by Shriram Shanmugham | Mar 13, 2021 | Career Insights, Human Resource
For culture-centric organizations, it is imperative that a prospective candidate’s personality is in sync with existing team and job role. Human personality is not a quantifiable metric. Given its flexibility based on circumstance, candidates can rig personality tests...
by Shriram Shanmugham | Feb 20, 2021 | Career Insights, Human Resource
This question – Will AI take our jobs? – stems up for 2 reasons: 1. Too many PR influenced articles by tech companies that control the narrative of how common people view AI. Google for example has over 1000 press mentions on a monthly basis –...
by Shriram Shanmugham | Feb 13, 2021 | Career Insights, Human Resource, Lifestyle
Rightly matching qualifications and experience do not define happiness at workplace. A sync of people’s innate personalities is imperative. This “sync” is otherwise known as work-chemistry. This is the underlying reason that explains why we are friends with certain...
by Shriram Shanmugham | Feb 13, 2021 | Career Insights, Hiring / Recruiter Insights, Human Resource, Recruiter Series
Over expectations and judgments are the root cause of inefficient recruitment. The following 3 points are indicators of bad recruitment practices: 1. Expecting too many competencies from one candidate – Job descriptions have evolved into scripts. In reality, there...
by Shriram Shanmugham | May 9, 2020 | Hiring / Recruiter Insights, Human Resource
3 easy giveaways in spotting bad managers: 1. They lack vision for their team in the short or long term. These are usually the people who get promoted to managerial roles based on long tenure with the company. To them, management is limited to work allocations, and...
by Shriram Shanmugham | May 2, 2020 | Hiring / Recruiter Insights, Human Resource
Empathy is a recruiter’s super power. Super star recruiters are champions of putting themselves in other people’s shoes. They understand other people’s struggles and aspirations beyond career goals. There is a purpose to why successful recruiters do this....