Blog Posts

Hiring For Cultural Fit: Why and How To Do It?

We’ve received a lot of feedback from our readers on a recently posted blog post about “Why should someone hire for Culture Fit?”. Now, we realized how “hot” the topic actually is, as we saw how many recruiters are also studying it. As Anja Zojčeska, a Human Resources Manager of TalentLyft did. We enjoyed reading […]

How to Assess Junior Candidates?

Due to the fact that most graduates lack work experience, their assessment seems challenging to recruiters. Of course, when you are about to recruit a graduate, you are not expecting to find the best fitting job skills, so how can you make the best selection? The focus should be on their character and soft skills, […]

HR Tips: Writing a Job Description

Are you among those superheroes working in the field of HR? Have you ever had to create a job ad along with a job description? In this case, the struggle and difficulty of crafting one is more than familiar to you. We know that a job description like any great sales copy, should be engaging, informative and […]

Owiwi the “National Winner” of Greece in the European Business Awards

Owiwi named “National Winner” in prestigious European Competition Owiwi has been named ‘National Winner’ in the 2017-18 European Business Awards, Europe’s largest business competition, sponsored by RSM. We are proud, yet humbled, by this important award and recognition our company and more importantly, our team has received. With that in mind, we would like to […]

Everything changes, and so does HR!

It was the Ancient Greek pre-Socratic philosopher Heraclitus who stated that “everything flows”, meaning that all things undergo change and although sometimes change is not obvious, it is still happening. Today, more than 2,500 years later, nothing could be truer; the way we communicate, the way we travel, the way we work, everything is dramatically […]

HR Trends: Traditional Candidate Assessment vs. Game-based Assessments

It’s time to switch things up! Up until today, traditional psychometric tests for candidates’ haven’t changed in the slightest. Those willing to be ahead of their time already shifted to the state-of-the-art candidate game-based assessments. As an alternative for multiple choice psychometric test, more and more employers tend to shift to fun video-games. Don’t get mislead though, apart from being fun; […]