Many employers in Asia are coming around to the concept that, in addition to looking for certain skills among their candidates, they should also be looking for people who fit into their organizational culture. Some leaders even talk about cultural fit taking precedence over skills; their idea is that skills can be taught, but cultural […]

Remote workers offer an effective way of controlling your costs while expanding your talent pool. From a cost perspective, you can cut down on office space, avoid the hassles and expense of employment visas, and potentially pay less than you would with a local hire while still getting great talent that is making a good […]

With all the creativity that led to Generation X being followed by Generation Y, we now have…Generation Z. This is generally considered to be the group born starting in the late 1990s. Other names have been suggested — my favorite so far is iGen — but they are young enough that we have plenty of […]

Few things in life are less fun than the hiring process. No matter which side of it you are on, it is simply not a pleasant experience. Since people tend to move from firm to firm more often now, though, chances are you are going to spend more time in this process than you want. […]

In the US there is a tendency to look at private universities as “better.” Maybe because they are more expensive, maybe because some states have established easier admission standards for their public universities, maybe because schools like Harvard and Stanford have set the bar pretty high…whatever the reason, we often view private universities as more […]