If you are in a business where creativity is valuable, then no matter whether your workforce is large or small, there are some qualities you want to look for when recruiting new folks or deciding where to put your retention emphasis. We have talked about many of these characteristics at various times in this blog, […]

A high turnover rate among your employees can cost you a lot, and not just in terms of money. When I was in the US government, I used to work with a lab out in Hawaii. They tended to recruit their scientists with the expectation they would only be there for a few years. Even […]

A study a few years ago by the American Psychological Association found an interesting relationship between increased creativity and living overseas. Students in various business schools were evaluated using common tests for creativity, and the more overseas experience they had, the more creative they tended to be. It was not totally clear from the study […]

It looks like employers in Singapore plan to increase their hiring in early 2015, while Malaysian employers already increased headcount in Q4. For the last couple of years, firms in many industries across Southeast Asia slowed down their hiring, especially in the financial sector. Many employers, seeing this, have been more comfortable with slowing down […]

You cannot always offer the top salary. In fact, you cannot always offer above average salaries, because for that to be the average, then someone has to be below it, right? New firms in particular may not be able to offer much at first until they build up their clientele and have a little cash […]