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Recruitment – Numerology to the rescue

MultiOp Placements — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:41:34 +0000

The Economic Times reports that Firms are consulting numerologists to ensure success and also to recruit the right candidate.

Besides the brand, companies are also consulting numerologists for recruiting the right candidates for top positions. “Before recruiting me, the promoter of my company personally confirmed my date of birth, and recruited me only after she was satisfied that the digits added up to 1,” says COO of a company, on condition of anonymity.

How much more ridiculous can it get.

Jobs abegging in the Shipping Industry

MultiOp Placements — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 04:46:22 +0000

If one were to take this report at face value, there is a lack of personnel in the shipping industry.

Non-availability of suitable seafaring officers has become such a
grave problem that it threatens to disrupt the movement of cargo as a
result of long detention time of Indian vessels at ports. The
permission to ship-owners to hire foreign nationals is thus welcome.

As the shipping industry is a matured industry,this vacuum indicates a sector in good health.

Employers reputation matters

MultiOp Placements — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 09:45:11 +0000

Research conducted by Kenexa reveals that an employers reputation matters, especially to workers in India.

In fact it makes clear that apart from the most obvious reason i.e.,salary an employee is swayed to join an organization with an impeccable reputation.

So how good is your organizations reputation?

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Enterprise Account Manager

MultiOp Placements — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 03:57:59 +0000

Our client develops, manufactures and integrates technologies that identify, track and manage supply chain assets. Core technologies include RFID, mobile computing and data collection systems, bar-code printers and label media.

The company’s products and services are used by customers in many industries worldwide to improve the productivity, quality and responsiveness of business operations.

Prerequisites:

Minimum of 10+ years of proven sales track record of sustained growth.
Strong technical sales knowledge of the wireless or data capture (bar code, RFID) industry and or supply chain management and or warehouse management

Job Activities:

Call on assigned accounts and educate and develop demand.Develop relationships with key Program, Department Managers and operational managers and influencers
Develop strategic relationships and go to market practices & develop a pipeline of activities that will support a set annualized revenue volume.

Location: Chennai

Salary: In line with education,experience and track record.

Socially supportive workplace may be the better deal

MultiOp Placements — Sun, 23 Sep 2007 11:26:00 +0000

A look at the past 40 years of research, comprising 259 studies and almost 220,000 workers, found that the ”social” aspects of work are very important factors in making employees happy and positively affecting the employer’s bottom line.

In other words, workers who hole themselves up at home to get work done may not only make themselves unhappier in the long run, but also have less loyalty to and be less productive for the employers who granted such an arrangement.

The study, published in the Journal of Applied Psychology, found that having a ”socially supportive” workplace was related to greater job satisfaction and lower feelings of exhaustion and strongly reduced the likelihood of wanting to leave the job.

Job Searches – An Inside Out Process

MultiOp Placements — Wed, 12 Sep 2007 14:42:55 +0000

All effective job searches must always be an inside-out process — sorting out where your heart and skills are and then exploring opportunities to exercise your gifts instead of just casting about for jobs.
Understand that it is your job to maximize the contribution by ensuring that your gifts are in the best position to do the most good.
Ironically, once you realize this you will do things to protect your gift that you would never do for yourself. Like leave a job. Alternatively, to take a leap into a new opportunity, that on the surface, you have no apparent ability to pull off. Nevertheless, you know deep in your heart that it is something you have been preparing to do for your entire life.

With due apologies to Working Wounded Blog: Searching for a Job?

Graphology- The Ultimate employee assessment tool?

MultiOp Placements — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 07:55:59 +0000

This fad has been there for a long time, but seems to have resurfaced.

After getting its hold in west, Graphology has started making its inroads in India too. A large number of MNCs and other private companies in India are now hiring graphological services for recruitment, assessment of the employees, solving certain cases and increasing the efficiency.

The very same efficiency was touted about psychometric tests and other employee assessment tools.Now graphology is being talked about in the same breath.So what does the current exuberance imply?

Does it imply that graphology addresses various lacunae found in the earlier assessment tools or does it imply that graphology is the ultimate employee assessment tool?

Somehow, I always consider these employee assessment tools as devices used by managers and employers to cover up their inabilities.

Tags: Graphology, psychometric, assessment, employees, recruitment

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A CASE OF SKEWED PRIORITIES

MultiOp Placements — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 04:10:58 +0000

Good corporate leaders are developed by companies that spend more on job development, mentoring and coaching.

Korn/Ferry Asia Pacific senior client partner (leadership development solutions) David Everheart said 70 per cent of leadership development should come from job development, 20 per cent from mentoring and coaching, while 10 per cent from formal training.

Unfortunately, current research reveals that most companies spend more on training than they spend on job development, mentoring or even coaching.

A case of skewed priorities?

Negative Behaviour

MultiOp Placements — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:17:01 +0000

One “bad apple” can spread negative behavior like a virus to bring down office mates or destroy a good team, according to a new study examining conflict in the workplace.

Negative behavior outweighs positive behavior, so a bad apple can spoil the whole barrel, but one or two good workers can’t “unspoil” it, researchers at the University of Washington said in the current issue of the journal Research in Organizational Behavior.

Adapting to a new job

MultiOp Placements — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 12:46:51 +0000

One in four managers worry that the people they have brought into the business have still not adapted to their corporate culture three months after being hired, an international survey has concluded.