Chop Chop Curry Pok Email Responses To Candidates

Have you ever been so swarmed with work that you would find yourself forgetting to reply to emails? Or maybe having too many brain farts lately that leave you stumped on even writing them? Well, that’s no excuse! When you make an effort to build a transparent and regular communication with your t...

Quick Tips To Stop Losing Your Best Talents This 2020

Improving the hiring pipeline is one of the most pivotal moves you can make to take your company to the next level. However, modern job seekers are not only interested in the business aspect, but also about the intangibles a company has to offer. Hence, it would be best if you were very tactful w...

Meaningless Words To Not Say To Increase Meeting Productivity

Have you ever attended a seemingly regular meeting that left you feeling utterly exhausted? Meetings are intended to be an engine of productivity in the workplace. They are a way for teams to huddle together to brainstorm ideas, fix issues, discuss future measures/plans and drive positive outcome...

3 Tell-Tale Signs Your Candidate Is Lying

Do you ever find yourself in the midst of interviewing a candidate and you hear something that doesn’t quite ring true? We all know that a lie detector would make our hiring process a whole lot easier and hassle-free, but you cannot just strap your candidates up to a machine (or can you?). For st...

3 Overlooked Qualities Of A Great Hire

Hiring the right talent is one of the toughest jobs in the world, especially if it’s for your team. We often focus on skill sets needed to do a job better and overlook the personality traits required to build a great company culture.Here’s the catch: Being aware of the top personality traits a ta...

Why You Should Consider Mentoring Your Employees

Here's a question to all the bosses, managers, and supervisors out there; have you ever considered becoming a mentor for your employees?#TriviaThursday: As much as 71% of Fortune 500 companies have mentorship programmes. But what is a mentorship exactly? Mentorship is a relationship between an ex...

2 Words We Take For Granted At Work

Growing up, you've likely had your parents teaching you that being polite is essential. But when was the last time you showed appreciation to your team? And, I don’t mean the kind when someone opens the door for you or chopes a table for lunch. I mean the pat-on-the-back kind where you recognise ...

Why Great Leaders Admit Their Mistakes

Everyone makes mistakes — even leaders. To be human means to mess up once in a while. But the difference between good leaders and great ones lies in how they handle those mistakes.Has it ever occur to you that as a leader, your action models to those around you?The problem is, of course, some lea...

Do You Really Need Employer Branding?

For some time, the norm in the recruitment process seemed to suggest that the employer held the privileged role of the job-giver and the potential employee was put in the position of having to jump through hoops and say the right things to land the position. The employer held the power and could ...

3 Immediate Tips to Make Hiring and Retaining Easier

There’re tens of thousands of companies here in Singapore and when it comes to recruitment, the troubles you’re facing are probably low applications and/or high turnover rate. (Why don’t you tell us more?)While the first issue can be solved with recruitment marketing, how about the latter? And ho...

Avoid Hiring Nightmares Before Halloween

With Halloween right around the corner, it’s prime time for nightmares—or is it?Handling the hiring process is not all fun and games. Sometimes, you would have to deal with the hiring nightmares (sadly, part of the job) which can potentially haunt you even after work hours. These nightmares aren’...

Things You Can Do To Win Your Boss Over ASAP

You may have only one career, but did you know you have to play two roles at work? The first is doing whatever you were hired to do (duh, of course). The second, just as essential if you plan on sticking it out with the company, is getting on your boss’ good side a.k.a angkat bola managing up. W...

Why You Should Give Fresh Grads A Chance

Are you looking to grow your team before 2019 ends? Graduation season is upon us, and you know that these fresh graduates are on the lookout for work (we’ve all been there), but would it be worthwhile for your company to hire one? Well, what if more companies focused on the benefits of hiring fre...

Growing a Small Team the Right Way

Regardless of your position or industry, hiring can be such a chore sometimes. Although the concept of hiring is pretty straightforward, going through the process is a whole other story. When your team is small, and no one has heard of your startup, it becomes even more of a struggle. “Shouldn’t ...

Wantedly: The Scouting Guide For Big Wins

How do you go about finding the right talent for a job? If you are like most hiring managers, you would first ask around from the people you have had the pleasure to work with for good referrals. If that doesn’t pan out, you will conduct an extensive external search ⁠— placing ads, investing in r...