7 tips for virtual onboarding
If I had asked any of my CEO clients 15 weeks ago whether they would recruit and onboard a director virtually, they would have laughed. How times change because in our recent survey 29% of our respondents said that they would do exactly this…and indeed over recent times, theory has become the reality. As ever, […]
Essential Pre-Boarding Tips To Improve Hiring
Executive recruitment of promising new leaders typically has good companies focussing on the onboarding process, but amazing companies pre-board as well. Pre-board I hear you ask, what is this? For us, pre-boarding is a proactive strategic approach to assimilating your new employee well before their first day in the office (if offices still exist). It […]
How to recruit remotely: 10 tips from expert headhunters
HR consulting remote jobs could feel foreign to you. Making an offer without ever having met the person face to face seems like a strange idea at first but then so does having a team meeting hosted from a colleagues bedroom as their cat rests on their laptop and children are singing in the lounge […]
Workplace of the future: Is the office up to the job?
There’s no point pretending that everything is going back to normal. It simply isn’t. Whether this lockdown is sustained or not, a paradigm shift has taken place in the minds of those employees still with jobs, and they’re all wondering the same thing: why did they ever need to go to the office in the […]
The right remote communication tools for the job: from Slack to Snapchat
In the last month staying connected has become more important than ever. Between lockdown and social distancing, our person to person contact has almost disappeared. Co-workers have either been replaced by spouses, small children, pets or Netflix. Whilst some of us may flourish working at home, without the distractions of the office tea round, others […]
How to furlough employees and workers
Furlough, a word many of us were unacquainted with before, now seems to be on the lips of every business reporter. Slowing down business, or pulling the brakes, is not an easy decision to make. Balancing the books alongside employees is a juggling act many leaders are facing. Some of them are making headlines for […]
Three ways to grow your ecommerce sales
What can be done to make your ecommerce business more profitable in the year ahead? ORESA looks a three essential actions to take. While online sales have been a relatively modest percentage of the total turnovers of most retailers, the fact that many of these ecommerce transactions have been barely profitable, if at all, […]
How to answer tricky interview questions
Mastering a competency interview is one of the most important skillsets you can develop when seeking your next C-Suite opportunity. Whilst many of our C-level candidates believe their experience and successes should justify a more informal ‘meeting’, our clients want to ensure that a senior interview is robust enough. General questions only really allow […]
Why you should consider hiring a Chief Customer Officer (CCO)
Increasingly, we hear about retailers focusing more on ‘knowing’ their customers – but what does that actually mean? The wonders of digital technology enable us to develop a clear picture of consumer shopping patterns. Yet with Big Data and multichannel developments galvanising the industry, the retail sector has encountered two serious difficulties. The first is […]
Five secrets to building a successful retail start-up
Adam Black Adam Black can sleep easy at night and not just because he’s in the mattress business. The founder of Feather & Black, Button & Sprung and the Secret Linen Store now has a new venture called Drift Sleep which is significantly changing the way consumers purchase mattresses. We picked his brains for business advice […]
