Category: HR & Management

As businesses continue to digitize and evolve, it’s increasingly important to attract young talent that’s comfortable with technology and capable of driving innovation. A trainee program is a powerful tool to help companies bridge the skills gap and foster the growth of their workforce. However, implementing such a program comes with challenges, particularly when it…

There is a lot of talk about Talent Acquisition and Employer Branding, but mostly just talk with little substance. Too often it – unfortunately – turns out that the “old” recruiting function has just been renamed to Talent Acquisition to keep up with the trend, without actually changing the operational model. Then this rebranded recruiting…

Since when I started at RELEX (as the first ever dedicated recruiting person) roughly one and a half year ago a lot has happened. Most notably we have grown from a 270 people company to a ~470 people company. It’s actually kind of wild to think that nearly 200 people have been with the company…

Human Resources (what a terrible term by the way) has not really changed that much in the last one hundred years – since its birth in the 19th century. However, what has changed even less is recruiting – at least on general level. Progress has happened. Many of us know – at least in theory…

There is a lot of mystery surrounding recruitment. There are as many opinions as there are applicants. And the opinions are mostly based on previous experiences of which most are likely less than positive. For many people the latest positive recruitment experience was the last time they got hired. Regardless, whether the process actually was…

Everything is hard when you’re in a startup and when you finally get the company of the ground – well – it gets even harder. Many startups will never need to worry about the first growth phase as they die and wither away long before that. Those few that do, will face a challenge that…

The harsh truth is that we spend more time at work than doing anything else in our lives. This even when most of the other things like hanging out with the family or watching ‘The Walking Dead’ are things that most people would prefer. For most people work is a mandatory evil, something you have…

Thanks to books like Linus Jonkman’s ‘Introverts: The Silent Revolution’ extroversion and introversion have become the hot topic of late. This is positive news as the topic is indeed important and deserves to be discussed. Here is my take on the subject. Andrea Ayres-Deets encapsulates the stereotypic description of an introvert splendidly: “Once I was…