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Onboarding: How to get new hires started on the right track
New jobs are stressful. Nowadays companies are doing more to smooth out the process, but are we doing enough? Instead of the usual skills and technique training ……..
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How soft skills smooth the way to career and life success
Remember the most successful and popular students you knew in school? They seemed to be comfortable with everyone, intelligent, kind and fun. Anyone would be happy to work with them on a group assignment. These people are probably well-liked and respected as adults too, and would be valued in any workplace. What do they have that others don’t?
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Are your high flyers flying under the radar?
Success isn’t born, it’s made. Day after day. Year after year. The challenge for big and busy companies is spotting those executives who are quietly putting in the late nights and diligently developing themselves into the leaders of tomorrow.
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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?
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入邊行好？香港三大熱門產業招聘趨勢
入到有前景的行頭，不但晉升及加人工的速度更快，也有更多學習新技能的機會。綜合最新幾個調查統計報告，香港三大熱門產業有以下的招聘趨勢：
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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.
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4 Networking Mistakes to Avoid
Knowing the networking mistakes you should avoid in the first place will help you create and maintain an effective network to draw on for future inspiration and guidance.
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Don’t discount arts graduates for tech roles
What do an arts major and IT managers have in common? In short, the answer could well be “a lot more than you might think”. Personally, I have been involved with the arts from the age of 10 and had no intention of going into technology until after I had left university. The greatest programmer I ever worked with had a philosophy degree and, throughout my career, the majority of my colleagues didn’t offer computer science degrees.
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AI looks set to be a game changer for HR
There is no dubt that the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) is going to be a disruption for any industry. The question is how big a disruption will it be and whether disruptive innovation is what will bring about positive change. For Hong Kong’s recruitment industry, the answer remains to be seen, but observers believe that the industry is on the edge of a fundamental change and a major disruption even though it has been slow on the uptake.