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Top tips for getting a first-rate performance review (Part 2)

In Part 1 last week, we looked at some ways to help prepare for and write up your performance review. This week we will focus on what to say in the meeting and what to do beforehand.A conversation with your boss about your performance doesn’t have to induce panic. Hopefully, the preparation you’ve done has boosted your confidence and reminded you of your accomplishments. Before you head into that meeting, make sure to do the following. Make notesThis can help you stay on message and identify what you want to focus on.

Workplace English

Top tips for getting a first-rate performance review (Part 1)

Just like job interviews, performance reviews are a necessary evil in today’s business world. And, in this time of global economic uncertainty, it is more important than ever for employees to prove their value to their companies. So how do you put your best foot forward?

Workplace English

Giving the Perfect Presentation (Part 2)

In this part, we continue with further tips on how to give the perfect presentation……

Workplace English

Giving the Perfect Presentation (Part 1)

Very few people in the world enjoy the prospect of giving a presentation. Even though you may not be speaking to millions of people, giving the perfect presentation is still important.

Workplace English

Avoiding awkwardness in small talk (Part 2)

In part 1 last week, we explored effective ways of beginning a conversation, some examples of questions to control and guide conversations……

Job Search in Hong Kong

【職場實用英語】5分鐘寫完Thank you letter (Part 1)

只要有 sample，有 template，寫一封 Thank you letter（感謝信）只需要 5 分鐘，相比起睇 job ads、send CV、去見工所花嘅時間，呢 5 分鐘絕對值得。 Thank you letter 真係有用？邀請得去面試嘅 candidates，大家都差唔多學歷同經驗，要突圍而出，除咗面試嘅表現，一封 Thank you letter 往往係成敗關鍵。最近有調查1顯示，高達五分一嘅招聘人員會自動 DQ 冇 send Thank you letter 嘅 candidates。根據另一份調查2，有八成 HR 經理認為你封 Thank you letter 嘅內容會左右佢哋嘅最終決定

HR Career Success

Ultimate Recruitment Guide: Conducting a CV Review

Recruitment as you may know can be a tiring process, but this doesn’t have to be the case. To help businesses better manage their talent acquisition process, we’ve created the Links’ Ultimate Recruitment Guide. In the last edition, we talked about tips and tricks to crafting captivating job descriptions, helping you attract the right talent to apply and fill your job vacancies. In this article, we will focus on ways to improve the resume reviewing process, to help you navigate through the numerous CVs to get to the best candidates for your roles.

HR Career Success

Age discrimination is widespread but should be fought in the workplace

It’s perhaps ironic that we discriminate on the ground of age, because we all have been young and we’ll all grow old. Ageing is inevitable and universal. Age is different from, for example, gender or ethnicity in that generally speaking, we have no lived experience of other sexes and ethnicity, but we all have or will have experiences of other people’s ages.

HR Career Success

Maxim’s new approach to revamp recruitment strategy

Bocco Chen, senior manager of talent acquisition, Maxim’s Hong Kong discussed with cpjobs.com how revamp recruitment strategy will better deal with a new generation of talent. What differentiates Maxim’s as an employer?

HR Career Success

How to maintain employer-of-choice standing with Hong Kong’s digital natives

If salary is no longer their top consideration, how do we best connect with today’s emerging workforce? The key to hiring and retaining the new generation of employees is to create in them a sense of belonging to your company. For digital natives born into our new communications age, constant communication is vital. Yet doing so can be a challenge at times, especially when dealing with the most connected group around.

HR Career Success

Tips to help you manage millennial workforce

People grumble that the younger generation of workers are getting worse; that they are immature and irresponsible; that they don’t work hard enough; that they want quick results while not willing to put in the effort. Many feel that the “internet generation” is too used to instant gratification, and don’t persevere for more meaningful rewards. Are younger workers as bad as many of their supervisors and bosses’ complaints about them suggest? Many of the millennial generation don’t think so.

Productivity Tips

12 Proven Strategies to increase Job Satisfaction

Making your employees more satisfied with their work is surprisingly easy to do if you genuinely care about their well-being. There are 12 simple, proven things that you can do……