If the idea of a job interview wasn’t scary enough, you should know that according to research, the time it takes for an interviewer to get to a final decision is about 4 minutes on average. That gives you very little time to impress. But don’t worry just yet, for your ally is the Force! […]
Read more
The monomyth, or the hero’s journey, is a pattern described by Joseph Campbell in The Hero with a Thousand Faces (1949). This basic pattern can be found in many narratives from around the world, and goes like this: A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces […]
Read more
Talentsquare had the opportunity to attend the Web Summit 2014 in Ireland, Europe’s largest tech event with 20,000+ attendees. This massive event brings not only attendees but also thousands of startups and several hundreds of journalists and investors. For many, the experience was overwhelming due to the large amount of people and reduced time to […]
Read more
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, by Patrick Lencioni, published by Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated. Patrick Lencioni is an American writer of books on business management, particularly in relation to team management. He is best known as the author of The Five Dysfunctions of a Team. In addition, he is the founder and […]
Read more
On October 14th, I had the chance to attend #rmsconf in Paris. It is one of the biggest conferences about recruitment innovation and employer branding in Europe. This year the core focus was this simple question: How will we hire in 2025? After a scary / exciting introduction by Laurent Alexandre (@dr_l_alexandre), Surgeon-urologist, Founder of […]
Read more
Talentsquare has been selected from the huge number of applications to be part of the BETA programme at the 2014 Dublin Web Summit. Designed as the mature stage track at the Summit, BETA features the companies that have raised money, have a solid founding team and have displayed true innovation and business acumen. BETA will […]
Read more
How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be – The 25 Principles of Success, by Jack Canfield Jack Canfield is an American author and management expert. He is a founding member of the Transformational Leadership Council. He wrote this book in 2005, and is also co-author of the best-selling book series Chicken Soup for […]
Read more
HR has been evolving a lot as a function in the last couple of years. The war for talent has been increasing, and as a consequence organizations are looking at HR more prominently than before. A lot of the future of HR will be decided by the investment of top leaders in some of the […]
Read more
HRmeetup‘s Podcast Factory presents Joris Leemans, Business Unit Manager at Greenfish (@GreenfishEU), a company created in Brussels in 2010. It specialises in green jobs: renewable energy, energy efficiency and environmental technologies. Created to respond to the growing demand for experts in the environmental and energy sectors, Greenfish provides tailor-made sustainable staffing solutions to companies concerned about […]
Read more
I’ve always found that the first step of overcoming fear is figuring out exactly what you’re afraid of. – Richard Branson A couple of weeks ago, we interviewed Shamma Raghib (@SDstartupdiary), Innovation Manager at Startups.be and Co-Organiser of Startup Weekend Leuven (if you’d like to know how she came to organise Startup Weekends, you can chek out […]
Read more