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  Should the years of experience be a priority in a hiring decision rather than the impact that has been made by a person regardless of the tenure of service / work experience? 🤷🏻‍♀️   Quality = (Curios Mindset) * (Agility + Resourcefulness + Development) / (Impact)   When making a hiring decision Recruiting Manager , would you rather shortlist a person with a longer work tenure or years of experience but has made little impact in the course of their career over one who has less, but has impacted the organisations they worked with through the quality of work done?   Basically, the disruptions in the world of work has affected how organisations recruit and the Millennials and Gen Zs' are also changing the dynamics.   Let's MUSE on this. Your thoughts.   Folu' Rotimi https://bit.ly/LinkedinshareFR

All GENIUSES who have / had ever existed had a CURIOUS mindset. Their quest for ingenuity propels them to ask questions  One of the essential skills for career success is CURIOUSITY Being curious involves asking questions more often than the average the person would. Curiosity is a mental state or mindfulness and can be developed. Curiosity gives birth to INNOVATION & CREATIVITY. Sometimes it is misconstrued by people as being intrusive, nosey or a plain busy body. However, this is a wrong assumption; rather, it is a powerful mindset tool to bring out ingenious ideas for problem solving. Asking questions broadens one’s mind into putting all the responses and conjectures together, analysing them, with the aim of arriving at a logical conclusion or solution. One which is based on objectivity from the collected data. It all comes together, right? So, wouldn’t you rather be a curious person? Albert Einstein was curious and he became a GENIUS Geniuses are brought to the fore based o...

 Don’t just answer questions in an interview. Ask these questions too!! 📌 How the role fits into the grand scheme of things in the organization. 📌 What are the immediate wins the employer would like to see from the job holder?  Asides the fact that these questions show your enthusiasm to know more about the role and possible job expectations, it also places you on the top priority shortlist of the employer / recruiter. On a personal level, asking any of these questions prepares you ahead of time to decide on whether you have the 👇🏻 1.      requisite skill set to deliver on the job expectations 2.      assists you to negotiate a befitting pay for the job 3.      assess the interviewer’s reply on openness and honesty and lastly, 4.      the interviewer’s response enables you to determine whether to accept the job offer or not if selected. The employer's mission is to get the most out of the candidates during intervi...

 

Before you criticize, judge, or condemn that staff or issue out the PIP document, please, first consider any of these possibilities: Could this person be a victim of their past experiences which has shaped their present behaviour? Could they be experiencing job burnout due to an enormous workload and ambiguous performance delivery expectations from their employer? Are they having personal challenges that may be affecting their performance on the job? Can these behaviours be managed or unlearned? Is your workplace building a culture of trust to foster for an employee experience of openness and belonging which is required for them to thrive? Have you provided adequate work tools for them to be efficient on their job? Are the goals of the organisation communicated in clear terms and language? Have they been provided with clear metrics of measurement for their job role? Who is the Line manager? Are they trained to be co...

 Quick Question 🤔 Are you awake to your environment, or slugging through life without equipping yourself to embrace and align with the changes that presents itself?  Being satisfied with status quo leads to a perpetual stagnation of all things progressive. Status quo is a Latin word for existing state Ponder on this, 💡 The state of things in recent times has laid more credence to the fact that change is the only constant thing in life. Nothing is permanent because the world is constantly evolving and only those with a higher purposeful mindset would survive the turbulences that would continuously prevail Asking these self-examination questions could help to measure your current position in the scheme of things:👇 Do I detest change? Am I constantly trying to develop and upskill myself?   Am I afraid of standing alone and be unpopular for my stance when I know I am right? Do I suck up to my bosses / people and sing their praises even when I know they are wrong? Am ...

 Be your authentic self, Stop FAKING it !!! Originality would take you far in life. Fake life would only bring ruins in the short or long run. One smart fox would sniff out the scent of fakeness soon and there the journey to a downward spiral begins. Imagine having gone so far in life only for your fakeness to be discovered. Oops! Not a good end, right? Should you fall under the category of those who have falsified their age, lied about work experiences on their CV, provided wrong information to the employer just to get the job, did not tell the truth about any health challenges, provided a falsified educational certificate, and used all other fake paraphernalia just to get ahead in life, you are living a fake life. You know yourself. The  time is now to right your missteps and come clean before it gets too late. Be Warned! This post is composed borne out of my experiences as a recruiter and a HR practitioner. I have seen all sorts. Trust me. https://bit.ly/LinkedinshareFR

What Frequency Wavelength is your Mind tuned? I am putting out this post to uplift someone's spirit and to re-awaken our beings to the power of self actualisation. Not sure if it is a motivational, however, if it achieves the purpose of which it was meant for, then, feel free to tag it in any form that resonates with you.   The mind is like a radio frequency and the wavelength it is tuned to shapes the thoughts. As humans, the mind is the most powerful tool of our being and, therefore, needs to be protected at all cost. The universe only rewards positive thoughts with successful outcomes.  I f what you hear is sad news, you will become depressed and anxious. However, if you hear good news, your spirit is lifted with hope   Little wonder the holy book recommends guarding our thoughts.   How to develop your mind for success   📍 Stop thinking of taking revenge 📍 Be kind. Don't be self centered 📍 Show empathy 📍 Shut out any form of negativi...

Are your Organisational Structures & Workplace Practices ALIGNING with Current Realities? Happenings around the world sometimes look like an action or futuristic movie where everything seems to happen so fast. Many a times, unexpected events ha ppen that lead to a shift in how activities are carried out on a normal basis. An example is the Covid19 pandemic which has impacted the way work is currently being structured in various organisations. Disruptions here and there leading to uncertainties on how the leanings in the macro and micro environment would tilt in the coming days, months or even years. In present day 2022, some common talent management trends have emerged in the forms of employee flight risk and talent mobility, the great resignation, employee wellness / wellbeing, remote and hybrid working, virtual team building, diversity & inclusion. Just when it seems it couldn’t get any crazier, BOOM! the macro environment is impacting some organisations to tilt the trend tow...

Peer to Peer Workplace Harassment & Bullying Did you know you are a culprit when you are involved in Harassment and Bullying behaviours in your Workplace? Workplace Harassment and Bullying also happens amongst peers in the workplace and in these instances, it may be indirect actions that may not necessarily be physical , emotional or verbal. The picture 👇🏻 has a list of behaviours that is also considered as bullying and harassment. Any behaviour which makes people feel disrespected, intimidated and is offensive fall under the category of bullying and harassment. ✨Workplace leaders, therefore, have to constantly check themselves on leading by example. ✨HR leaders should build workplace initiatives that reinforces ethical behaviours and belonginess as part of the organisational culture. Failure to address the issues of workplace harassment and bullying amongst colleagues would lead to a toxic work culture where ethical behaviours are almost non-existent. 🙋🏻Are you a culprit or ...

Improper workplace onboarding process has multiple impact on both the employee and the organisation. How can a new hire be expected to start delivering humongous performance work outputs within a month or three months of being hired? Sounds ridiculous, right? According to SHRM , a strategic onboarding process starts from day one of the hire to about a year. It therefore takes a new hire an average of five months to a year of being employed with an organisation to start churning out high performance work deliverables. A new hire is supposedly learning the intricacies of the work environment and how to align their role with the organisation's structure during the onboarding period. Recruitment cost is high on the employer. It is only smart handle the onboarding process for new hires in a properly structured manner and not the usual unstructured ones that some of us have experienced at some point in pour career trajectory. If employees aren't properly onboarded into the workpla...