Job searching can be vexing experience if you do not have that much working background to support your CV. However, this should not be a reason to doubt about your skills! Know-how does not have just to come from traditional professional jobs. Many of your soft skills the recruiter will value come from many different …
When approaching to the job market there is little we know about: from the mechanisms of the screening process to the expectation recruiters have. Actually, it all depends on your education background, the features and priorities the company you are applying for has. All in all, though, one can say that there are some common …
Nowadays more and more employers seek candidates with at least one experience abroad. Besides the improved language skills, Erasmus Programs provide students with different soft skills, that will reveals extremely valuable to employers. Goal oriented: In order to be admitted to the Erasmus program, students usually have to demonstrate, through their academic records, that they …
Following our file rouge about what the current job market requires to candidates in terms of personal and professional skills, here we would like to address the theme of willingness to learn and adaptability. Especially junior professionals should not underestimate these two skills; instead, they should turn these into “weapons” in order to outrun the …
Nowadays the job market has gotten more competitive and less and less employers look solely to the education background during the selection process. Yet, it is still one of the most significant watershed when preferring one candidate over another, ceteris paribus. Then, which are the most important traits a jobseeker needs to show (even show …
In order to gain some insights on what people think about employer branding strategies and techniques, we decided to look on Quora, one of the most Q&A website used by professionals. We realized that there is a lot of confusion around the intersection of these two subjects: What is the difference between Employer Branding and …
By talking to several HR managers and studying hiring processes for Meritocracy, we are progressively learning how motivation is an overwhelmingly strong driver of hiring decisions. We thought it was important, we didn’t think it was THAT important. We daily observe very motivated “normal” people succeeding in “target companies”, because their strong motivation led them …
The first step to build a powerful and reliable employer brand is to find and aim at a clear spot in the mind of jobseekers. As in every positioning strategy, the first question to answer is “What am I? What distinguish my offer from the rest of the market? i.e. What can I promise and …
After the most well-known age cohorts of Baby boomers and Generation X, the future “army” of employees will belong to Generation Y, better known as “Millennials”. As the previous generations drain, more Millennials will enter in the workforce, and by 2025 they will pervade more than 75% of the total labor market (Deloitte Italia, 2015). …