Personal branding for people 50+

  • Post published:07/10/2020
  • Reading time:6 mins read

Do not start your resume summary with this sentence: More than 40 years’ experience. You may ask why and what you could do instead? You don’t have to be a…

Clunky online applications – a career portal black hole

  • Post published:29/09/2020
  • Reading time:5 mins read

Where is the H in HR these days? There was a time where we talked about the Personnel Department when referring to who hired new staff, who provided training and who managed the payroll. Over the last two decades we have seen the introduction of HR as in Human Resources. One of the major differences between these two concepts is that Personnel was more reactive compared to the contemporary HR who is expected to be more proactive.

These 50 great companies have one thing in common

  • Post published:26/08/2020
  • Reading time:3 mins read

These companies are in all kinds of different industries and wanted help to find candidates in functions such as Accounting, Finance, HR, Sales, Marketing, Purchasing, Production, C-Suite, Supply Chain, Projects,…

Candidates on blind dates

  • Post published:29/07/2020
  • Reading time:7 mins read

Blind dates are sometimes good, usually bad, and always weird at the beginning. So are many interviews between a candidate and a hiring company. If you have never been on…

Job Search Tips When You’re Over 50

  • Post published:08/07/2020
  • Reading time:6 mins read

Hello Baby Boomers, Ladies and Gentlemen, all of you born between 1946 and 1964 (BE2489-2507) – or about 25% of the world’s population. Still. You are no doubt proud of…

How you hire the best-ever Sales Manager

  • Post published:02/07/2020
  • Reading time:8 mins read

Welcome to the Club. It’s a club of Hiring Managers and recruiters who are desperately looking to hire a new breed of Sales Managers. I attended a networking event yesterday…

Tom Sorensen joining NPA Worldwide

  • Post published:24/06/2020
  • Reading time:3 mins read

Tom Sorensen has joined NPAworldwide. It's a US based firm that has connected independent executive search and recruiting firms all over the world for over 50 years. NPAworldwide is the…

What if you had a crystal ball when hiring staff?

  • Post published:17/06/2020
  • Reading time:5 mins read

Well, what does this crystal ball say about the candidate you are about to hire? We all know that hiring people is a calculated risk. But how do you “calculate”…