Awesome Talents

Offlate, recruiters have gone full throttle using LinkedIn to find top talents. Reliance on job boards have hit an all time low (or will be very soon). LinkedIn happens to be one such platform which is solely dedicated to Professional Networking. The LinkedIn profile killers seem rather mundane, but have a calculated effect on how you are perceived by not just employers, but potential business connectors or partners. It's an art to use LinkedIn effectively. Many talents think just by creating a profile they would be attracting recruiters. It's sad to know it doesn't work that way. It takes a hell lot of patience, time and perseverance to craft a powerful profile on linkedin. We have put together a few vital pointers which will help you take a step closer to your dream job No information. I see a lot of profiles that don’t have any information – no photo, no information underneath each employer, no groups, no education, etc. When you simply slap up a profile and then walk a...

Recruiting is a distinctive career for results-driven professionals. Matching talented candidates with great jobs and companies is rewarding for everyone involved. The world of recruiting is full of endless opportunities, doors flying open and fulfilling success that you could have never imagined. As anyone who’s been in this business of ours long enough already knows, recruiting success doesn’t happen overnight. In fact, if you’re going for quick wins and instant gratification, amigo, you’ve chosen the wrong line of work entirely. The fact is that actually making it in recruiting can take years, and while anyone might have some initial success when they enter the industry, staying on top and replicating that success search after search, year after year, is not just because of innate skills, extrinsic factors or even dumb luck. Sure, these factors might work in your favor once in a while, but really successful recruiters established those stellar track records b...

In the recent past, Product Mangers have become the most sought after. With the digital boom in India, product management jobs have also become a hot trend. There’s never been a more exciting time to be a product manager. Numerous companies are vying for the best of breeds and it's a talent blood bath out there. In this post let's outline a few critical pointers that's essential to eye for a Product Management role. It's worth noting that these are generalized lessons from our recruitment experiences, and are not endorsed by or reflect the views of any particular company's recruitment process. Let's first understand what exactly is Product Management. Product management lies at the intersection of business, technology, and design, combining strategy, marketing, leadership, and other skills with the end goal of launching an amazing product. It’s all about solving problems with technology and how people use that technology. Product management...

Every research, every recruiter, every employer stand ground on one fact - There is intense talent shortage and we are unable to hire on time My question - Seriously?? Are you so lost that you somehow manage to drift away from reality? Have you lost your touch with the Market? Have you been blinded by the fact that everyone around you is saying that, so even i'm supposed to? Whatever maybe your reason to outline that there is intense shortage of talents, here is the bummer - There are huge talents pools out there waiting for you to tap. Just because your strategies & plans failed doesn't mean it's not there. Either change your approach or be struck with your illusion of Talent Crunch. There are a few Smart Firms who exactly do what others don't. These firms employ the Best Brains. Few such firms have never complained, cribbed nor whined about any kind of shortages.They have always got their fill rates on time, everytime. It is ridiculous for employers to ...

What's common between Coca Cola, Nike, McKinsey, Narendra Modi, Angela Merkel and YOU? For argument sake lets not differentiate companies & individuals. Because, it's all about how powerful a Brand is irrespective of Brand being a product, company or person. Many people think that personal branding is just for celebrities & corporates yet each and every one of us is a brand. Personal branding, by definition, is the process by which we market ourselves to others. As a brand, we can leverage the same strategies that make these celebrities or corporate brands appeal to others. We can build brand equity just like them. People want to do business with other people, not with companies. Putting a strong personal brand on the frontline of your sales process can dramatically improve conversion rates. Personal branding is becoming increasingly important because modern audiences tend to trust people more than corporations. Audiences are used to seeing advertisi...

Every human resources director, headhunter, or recruiter will tell you the same thing: the best way to find a job is through networking, which includes social media. The best social media networking tool for professionals is, without question, LinkedIn. LinkedIn is an insanely useful tool for every working person, not to mention every job-seeker and student. LinkedIn has redefined the online version of a resume and having a well organised LinkedIn profile is now essential. We have put together some of the tips that will enhance your Profile: Your headline should be catchy and have keywords and phrases that you would want to turn up in Google search results Fill up all the fields, don't leave anything blank. It has been shown that a 100 % complete LinkedIn profile is viewed in a better light than one with a lot of blanks. Add a photograph to your profile. Profiles with photos are nine times more likely to be viewed. Use a photograph that portrays a professional...

It’s easy to look at the latest overnight success and think – “Wow, look at them, so happy, so successful, so free” – and think that something must be wrong with you.  Because even though you are constantly trying to make something happen, you don’t feel successful or energized, no instead you feel worn out with nothing left to give.  If this is the case for you, perhaps it’s not what you are doing to become successful but rather what you are still focusing on to become successful.  Even the slightest tilts of lost focus is enough to shift our context and frame of mind from where we should be headed to instead a completely different one. So what do those people DO to get through these moments of lost focus?  How do they zero in on the task at hand to become a success? Perhaps it’s not what they FOCUS on, but rather what they DON’T FOCUS on that makes the real difference. The Clock Never Stops A successful person will never focus on th...

We are getting smarter about work and people and the intersection between them. More and more, working people are telling the truth about topics that they were afraid to talk about openly before. One of the stickiest topics is the quality of leadership found in large and small employers. We are starting to tell the truth about the fact that most people in leadership positions are lacking in critical skills. They don’t know how to talk to their employees and they don’t know how to listen. If they received any management training at all, they were probably trained to dole out work assignments and evaluate people. They don’t know how to probe for understanding or how to create cohesion on a team. Here are seven leadership skills most managers lack. Perspective-Taking A good manager can take another person’s perspective, whether the other person is a customer, the manager’s boss, or an employee on the manager’s team. Strong managers can see the world thr...

“Work like hell. I mean you just have to put in 80 to 100 hour weeks every week. [This] improves the odds of success. If other people are putting in 40 hour work weeks and you’re putting in 100 hour work weeks, then even if you’re doing the same thing you know that… you will achieve in 4 months what it takes them a year to achieve.” Entrepreneurs and other company workers starved to see ‘Tesla Motors‘ fail due to the company’s products being seen as an attack on mainstream vehicles. He then launched the electric cars to the public, which had the public and other companies in doubt of the success of ‘Tesla Motors‘. Poll votes and TV hosts belittled Tesla cars and told the public they weren’t worth buying. But he did not care and decided to push through to make it happen. He released an offering to the Public in 2010 for Tesla, and was granted a place in the stock market, there hadn’t been an IPL since Henry Ford and the net-worth grew to $2 billion. This courageou...

Whether it is a classroom, workplace or home. If you want to survive in the fast-paced modern environment, you have to be street smart. You must know how to manage things at a single go no matter you are a man or woman, kid or adult, old or young. It doesn't even matter how many degrees you hold or how much you scored in your graduation or masters. The reality is everyone is part of a rat race and wants to win it. So, here we share five tips to become street smart. 1. Always be confident : Be confident all the time whether you know things or you do not know. Neither people will have the courage to mess with you nor will they take you for granted. Try to maintain confident posture and good body language no matter you are in office or on street. 2. Don't be afraid to say NO : There are many people around us who could not say 'no' to certain things when they should have said that. They later end up regretting over it. If you want to be street smart y...