Are you considering working for a creative agency or going it alone as a freelancer? There are a number of benefits to both options, but there are also some drawbacks. Lots of people decide to start out working for any agency and then move on to freelancing once they’ve built up some experience. It’s a […]
A Startup’s Guide to Successful Hiring
New startups are sprouting up left and right. Just last year, companies such as Fastwork began establishing themselves in their respective markets across Asia, and are growing at an impressive rate. Success stories such as these bring up an interesting question: What makes startups thrive? The answer to this will vary depending on who you […]
Cool Asian HR Tech Startups To Watch
Right throughout Asia there is amazing HR Tech being developed and today we’re going to take a fresh look at some Asian HR startups, big and small, and see what they’re busy creating. We start our tour of Asian HR Tech in Singapore with a rapidly-growing business in the Recruitment Tech space. Glints – Not […]
Business Owners: How to Chase Away Your Best Employees
Finding quality employees is not only time-consuming, but the time and expense that the HR department undertakes can be overwhelming. Think of the steps involved- starting with advertising to recruit a decent pool of candidates- to the training expense when hiring new employees. Now, consider your employee turnover rate with that cost going down the […]
Will the Freelancing Trend Completely Change the Way Companies Hire?
The times when people were tied to a single, 9-5 job their entire career doesn’t seem that far away. The traditional workplace has many disadvantages that are causing serious dysfunctions in labor markets around the world. Issues like high unemployment rate and unhappy workers are still very present in today’s economies. But the workforce has […]
15 Reasons Why Online Training Benefits Both Employees & Businesses
We’ve gotten to the point where we realize that in order to have a successful career, we must embrace learning as a lifelong initiative. School, in the traditional sense, might end when we leave high school or college, but that doesn’t mean we should give up on learning. As the global economy continues to impact […]
A Unique Hiring Platform That Will Change The Business Admin
Zealots is a hiring platform that connects companies with personal, virtual or executive assistants. Zealots helps businesses in hiring top quality administrative professionals by providing tests and challenges to the applicants. Professionals can show off their profile, their education history and past employment, and most importantly – their skills. The employers have a more transparent […]
Career Meets Life Overhauls The Online Job Search
As founders of Career Meets Life, Sahar Nasseri and Mike Cook, began planning for their own futures and discussing business ideas that would support their personal situations, they eventually realized that there was a largely neglected market of people looking for flexible options. In short, they said, “job searching needed an overhaul”. And so they […]
A laser-sharp focus on entrepreneurship is required to create jobs
Encourage entrepreneurship and you create jobs. A simplistic statement, perhaps, but nevertheless true. It’s certainly one which is finding more and more resonance across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region in general, and in Egypt in particular, where great strides are being made to mitigate and recover from the impact of the January […]