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Wednesday, July 17, 2019

How To Write Rejection Letters To Candidates


Rejection as it is not easy to digest and hence, many companies abstain from sending rejection letters. But, as far as candidates are concerned, they do wait to get a reply from the recruiter they apply to and are excited about. Many times recruiters feel awkward kind of to let the candidates or applicants know about their rejection in passing through the recruitment process. But, many surveys have already brought this fact forward that candidates do expect the employers to reply back even if it is a no.
Apparently, not replying to a candidate might just affect the brand value of a company service or brand. So, how to go about it and convey that no in a way that the message goes across and your brand value is also untouched. Here are a few types of rejection letters that you might choose to send to the candidates or applicants you have decided to say no.
  1. Short and simple – This sort of letter is crisp and clear with a simple message letting the candidate know that they are not selected and that there's always the next time. The letter though direct and blunt needs to be drafted in a way that the candidate does not feel offended and takes it as a genuine response. This letter is common for all the applications.
  2. Personalized - Personalized messages bear the name of the candidate and does convey the exact reason behind not hiring them thus helping them work in that area and grow. It is not a letter that criticizes or discriminates but highlights what you wanted your candidate to have. For example, if you are hiring a candidate with experience in a particular area and a candidate was rejected because he/ she does not have that, you may put it across stating that you were looking for a candidate with experience in so an so area.
  3. Lengthy - At times short letters don’t go well, so a lengthy letter works better particularly when the interviews are conducted on a video call or phone. These letters need to have a line of appreciation for the candidate for taking their time out for the same other than putting the rejection message across.

Here are a few tips to consider while drafting that rejection letter. Primarily, rejection letters should be sent only before the selected candidate accepts the offer. Do mention about future possibilities in-store with the organization. Do praise for the qualities worth consideration and don’t extend the conversation further. All these tips could help you communicate with the candidate about their rejection in a way that is not offensive and maintains your brand's value too.

*Sourced from the Internet


Monday, June 24, 2019

How Global Companies Are Providing Work From Home Opportunities To Work From Anywhere In The World


Work from home is not new in India or anywhere in the world. You do get many opportunities to work from home these days. But, it’s usually within the city, state or at the most within the country. What many of us aren’t really aware of is that there are many global companies that do hire from outside the country as well. So, if you are for example based in India, you could be working for a country in the USA from your home in India. Though there are other countries also which offer work from home opportunities across geographical borders, the USA does top the list of them all. As far as the pay scale is concerned, it does vary a lot. Let’s have a sneak peek into five of the global companies that hire worldwide.

  1. CCI Call Center International 500
A global call center outsourcing company, it hires people from across the world having fluency in different languages, hence from across the world.
  1. Brain Mass
This online opportunity is for Master’s degree and Ph. D degree holders as it is into online tutoring. It hires from around the world but pays in Canadian dollars. The company pays a certain percentage for answering questions around a particular subject.
  1. Amazon’s Mechanical Turk
Based out of US, Amazon’s Mechanical Turk hires people from across the world including India and is into (HITs) Human intelligence Tasks. Also, known as one of the original micro job sites, it pays a set of the fee to people who work to complete set of these tasks. The payment is done in US dollar, Amazon gift certificates and even in Indian Rupees based on the location.
  1. Accutron Global
The company is into transcription and hires part-time typists on contract to transcribe meetings, interviews, conference calls and more for finance business work. The company pays under around $ .005 to .006 per word for the work, which in-fact is quite lucrative, if you’re based out of India and working for them online.
  1. Covance
This is one organization which has a wide-spanning network of over 10,000 employees spread across over 25 countries working from home. It is a research organization into biopharmaceutical contracts. The only catch is that the work does involve 65% of travel across particular locations like Europe, Canada, and USA.
The aforementioned organizations are just a random few while the list is quite long and is ever increasing as technology is eliminating the geographical barriers and working across borders is becoming common day by day.

