Recent TRG blog posts

The world of technologies recently is buzzing with a new terminology: “networked analytics”, which was marketed as the technology behind cloud-based Business Intelligence solution from Birst (recently acquired by Infor). Such breakthrough is expected to help businesses to manipulate data much better than what we are currently doing.

Hard skills can be trained while soft skills are harder to teach and takes time to fully develop. Soft skills are the elements that build up and strengthen relationships in the workplace. It reflects how people conduct their tasks and behave in the workplace environment. Soft skills usually include personal qualities, attitude and behaviour of an employee when they are at work. 

In this modern era, when everyone wants to do things faster, most candidates will agree to spend twice as much time doing interactive assessments related to work instead of answering the traditional questionnaires or logic tests. This is a good thing because it means that the candidate actually uses their minds when doing the assessments, and the results will be much more accurate.

Read more: Everything you need to know about the candidate experience

To stay competitive in today’s fast-changing world, all retailers must use technology to aid their business processes and to better meet customers’ expectations and requirements. Let’s have a look at some retail technology trends in 2018 and in the near future.

Read more: AI’s Benefits in Business (P.1)

Over the past 10 years, thousands of developers have flocked to Mountain View, California, to learn about the latest innovations and announcements from the software giant at the Google I/O conference (short for input/output in terms of web development).

More than 7,000 people attended Google's three-day conference this year (from 8th to 10th May) and were provided with a comprehensive picture of Google's upcoming developments. This 2018 event has confirmed some technology trends which are expected to be widespread in the near future.

Read more: Why Google says no to job interviews

Over the past decade, candidate’s view on recruitment has changed rapidly, from passively looking for a recruiting post on newspaper, to actively looking for jobs and choosing which company they want to work for via the Internet. This shift was mainly initiated since the Millennial generation began to join the workforce. With their constant availability online, organisations have to change their way of approaching candidate and keeping themselves at the forefront of the job market.

In today’s business, many enterprises use assessments throughout various phases of the recruitment process to find out more about the candidates. There are many types of assessments available, but the most successful job fit assessments use psychometrics to increase consistency and efficiency in recruiting.

Read more: Fitting the Right Person to the Right Position with Job Fit Solution

In particular, what will psychometric-based Job Fit Solutions do, and how do they support the recruitment process?

Earlier this year, Gartner published their 2018 Magic Quadrant for Analytics and Business Intelligence Platforms mentioning the trend of upgrading traditional solutions as well as expanding portfolios with new vendors as the market innovates on ease of use and augmented analytics.

Professional development can be a tough challenge since not everyone knows what to focus on. What skills should we learn to adapt well with the changing environment? Which sets of skills do our employers expect us to have?

Our modern lives are now being run by machines, artificial intelligence and virtual reality, that’s why knowing what employers will be looking for in the future is a really smart move.

Read more: Three Pitfalls to Avoid in Leadership Development

Here we give you the list of “10 skills employers will need in 2020:

Industry 4.0 is seeping through every corner to transform the way we handle our day-to-day business. The revolution in many ways has helped us to digitalise various processes from design to manufacturing and to help us to better understand and make full use of the overwhelming data volume.