Zyvka

01/27/2022

It’s common knowledge that networking is an essential factor toward career success, but it’s also easy to forget just how often we should be making the effort!

If you’ve been working in your field for a couple of years, you probably already have some sort of established network. However, expanding your network can be difficult if you already struggle to network in general.

Here are five ways to get started!

1. Research networking events and trade shows near you

Networking events are specifically designed for people with similar interests to come together and discuss their interests, so this is a perfect growth opportunity for you and your network. There are dozens of websites geared toward helping professionals find events, including LinkedIn, Meetup, and Eventbrite.

2. Join a professional organization

Professional organizations typically serve as a function to further the success of their particular field, and it is usually made up of people with years of experience, knowledge, and connections. While joining a professional organization offers you the opportunity to build connections, it also gives you a chance to further your own knowledge in your profession.

3. Don't limit yourself to your industry

Don’t assume that networking should only be limited to events specifically targeted to your career field! While building up your professional network with people within your industry is important, it’s also valuable to expand your network with those who may not work in your field, but do share a common passion with you.

4. Pursue volunteer opportunities

One resource for building professional networks that some professionals neglect is volunteering with a charity or advocacy group you feel passionately about. Volunteer work often leads to more substantial discussions and presents more opportunities to build stronger and deeper relationships.

5. Use alumni network

Similar to non-career volunteering and networking events, alumni networking events expose you to professionals from different fields, but with similar interests. Alumni events are a great place to rekindle old memories, but they’re also an excellent way to discover new career opportunities that you may not have considered in the past.

01/26/2022

Our country is our home, our traditions and our treasure.
This Republic Day, let's pledge to protect it all.

Wishing everyone a Happy Republic Day!

01/21/2022

When your company experiences growth, it is natural that you plan to go on a recruiting spree to hire fresh as well as experienced candidates for entry-level as well as higher-level positions.

One of the ways to do this is through Contingency Recruiting.

Contingency recruiting is a type of outsourced recruiting service, wherein the recruiter gets paid only on the successful hires they do for the company.

In simple terms, the client pays the recruiting firm only when the candidate they offered for selection gets the job. It is a “no placement, no fee” kind of arrangement between the client and the contingency recruiting firm.

In contingency recruiting, the hiring process is done on a project-by-project basis, wherein the recruiter works to find as many available qualified candidates as possible in a short period, and present them to the client for recruitment.

Contingency recruiting has some benefits. They are as follows:

1. It ensures quick recruitment.
Contingency recruiters will ensure you find suitable candidates in a short period because that is where their profits lie. They know that they have not been hired exclusively in finding the right candidate, and they need to be a step ahead of the competition.

2. It has no contractual obligation.
Hiring clients don’t need to enter into a long-term contract with contingency recruiters to seek their services. Contingency recruiters work on a project-by-project basis.

Contingency recruiting is the best way to create a buzz in the job market about your available positions. It expands your horizon and helps you reach out to a wider candidate base.

01/19/2022

How to choose the right recruitment agency for your company?

In today's highly competitive, candidate-driven market, finding and hiring the ideal job candidate is quite hard. This is why many companies turn to recruitment agencies to help them recruit the right people for their open job positions.

To choose the right recruitment agency, follow these 4 steps

STEP 1: DEFINE YOUR HIRING NEEDS

Defining your hiring needs and specifying all the details about the position(s) you are looking to fill is a necessary prerequisite for choosing the right recruitment agency.

Do you need help hiring many, a few or just one employee? What kind of position are you looking to fill? Permanent or temporary? Entry-level or executive-level?

STEP 2: CHOOSE THE RIGHT RECRUITMENT AGENCY TYPE

This step will help you narrow down a pool of possible recruitment agencies to consider. If you need to hire temporary staff, your best choice is staffing recruitment agency. If you need to hire high-level executives, you should go for executive recruitment agency.
For everything else, your best choice will probably be a general recruitment agency that specializes in your industry.

STEP 3: CHECK AFFORDABILITY

Finding the best recruitment agency is useless if you can't afford its services. Most recruitment agencies have the general information listed on their websites. However, to get a more precise and detailed information, you'll probably need to contact them.

