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Five Precautions you should take while recruiting the candidates

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Once we referred a Sales Executive for an automobile dealership company. The candidate graduated in commerce. He had an impressive personality and excellent communication skills too. Certainly he got preferred and was put on job immediately. During the initial period, everything went well but as time went on, the management came to know that his mathematical ability was poor. In fact, while attending the customers, one should have excellent mathematical ability so that he can convince and negotiate with the customer well. However, about this candidate, it was not checked during the recruitment process and then they encountered this issue. Ultimately, the candidate was asked to move. In such cases besides the candidate losing his job, the company also loses the cost of recruitment, salary paid and cost of lost opportunities. Now, the big question is, can we avoid such disasters? And its answer is YES. Just read and take the following precautions and your decisions will come more accurat...

Tips to achieve the best performance from your remotely working employees

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Due to the current pandemic situation, the companies are allowing their employees to work from home.  This new system ensures the safety of the employees, improves job satisfaction, and reduces the cost of operations to a certain extent.  Employees also save their time spent commuting to and from the office.  Overall, the system is excellent but unlike other changes, this too has certain teething problems.  In this system, it becomes very difficult to supervise and maintain control over the process and finally results in delays, substandard quality, and dried up cash-flows. Being a business consultant, many businessmen contact me to get rid of this problem and I always suggest them the following solutions.  In fact, these remedies are very simple and easy to implement.  Only you need to have systems orientation, perseverance, and a positive approach.  Please remember that each change comes with resistance and various difficulties but don’t get demotiva...