We all know the facts even if we try and not think about it all the time. The managers especially don’t want to regard the statistics as it gives them serious head ache. But yes, around 65-85% of your employees, on average, are constantly open for new job opportunities. (Source) And to make it even[…]
Culture is everything when it comes to attracting and retaining people. Naturally other factors have decisive impact but there is a difference from affecting someone in a specific recruitment situation from attracting or retaining someone more long-term. While it’s my experience that many can be lured by a good offer of a high base salary[…]
Recently I was fortunate to sit down with an old friend from high school and we talked about what which things we would have loved to tell ourselves when we were younger. Not necessarily because we didn’t do them but because of sharing our more seasoned perspectives on life in general and which things that[…]
As I mentioned before I often get the inquiry from people in my network, former colleagues and friends, to help them out with their job applications. Most often I hear my advice is greatly appreciated because of my experience of discussing recruitment profiles with multiple companies but also because I’ve worked with researching, analysing and[…]
Having been working in various companies on different levels, as a team member, as manager, head of a business area, as founder of my own startup and part of the management team of a rapidly growing company, I’ve witnessed many different teams take shape, fight hard to reach results and with many successes and also[…]
Productivity is about a lot of things. It is about knowing what you want to achieve, knowing how important it is, dedicating enough time in relation to its challenge and then learning from everything you do. It is not only about making a to-do list even if that is an important thing to do in[…]
I am a fortunate man. I have been given the chance to take part in exciting opportunities and projects from different industries and organizations as employee and manager such as: Ogilvy, Universum, LinkedIn, Connect, Cybercom and now Blocket. I’ve worked on different levels and as of late in management. All this has granted me insight[…]
“Talent experience? What is he talking about this guy? Everyone else talks about Candidate Experience. Why is he calling it talent experience? Sheesh.” Welcome to reality. Most people aren’t your candidates even if you want them to be. Most people are not even considering to become candidates in any of your processes even if you[…]
Den genomsnittliga medarbetaren i en organisation har haft för vana att se CFO’n som den mest konservative beskyddaren av status quo i en verksamhet. Medarbetare uppfattade ”människor och chefer på bolag inom finans- och ekonomiroller” som de minst progressiva i organisationen. CFO´n var den som anställda minst av allt ville bolla sina innovativa idéer med. Den tiden[…]
HR is the new marketing. That’s what’s been preached since a few years back by now. What does that mean really? It mean a set of different things: 1) Content is key to win your ideal candidate 2) The right level of exposure is key to make your content seen. 3) The right way of[…]