*Sourced from the Internet

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Tuesday, June 11, 2019

The Business Benefits Of Hiring Remote Staff


The world is far becoming a global village now with the internet as its key driver. Work from home is also a perk that many companies offer to their employees, on once in a while basis. But, as the winds of change are blowing, they are bringing along the concept of remote hiring. Though, it’s a topic for debate where people to talk about working at a centralized space for optimum production and collaboration.
A recent prediction report of hiring managers suggests that over 35% of the staff hence forth is going to be remote and the cherry on the cake seems to be the reference of the World Economic Forum about remote working. It says that remote hiring is going to be “one of the biggest drivers of transformation of business models”. No wonder, this mode of hiring is gaining pace already as companies are getting to understand the pros of it.
Let us run down some of the benefits of remote hiring of staff

Wider Reach for Talent – Hiring managers and recruiters are well aware of the fact that location does matter when it comes to hiring. So, many a times it’s possible to miss out on talented professionals due to the location limitation. With remote hiring you can look into a wider pool of talent because the location does not remain a constraint hence giving you a wider pool of talent to dive into.
Productivity Upsurge – Obviously, when employees get the convenience of working from home, it does affect their output in a positive way. The time that goes into commuting, particularly in metro cities does affect negatively. Being in the comfort zone provides for more flexibility and for women particularly with infants or school goers it does prove a boon of sorts, if managed well.
Rise in Retention – The pros as compared to cons are much more and therefore the retention graph for remote working does point northward. The pros include working from anywhere and many a times even flexibility in timings. It save a lot of time and stress that goes into commuting as well as money needed as well. The quality of life also is improved as a result and it does affect retention in a positive way.
Furthermore, even the organization branding gets a thumbs-up because it does portray the company in good light as one that trusts and values its work force.

*Sourced from the Internet




Thursday, May 30, 2019

A Job Description Needs To Convey The Company’s Culture As Well


Obviously, the job description needs to have the description of the role or profile in order to get it across your target audiences and attract eye balls that have the needed skills as well as experience. But, a point that is vital while screening candidates is whether they are fit to your company’s culture or not.
Many a times company’s take up this topic during personal interviews or screenings. But, the idea of highlighting your company’s culture in the description itself can actually work well with getting leads of the kind, who want to work in your firm.

If you highlight the culture of your company in your description itself after outlining the details of the description. A solid job descriptions needs to have the components like title, role objective, experience, benefits, compensation and location primarily. Here’s a run-down all the inclusions of a Job description in a way that gives an idea of the culture as well
Role Objectives – The role objective includes the objectives that the hired candidate would need to achieve. It is a vital statement clearly stating about what result is expected overall. Herein, the organization can share company’s vision as well as mission and what kind of experience are you looking for your customers. Obviously, this would cover how the potential employee would bring value to it.
Responsibilities – This include the daily responsibilities under the role with context to the role objectives as well as some additional or exclusive tasks. Even alongside the responsibilities you may throw a bit of light on how a typical day at the workstation would look like so that the potential employee gets a hang of it. This could include the team as well as the activities that would be carried out in collaboration. There are companies who actually convey the daily schedule so as to give the candidates an idea of how their workdays looks like.
Experience – If the designation requires experience then it needs to be there in the job description. But, rather than just including the number of years of experience, putting in the qualities of leadership your organization is looking for.
Advantage - Mentioning your employment benefits is always a good idea even though they don’t differ on a company to company basis. Here is when you can jot down the information around the company culture like flexible work timings, meals, pick up and drop, study while on board to name a few.
Well, if you give an idea of the culture of your company alongside your job description, the potential candidate will get a fair idea of how it would be to work with the company and in reality you could reach out to genuinely interested candidates.


Tuesday, April 16, 2019

Take Your Office Culture To The Work – Use Social Media Smartly


What do you see when you visit social media handles of corporate sites, mundane press releases and a few pictures of events if any. Not anything that is really engaging ain’t it? Most of you would definitely agree with this statement, for sure. Apparently, we all know that social media is a platform for engaging people and not apparently there are quite a few corporates who ain’t making the most of it. Here are a few tips on how you can show off your office culture and enhance your company branding online.

Visuals Sharing
This is a sort of a no brainer tip, yes. Keep updating pictures and videos as they work better than text. No wonder Instagram has surpasses 1 billion users already. Pictures actually speak better than words and the statistics already show that. So, keep posting pictures and videos about your work culture regularly to keep the audience engaged.
Quotes sharing – Sharing motivational quotes on a regular basis is a good idea to enhance your brand but you need to understand that the quotes you share need to post have to be in sync with the philosophy of your company. They need to simple, clear and accompanied with attractive visuals as well.
Offline Branding – there are brands that involve their staff in branding. For example share your company or organisations T-shirts and ask your staff to share pictures wearing them whenever they are on vacations at popular destinations. Whether it is the seven wonders of the world or any other known location, ask them to click and share.
Videos Work – As per statistics videos work 1200% more than a combination of text as well as images in combination. So, shoot at sight, literally at events and workshops and more.
The idea here is to build a fan or follower base and most importantly to make them smile because if you can get them interested and delighted then getting in new comers becomes easier too