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Resilience has drawn a lot of attention for the last thirty years, and for a good reason, as this specific capability has proven to be closely related to an individual’s ability to succeed both in personal and professional contexts. Resilient people are successful due to their hard-to-knock-down attitude, their astonishing ability to rise from the […]

Recruitment in The New Era A recruiter’s job was always quite complicated. Various stakeholders, deadlines and the element of predicting future performance, were the main sources that contribute to this complexity. Furthermore, recruiters were expected to possess exceptional customer service skills and target oriented attitude, in order to perform well in their job. This is […]

If Heads, You’re Hired; If Tails, You’re NOT! May the odds be ever in your favour!   In his book “Good to Great”, a highly recommended read by most management professionals – Jim Collins refers to the concept of having the right people “on the bus”. He said that an essential prerequisite for the long […]

It’s all digital It was about two years ago when I received a phone call from the HR department of a company, while I was in my home island, Chios (Greece), asking me if we could arrange an interview within the next few days. I had applied to a job vacancy posted online by this […]

Social media recruitment, often referred to as social hiring or social recruiting, is the use of social platforms as talent databases and/or as the media for placing job ads. Social media recruitment has been more and more extensively used in the past few years, thanks to the high penetration of LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter, but […]

“Millennials” is a term invented by authors William Strauss and Neil Howe in 1987 and initially it referred to those who would graduate from high school in the year 2000 (therefore, they wore born in 1982). Later on, in 1993, the term “Generation Y” appeared in an Ad Age editorial and referred to the demographic […]