Career advice
Curated writing from operators, recruiters, and HR leaders — written for people building real careers in HK.
The frequency and severity of cyberattacks have dramatically increased in recent years, leaving businesses and individuals vulnerable to financial loss and reputational damage. As technology continues to advance and with the ever-present threat of cyberattacks, this has led to a growing need for cybersecurity insurance.
For many Hong Kong professionals, aspiring to a management role is a key career goal. Elaine Lam – Managing Director, Robert Half Hong Kong, discusses the characteristics that define an effective manager.
Uncertain times can be unsettling for your team. Elaine Lam — Managing Director, Robert Half Hong Kong, looks at how to keep employees motivated and bring out the best in your people. Motivating staff is a key skill for business leaders though it can be more challenging at certain times than at others. Periods of economic or domestic uncertainty, the introduction of new workplace technologies — even something as simple as returning to work following a vacation, are all factors than can see employee motivation flag.
When hiring, you don’t want to be wasting time meeting candidates who don’t meet the requirements of the job. Instead, your goal should be to narrow down the candidate pool to a manageable size so you can better identify the candidates who will be right for your role.
Recruitment as you may know can be a tiring process, but this doesn’t have to be the case. To help businesses better manage their talent acquisition process, we’ve created the Links’ Ultimate Recruitment Guide. In the last edition, we talked about tips and tricks to crafting captivating job descriptions, helping you attract the right talent to apply and fill your job vacancies. In this article, we will focus on ways to improve the resume reviewing process, to help you navigate through the numerous CVs to get to the best candidates for your roles.
Including age into a diversity strategy could be key to help to bolster employee engagement and overall productivity.
Make sure you scan CVs and covers letter for any potential deal-breakers.
As CVs start rolling in, the challenge for a recruiter is in identifying the right talent for the job at hand. To help make your hiring process more effective……..
As a recruitment consultant in Hong Kong, I often get some pretty interesting requests from employers……..
New jobs are stressful. Nowadays companies are doing more to smooth out the process, but are we doing enough? Instead of the usual skills and technique training ……..
【115 years of Hong Kong Recruitment Market】— Eight New Jobs Facilitated by Technological Innovation
【115 years of Hong Kong Recruitment Market】— Eight jobs of a bygone era In the past 50 years, Hong Kong has transformed from a centre of industry into a service-based, knowledge-driven economy thanks to universal education and advances in technology. In the process, many new jobs have been created while traditional ones, mostly in light industry and manufacturing, have been radically redefined or consigned to oblivion. Here, we look at some of the jobs that have disappeared in recent decades, but which were once well known in Hong Kong.