STEP 4: CHECK THE EXPERTISE

The fourth and final step in choosing your perfect recruitment agency is to check the expertise of your top 3 chosen agencies. If you followed the previous steps, you should be down to three agencies of appropriate type that you can afford. To choose a final winning recruitment agency, compare the quality of your top competitors' work. Do your research!

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01/17/2022

01/13/2022

As we enter a new year, it's always fun to look ahead and think about what's in store. So, in the spirit of looking ahead, we've compiled a list of business books that you'll want to read in 2022. From leadership advice to marketing tips, these books have everything you need to take your business to the next level.

For all the entrepreneurs out there, here are three books to read in 2022

1. The Ten-Day MBA: A Step-by-Step Guide to Mastering the Skills Taught in America's Business Schools by Steven A. Silbiger

In The Ten-Day MBA, Silbiger offers readers everything he’s learned teaching business. It’s like a crash course in marketing strategy, accounting, finance, operations, economics, organizational behavior, and ethics.

2. Solving the People Problem: Essential Skills You Need to Lead and Succeed in Today's Workplace by Brett M. Cooper and Evans Kerrigan

Running your own business is more than just bringing in revenue. You must be a relationship-builder who is willing and able to get along with a variety of personality types. In Solving the People Problem: Essential Skills You Need to Lead and Succeed in Today’s Workplace, Cooper and Kerrigan guide readers to be not only great business leaders but also tactful relationship builders.

3. Move Fast. Break S**t. Burn Out: The Catalyst's Guide to Working Well by Tracey Lovejoy and Shannon Lucas

If you can’t tell by the title, Move Fast. Break S**t. Burn Out: The Catalyst’s Guide to Working Well may not be everyone’s cup of tea. But, it’s worth reading to see if you’re motivated to do more.

01/11/2022

When you start your own business, you’re taking a big risk. Most likely, you have heard all of the statistics on the success rates of new businesses, and you are determined to defy the odds with your business.

Take some tips from successful startups; here are some of the things they do differently than those who fail.

1. Create value for customers
When your product or service provides a value that makes your customers’ life better or easier, it gives them a reason to keep doing business with you. Focus on growing your business in a way that will better serve and create value for your customers. That value will help bring more customers your way.

2. Pick a market that is ripe for growth
Often, it’s the market that determines that determines whether a business succeeds or not. That means you need to carefully select the markets you enter. Your market needs to have a need for your product and services, as well as a population that will support your business.

3. Manage Cash Flow
Your business needs a steady flow of cash. That cash allows you to pay your employees, your business’s overhead and buy the supplies and inventory you need to serve your customers. If you aren’t successfully managing your business’s cash flow, you are jeopardizing your business’s ability to succeed.

4. Hire for your weaknesses
As you add employees and grow your business, take on employees whose skills and strengths complement yours. Look for new employees whose skills, personalities and backgrounds differ from yours and from the rest of your team. Hiring a diverse group of employees will make your business stronger because you will have a team ready to handle a range of responsibilities and tasks.

5. Focus on the big picture
To grow and succeed, you need to focus on the big picture for your business. Set goals and have a vision for how you want your business to grow. Have a roadmap of daily, weekly and monthly tasks that will help you achieve your goals. Evaluate your goals and your milestones regularly so you can adjust to stay on track to reach those goals.

01/03/2022

12/31/2021

Wishing you all a very happy new year!
May your days be filled with joy, laughter, and good health.
Here's to hoping that 2022 is the best year yet!

12/29/2021

At our company, we take pride in fulfilling our client's needs. We have a process in place that allows us to do this effectively and efficiently. Our team is dedicated to ensuring that each and every client receives the best possible service.
This is the outline of our client fulfilment process:

1. CLIENT INPUT
- Job description and skill set mapping
- Understanding the persona of an ideal candidate for each position
- Mapping "must have" and "good to have" skills/ competencies
- Clarifying questions

2. SOURCING
- Candidate sourcing from key primary job boards
- Social Media platforms and leveraging internal database (as applicable)
- Post boosting and management

3. REVIEWING AND PIPELINE CREATION
- Second level of filtration on sourced candidates to improve the quality of submissions
- Prescreening based on competency map

4. OUTREACH
- Outreach through emails/calls/text campaigns
- Pre-screening questions designed to evaluate cognitive skills, domain knowledge and personality traits

5. SUBMISSION
- Submission of shortlisted candidates to clients for next steps
- Candidate management including feedback, offer roll out and join date

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