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Operational cost cutting has always been a retailers’ favourite tool to boost their bottom line. It is even more crucial for Walmart as the giant’s key competitive edge is price. And Walmart has found that substantial cost savings can come from seemingly small actions.

How do you define a quality Pre-hire assessment? Today, the role of pre-hire assessments has progressively increased. They help identify the right fit for the vacancies at your company as well as predict the candidate’s performance in the future.

CIOs cannot afford to ignore disruptions in technology. According to Gartner, these are the 7 future disruptive technologies that CIOs should be aware of:

As mentioned in Part 1, when looking for new employees, the recruiting advert will be one of the crucial features that attract the right talents with the same goals as the organisation. Moreover, the recruiter’s decision on who to hire can be notably influenced by their experience and assumptions, causing the hiring process to be frustrating for both sides.

There have been many efforts to learn and analyse the drives behind the way humans behave, and more specifically, to understand how employers and candidates make decisions before and after the hiring process. It is revealed through behavioural science that most of our actions are decided under the influence of automatic, instinctive and intuitive thought processes.

Online shopping is moving onwards and upwards. Consumers now can buy basically everything without ever setting foot inside a physical store. And when it comes to e-commerce, no one can escape the shadow that Amazon casts. But that does not mean all brick-and-mortar retailers are getting crushed.  

The days of marriage lasting forever and the days of an employee working at one company forever are long gone. Let’s face it; it is uncommon for an employee to remain at one company for more than 5 years. Although companies cannot prevent employee turnover, they can take steps to reduce their turnover rate and increase employee tenure. So, why do employees choose to end the relationship and voluntarily leave a company?

Infor SunSystems, among the first Infor products hosted in the cloud, is about to have some more major upgrades: smoother integration with other systems, better security, and functional enhancements.

The life of a middle manager can be a harrowing one.  You may be given many problems, but not necessarily the direct authority over many of the players to easily carry out the solution. Follow this recipe for critical success in managing from the middle.

As we mentioned in Part 1 of this article, the last 2 mistakes are going to reveal detail about how interviewers can make the interview much less effective than expected.