Today’s post is courtesy of guest blogger Roman Duty. Roman owns executive search firm Recruiting Services International (founded in 1970) that specializes in technical search globally (R&D/engineering, manufacturing, science). Roman has been an active member of NPAworldwide for 4 years.

As far as making a living is concerned, executive recruiters live and make money, in an unbalanced world. Most of us are 100% commission and that money is reliant upon the most unpredictable living object on earth: People. We are tasked with finding the perfect match between the job, the person, the company, and the location. However, we also are dealing with the entire periphery: human emotion, children/schools, spouses, aging parents, pets, commutes, cost-of-living differences, money, weather, etc… We’re often even their realtors! Read the rest of this entry »

Today’s guest blogger is Daniel Wood, the global marketing manager of SafeGuard World International. For nearly a decade, organizations around the world have relied on SafeGuard World for their global HR needs, specifically around payroll and employee compliance. SafeGuard World is an Alliance Partner of NPAworldwide.

Global expansion has long being a term associated with multi-billion conglomerates, but with the ever changing economic and technological landscape, the reality is this is no longer the case. Today, tens of thousands of small and medium sized businesses expand their presence internationally every year. Despite this upsurge, a number of myths around global expansion still remain. We’ve identified four of the most common global expansion myths and demonstrate how they can be dispelled through working with the right global employment outsourcing (GEO) provider. Read the rest of this entry »

Manpower has released its Global Employment Outlook Survey for Q4 2016. This survey asks some 59,000 employers in more than 40 countries to answer a single question: “How do you anticipate total employment at your location to change in the three months to the end of December 2016 as compared to the current quarter?” The results show that staffing levels are expected to increase in 42 of 43 countries surveyed. Just over half of survey respondents are reporting increases over the previous quarter, with just under half expecting year-over-year growth. Highlights from each major geographic region follow: Read the rest of this entry »

The search for talent is becoming increasingly more difficult. Demographics alone will perpetuate this challenge well into the future. More experienced and talented employees retiring and fewer candidates with lower levels of experience to draw from combine to form a shallower talent pool. Employer hiring mistakes cost your business in lost productivity, decreases in morale, lost time, and lost opportunity. Read the rest of this entry »

Today, Michelle Burke from Social Talent (an NPAworldwide Endorsed Program) shares with us her 10 reasons why you should include salary ranges in your job ads. Michelle is a Content Marketing Executive at Social Talent, providing training in internet recruitment, sourcing, headhunting techniques and much more. Find more of her articles on the Social Talent Blog.

The question of whether or not to disclose salaries in job ads is one that generally sparks much debate. Suffice to say that there are downsides to including a salary range in your job ads – for one, you could be tipping off your competitors as to what your rates of pay are, making it easier for them to make counter offers to potential candidates. There’s also the fact that you could be irritating current employees who aren’t in that particular pay scale themselves, generating an avalanche of pay-rise requests in the process! Read the rest of this entry »

Today’s guest blogger is Simon Whitehead, the founder  of HRC Law, based in Manchester, UK. Simon is known for his practical and commercial approach and his firm works with a large number of UK based and international recruitment businesses. Simon works regularly on the following: business purchases and sales – shareholder agreements and corporate structures; employee retention and attraction – share options, employment contracts and service agreements; settlement agreements and exit strategies; TUPE transfers and issues relating to outsourcing; employment tribunal claims including discrimination claims; business protection issues including confidentiality, social media and post termination obligations; data protection and regulatory issues; and debt recovery and business disputes. Should you wish to connect with Simon he can be contacted at simonwhitehead@hrclaw.co.uk.

Are there any certainties about Brexit? After the High Court Ruling on 3rd November 2016 stated that the decision to trigger the exit negotiations need to be agreed by Parliament and not just the Prime Minister, I think the answer is “no”! Read the rest of this entry »