What are the benefits of informational interviews
All job-seekers are being told the importance of researching the companies they are interested in, following people who works on the industry they want to join, attending networking events, trying to engage people online using LinkedIn or other social media tools…but what about informational intervi [...]
Global Mobility and relocating abroad
When we focus on international career development opportunities for full time employees, we need to review the current situation of international assignments. Relocating abroad for a specific job position is challenging, it improves the individual skill set but managed poorly can lead to frustration [...]
Get your resume mobile-friendly
After Christmas I received an email from one of my old clients. He wanted my opinion about the formatting and lay out of a CV. He happily thought that the CV contained useful features. When I looked at the CV on my mobile phone I was appalled, I couldn´t believe that a senior professional w [...]
Walk the Talk
I used this expression “Walk the Talk” a few days ago-I am sure you have heard it and use it so many times-. I think it came up to me while I was reading an article about the future of work and the writer´s opinion that is never too late to find your dreamed job position; there are second [...]
Technology Innovation applied to Human Resources
The impact of innovation technology in the human resources area is quite visible. What´s the impact of applying Big Data and Artificial Intelligence? Which HR areas are using this technology? What improvements are they experimenting? Big Data is being used by well-known companies- Google, Airbnb, Ne [...]
Information Overload: memory, data and multitasking
I remember buying The Shallows “How the internet is changing the way we think, read and remember” by Nicholas Carr as soon as the book came out in 2010. After reading a shorter article on a magazine, I thought it could shed some light into the effect the internet was having in our memory. I haven´t [...]