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Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) has had a long history of experience in serving the manufacturing industry. Many businesses nowadays realise that the legacy systems can no longer keep up with today’s dynamic customer’s demands. Therefore, an ERP system that can reflect such change and has the ability to respond quickly to changes is one of the main factors that differentiates one company from the rest.

The hiring process is no longer a one-sided journey for the candidate only, organisations are making a considerable investment in hopes of finding the shining talent that fits perfectly into their culture. Within your recruiting process, the candidate experience acts as a factor, a direct reflection on the company’s brand and culture. It reveals a great deal about how a company nurtures their talent pool and differentiates itself from competitors as candidates’ expectations change.

Pop-up retail, or pop-up stores, flash sales, just like the name implies, is a retail store that open only for a short period of time. Many e-commerce businesses are using this trend to create a unique and exclusive shopping experience for their customers whilst test out the physical retail environment or to seek out new prospects.  

CheapCaribbean used to heavily rely on Excel for data analysis, which was very time-consuming and not effective at realising the value of their data. In order to become a truly data-driven organisation, CheapCaribbean has adopted Birst, a leading cloud Business Intelligence solution provider. Its breadth of functionalities meets all of the company’s analytics needs while the modern networked analytics architecture is a perfect match with CheapCaribbean’s vision of taking the business to the next level. See what Jason Seiple, the Director of Data Analytics at CheapCaribbean, has to say about Birst in the following video.

Companies, regardless of their sizes, are in a fierce competition more than ever to attract, acquire and retain the best suitable candidates. In this digital age, job search has moved from newspapers, job boards to the Internet.

Candidates nowadays are more selective in finding their ideal jobs. With just a few mouse clicks, they can easily find information about the position, the hiring company, the company culture, the working environment, etc. As such, in order to attract high-quality talents, your organisation needs to create a positive candidate experience.

Along with the rapid change of the business world, recruitment becomes more and more complicated. Apart from the traditional job interview, nowadays, there are some other modern alternatives that are worth trying. One of them is the pre-hire assessments.

Read more: What are the better alternatives to traditional job interviews?

Although there are several forms for pre-hire assessments, the most common one is online tests, which include many kinds of questionnaires and marking systems for candidates to fulfil.

Pre-hire assessments are important parts of the recruitment process that evaluate the candidate's technical abilities and behaviours related to the position being applied. They are a scientifically-proven predictive method of measuring how candidates perform tasks.

What are pre-hire assessments?

Pre-hire assessments can be surveys, tests, or questionnaires that potential candidates need to do as one stage of the hiring or interview process. These assessments can predict the candidate's future behaviour while performing the job.

Read more: 5 Reasons Why You Should Not Refrain from Recruiting Fresh Graduate

Internet of Things, or IoT, is a familiar term, which stands for the connection between “things” through the internet. IoT opens up the doors to the bright future where technology makes your life easier than ever. Day by day, our lives are connected more to the internet via devices, applications or services which is the result of non-stop developing in every industry.

The recruitment process nowadays is vastly different from what the older generations experienced in the past. Now, it is more candidate-driven. Long were the days where candidates saw a job ad via the newspaper classified so they decided to whip up their portfolios and hand-wrote their application forms. The candidates then proceeded to mail the package away and patiently waited for the company’s response.

Any fully-integrated business system is a dangerous investment that is not simple . For its complexity, a little knowledge of how your enterprise works is never enough. In the first, second and third parts, we have discussed some dangerous mistakes that can be easily ignored in the selecting process, the connectivity and Cloud ERP packages.

Read the first 3 parts by clicking here: part 1, part 2 and part 3

Read more: Infor CloudSuite Industrial and Real-time Business Indicators (P.1)