Procurement & Career Guidance
Job interviews can be intense and difficult.
Worrying about the questions hiring managers and HR teams will ask is stressful. While there are no magic bullets to make every interview perfect, there are some strategies you can deploy to have a better experience.
Preparation is certainly key, but it is important to remember to focus on the lasting impression you are leaving. This video gives some tips on how to do that.
Data bears this out. The average holding time for stocks has fallen from eight years in 1960 to eight months in 2016. Almost 80 percent of chief financial officers at 400 of America’s largest public companies say they would sacrifice a firm’s economic value to meet the quarter’s earnings expectations. And companies are spending more and more on purchasing their own shares to drive stock prices up, rather than investing in equipment or employees.
https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/12/short-term-thinking/511874/?utm_source=feed
Another strategy to tackle estimation uncertainty is simply to get more estimates. Instead of relying on the judgment of one developer, all team members are asked to hazard a guess, ideally simultaneously to avoid biases (often done through “planning poker”) and use that as a basis for further deliberations. However, no matter how large the group is, this approach still relies on intuitive prediction and is prone to biases such as groupthink.
Whether or not a dress code (or a uniform) impacts productivity in the workplace is an ongoing argument that doesn’t seem likely to resolve any time soon. What I think all of this comes down to is allowing your workforce to decide for themselves how they’re most comfortable and what will allow them to do their best work.
http://www.cio.com/article/3154989/leadership-management/why-you-should-ditch-your-dress-code.html
“We needed an easy-to-use and agile solution that could connect data in real-time from a variety of sources and then efficiently transfer that data to our global inventory management and procurement center,” said Robin Li, IT senior manager, Lenovo. “Talend’s open source architecture gave us great flexibility and stood out for its speed and effectiveness in handling massive volumes data.”
Photo: Denys Nevozhai
Top performers are able to cut through the noise of minutiae by clearly identifying strategic goals for themselves, their careers or businesses, and breaking down those goals into achievable mini-tasks by the week, by the day, and even by the hour. This lets them chip away at a problem consistently over the long term.
http://www.lifehack.org/articles/work/are-you-top-performer-workaholic.html
In general, employers are looking for the best technical and cultural fit that their budgets will allow for. While these questions will all go through their minds, the questions they end up asking usually aren’t as direct.
https://www.themuse.com/advice/5-questions-hiring-managers-think-during-interviews-but-might-not-ask
Unlike nearly all other burger chains, whose franchisees have a pretty free hand, every Shake Shack is an expression of a single intelligence. As with the meat, it’s been necessary of Shake Shack to outsource its infrastructure, but its overboss, Randy Garutti, runs the chain from its hamburger Kremlin in New York, and when any store deviates from its standard, that store is more or less immediately chastened and corrected by nerve impulses traveling instantenously along its axons.
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/food-for-men/shake-shack-secrets??src=rss