Questions to T&T Recruiting Professionals

The Questions from our five winners and the answers from our panel of HR professionals.

What matters more when you are recruiting candidates; qualifications (degree, diploma etc) or past job experience?

Why age is a factor when hiring persons? Young tend to equal to immaturity.

Isn’t emotional intelligence as equal as one’s IQ when hiring someone?

Why is the reasoning for not hiring individuals “we are looking for someone with more experience”?

What’s the reason for saying “I’ll contact you at further notice” wen y’all already know who’s gonna be hired?

 

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How to Create a Personal Budget

This Personal Finance tip is sponsored by CariDollarsAndSense, a JobsTT partner.

If you read Cari$ Rules for Financial Freedom, you’ll notice our first rule is “No Budget? No Chance”. What this means is that we fundamentally believe taking control of your finances and achieving Financial Freedom is only possible when you have a personal budget. While we provide a lot of detailed guidance in our Budgeting Series, the purpose of this post is to summarize the process of creating a budget, so you have a big-picture view before diving into the details.

http://caridollarsandsense.com/how-to-create-personal-budget/

How to Handle Difficult Conversations

Be prepared and gather your thoughts before the conversation

  • Take time to understand the real reason you want to talk to the person.
  • If you want to blame, make them feel bad, stick it to them etc, then you may get your wish, but it will be a very difficult and uncomfortable conversation and you may make things worse. Therefore defer the conversation until you calm down.
  • Take the time to understand why these feelings /thoughts were evoked in you, so that you become more aware of yourself and you can share this clearly with the person when the time is right.
  • Decide on what you want the outcome the conversation to be – Big Hint your outcome should be a win/win.

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Cari$ Rules for Financial Freedom

This Personal Finance tip is sponsored by CariDollarsAndSense, a JobsTT partner.

Advice and advisors are plentiful for individuals who have surplus funds—at least in the low hundreds of thousands of dollars—to invest. But it is easy to forget that the majority of the working population would not consider themselves “rich” or “wealthy”. Instead, the majority earn a normal income, have a small or limited savings pool, and face normal money challenges and choices in order to grow their savings.

http://caridollarsandsense.com/cari-rules-financial-freedom/

Career Management – Essential for Financial Security

This Personal Finance tip is sponsored by CariDollarsAndSense, a JobsTT partner.

We debated for a while whether to include a career management section in the website, and ultimately we decided we must because managing your career is a critical component of financial security. Having stable, steadily progressive employment is the major way most of us grow our level of income and savings.

http://caridollarsandsense.com/career-management-essential-financial-security/