by Shriram Shanmugham | Mar 30, 2020 | Human Resource, Recruiter Insights
Barring exceptions, it is NOT a good idea to let younger people manage older workforce. Consider these 2 scenarios: 1. The ideal case – Where a younger person is in charge, however, things sail smoothly. 2. Experience justifies numerous cases of ego clashes, where... 
by Shriram Shanmugham | Mar 25, 2020 | Career Insights, Human Resource
In an organization where there is lack of transparency, the entire appraisal process is an eye-wash. This is the ugly truth. Middle-management suffers most during appraisal season. Due to lack of clarity from top management, they resort to painfully stretching their... 
by Shriram Shanmugham | Mar 21, 2020 | Human Resource, Recruiter Insights
Resumes do not tell full truth. Inexperienced recruiters avoid profiles with gaps in career progress. They correlate work-experience gaps with unreliability, bad performance, incompetence, etc. This is not only unfair to the candidate in review – for being penalized... 
by Shriram Shanmugham | Mar 16, 2020 | Human Resource, Recruiter Insights
It’s no coincidence this book remained in Top 100 best-sellers list from 1936 to this day! Dale Carnegie’s “How to win friends and influence people” is a MUST read for everyone, however, it is those representing HR department that will benefit most. What the book... 
by Shriram Shanmugham | Mar 5, 2020 | Human Resource
Bad management is the #1 reason for high attrition rates in organizations. Contrary to popular corporate phrase “People don’t leave companies, they leave bad bosses,” high attrition rates are indications of empathy lacking in executive leadership. One cannot deny that... 
by Shriram Shanmugham | Mar 3, 2020 | Career Insights, Human Resource, Recruiter Insights
You won’t get responses to even a fraction of your job applications (except automated emails thanking you for applying). Ever wondered why? It does not matter what credentials you possess. What matters is that you possess those specific credentials that recruiters are...