Several years ago, I led the marketing team for one of the world’s largest engineering firms. It was a dream job for any marketing professional who enjoys selling through story-telling. I met teams around the world who were working on everything from hydroelectric tunnels in Canada, to nickel mines in Brazil, to ...
The primary goals for any recruiting team are to improve the quality of hires coming into the organization, and to optimize the process of finding and securing quality talent.
One of the key missteps that organizations make when expanding globally is to assume that what works in one part of the world will also work in another. It’s about much more than language. Cultural differences, shifting politics, unique legal regimes, and even history play a large role in success versus failure.
If I had to summarize social media as we kick off 2019 in three words, they would be: video; timeliness; personal.
For a couple of years now, the business climate in the U.K. has been suffering from a prolonged bout of uncertainty. We all seem to be in the midst of a nervous state as we wait with bated breath to see what will come of next week’s Brexit vote in the House of Commons. Add to this the shifting winds of world trade ...
Many of today’s leading CEOs are revered as near-rockstars. They’re followed by millions on social media, their lives are documented in gossip columns, and some, like T-Mobile’s John Legere and Twitter’s Jack Dorsey, sort of look the part.
Each year Sevenstep hosts its annual “Analyst & Influencers Day,” where industry analysts, bloggers, consultants, and members of the Talent Acquisition and Human Capital Management technology community come together to discuss the state of our industry and make some predictions about its future. Most notably, we ...
The workplace used to be a lot simpler. There were very few functional or cultural barriers, as most teams worked within silos of like-minded people with similar backgrounds and roles, and they typically worked together in person. Common work jargon and colloquialisms were all well-understood and team communication ...
