resume format preferred by employers has changed significantly over the years. Nowadays, knowing what to leave out of your resume is just as crucial as knowing what [...]
Microlearning: How to learn effectively during a global pandemic
This is a guest post from Hayley Biggs, marketing coordinator at Ocasta. Ocasta is an employee-focused technology agency and their mission is to transform how people work. They’ve helped the likes of Virgin Media, Next and Tesco Mobile with their employee knowledge platform. Microlearning isn’t just a nice thing to have, it should be a crucial element of your eLearning strategy, especially during a pandemic. A global pandemic can put an incredible strain on your employee’s [...]
Nature or Nurture: The Effect of Workplace Culture on Employee Personality Traits
Businesses today understand personality – including soft skills like empathy, attention to detail, and conscientiousness – vastly impact an individual’s performance, productivity, and ability to work well in teams. Many organizations spend vast sums on assessing those personality traits, organizing them, and utilizing them in recruitment, leadership, and development programs. But, for many, establishing desirable traits is difficult, if not impossible, thanks to the many large variables in how and why people act the way [...]
4 Essential Personality Tests for Strategic Recruitment
It’s likely your company will already have screening measures in place when hiring new candidates. Screening for factors such as work history, educational background, drug use and criminal background are routine recruitment practice across many organizations. But what about personality? How does your company ensure the candidate your hiring is the best fit the role, your business and the wider company team? By using personality tests during recruitment, you can strategically ensure that you are [...]