With the COVID-19 outbreak, many employers were left with no choice but to reduce staff costs by retrenching current employees, cutting salaries, or placing all hiring on hold. During this unprecedented time, many firms including Grab, Gojek, AirAsia, One Championship…
I think you’ll agree with me when I say: It’s REALLY hard to do recruiting these days. When I first started recruitment in 2004, a job advertisement could easily yield 30 to 50 good applicants. Employers could take the pick…
In a tight labour market like Singapore, recruiting is tough. Let alone hiring for roles that are extremely hard to fill. In a survey by the Association of Executive Search and Leadership Consultants (AESC), the executive roles most in demand…
I could remember the pain in volume recruitment of frontline staff during my recruitment days. We were tasked by one of the large supermarket chains to find interim staffs to help in the festive promotion of mandarin oranges as Chinese…
I first got to know about Adaface at this year’s HR Tech Summit in Singapore. Adaface is one of the four startups pitching at the Tech Den and I did some research into every one of them. Initially, I thought…
Bangkok, 11 July 2019 – Djoann Fal, CEO of GetLinks, announced new features that help organizations make tech hiring predictable, and they are free to try out. GetLinks’ research has shown that employer branding plays a crucial role in tech…
I love data entry, says no one ever. This is especially so given the ease of data access. In the context of recruitment, a job posting on average yields double digits application. Which is quite manageable with an hour or…
Singapore: GrabJobs, a Singapore-based mobile-first Job Platform focused on entry to mid-level jobs, today announced the launch of a new feature that allows job seekers to apply for jobs without having to fill in a profile or upload a CV.…
Artificial intelligence (AI), as a recruitment tool, has been rapidly rising and revolutionizing the recruiting process. Similarly to sales representatives and marketers that had profited from automation tools such as HubSpot and Salesforce, recruiters are now progressively turning to AI…
Recorded video interviews are a bit of a new concept in the recruitment space. For decades, companies relied upon the face-to-face interview to find the right employee. It’s the go-to method in terms of pulling the trigger on a hire…
