The job description is a match, location is great, and even the pay leaves a smile on your face. But, a voice inside of you keeps nagging “what is the day to day like?”, “will people like me?”, “will I like them?”, “how can I leave a mark?” Company culture may be the most important […]
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Aside from building a strong outward-facing company culture, one of the best ways to attract and in this case also retain talented IT professionals is by having a great reputation. Reputation to offer IT professionals what a competitive market dictates as needed. Given the currently growing shortage of available IT workforce. Top 7 ways to keep
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The ‘Talent Shortage’ It is no speculation or prediction anymore. The shortage gap between IT professionals proportionally to available jobs in the market is here and is rapidly widening even further. The worldwide market, led by the United States has an incredible amount of IT related opportunities across varying segments- thus resulting in prolonged and
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LinkedIn is a magnificent tool to interact with people within your professional field, people who share the same interests and professional bubble as you. Though, the majority of professionals on LinkedIn don’t maximize this tool’s potential. When looking for a job, you need to shift your mind-set and understand that LinkedIn is your personal marketing
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A normal working day is made out of meetings, calls, breaks, actual work, and for the most part; routinely scheduled interactions. Almost all our interactions within the work place are planned. Those which aren’t are only polite or artificial: ‘how are you?’, ‘how was your weekend?’, ‘Anyone wants a cup of coffee?’ With these diligently
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Many of us are scared of taking any risks in the workplace. It is our nature to believe we are safer remaining within the comfort zone and letting things breeze by, without risking our position. We stay in a job that doesn’t encourage us, because we are scared of risking our income, we choose to
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One of the burning issues associated with the hiring process is that at times, no matter how thorough the process is- wrong people are hired. Truth be told, I recently came to the realisation that in most cases the blame should be pointed towards recruitment consultants and not the employer (who makes the final decision).
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Our mission at Marcus Donald People is to always ensure all Candidates are placed in the role that best fits their skills and professional ambitions, while ensuring Employers hire the people who are right for their specific requirements. That said, the new service we introduced in the last month utilises today’s digital focus to transform
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It is clear that Cloud Computing is the future and within the next 2 to 3 years the majority of companies that haven’t done so yet, will migrate to the Cloud. However, this has lead Information Security professionals everywhere to ask themselves the question ‘Would Cloud migration increase our Cyber Security risk?’ I recently read
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Millennials make the largest portion of the employment market and as the late comers of Generation Y are getting older; companies must adapt in order to stand a chance in the battle for the top talent in the market. Differently to the opinion of many; flexible working conditions, posting team updates on social media or
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