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The length of the hiring process can have a big impact on a company’s recruitment efforts, says a seasoned entrepreneur and executive, who believes that a single day is enough to screen and appoint a candidate. “I think the biggest takeaway…is how you find the right people,” Rance Hesketh told Via News Agency when asked…
Failure to focus on the long-term vision of a business and over-extending the scope of its activities could result in vulnerability, says a senior entrepreneurial executive, who calls it a “folly” to pursue growth rather than profit. “There’s too much short-termism, and that short-termism is ultimately very damaging. It’s damaging to the [company’s] culture in…
Motion design can play a key role in advancing the communication and marketing campaigns of companies, especially small businesses, says an industry expert. “Motion design is the future of communication,” Cyril-Mickaël Callejon, CEO and producer at Directive Première, a France-based audiovisual production and post-production company, told Via News in an interview. Cyril made the comments…
I established two startups in the course of three years. I closed down my first company in 2018 after around a year of operation and my second startup is about to disappear into the annals of history. It must hurt a lot, right? But I’m so glad that I failed and failed fast because it…
The recruitment industry is shifting from talent acquisition to talent access and there are great opportunities for hiring platforms that embrace change and morph with the latest trends, says an industry professional. “Recruitment fundamentally is about acquiring people for the company: I hire you, you work for me, no one else. But that is a…
Investors can be a “big distraction” for startups that are in the early stages of their entrepreneurial journey, says the CEO of NomadX, who believes that founders should beware of investment baiting. “We were thinking about actually raising some money at the end of [2018], but we realized we weren’t quite ready for it yet….
Social media is no longer a foreign concept, at least to more than 3.5 billion people on the internet. Notably, the number of people using any form of social media has been on the rise in the early 2000s. The social media landscape has evolved so much that companies that were prominent earlier are nowhere today in…
