Posts by Aleksander Sokler

The sweeping success of TV formats like „Shark Tank“ or “Dragon’s Den” around the globe reflects the rising interest of entrepreneurial ventures and startups. The increased presence of startup incubators, hubs and VC’s further illustrate the high importance of successful startup ecosystems for a country’s long-term competitiveness and as driver of innovation. In general, startups…

In times of a shortage of skilled labor, employee retention is becoming increasingly important. A multitude of companies are acutely looking for skilled workers, experts, and specialists – nationally as well as internationally. Replacing an employee can cost a company up to twice a year’s salary. In addition to obvious, direct costs for termination talks,…

Companies are currently facing labour shortages; they have many open positions and are struggling to find qualified people to fill them. The key could be engaged and satisfied employees and hight employee retention.  What we have learned during the Covid pandemic is that we need to continuously work with our current employees. We need to…

Talent competition has gone global. Companies of all sizes are stepping over each other to secure qualified candidates. Since these candidates are few in number and high in demand, their geographical location has become less important, especially now that technology provides the option to collaborate remotely with no loss to productivity. When diversity, equity and…

Humanity faces a large number and variety of challenges to produce food in sufficient volume and sustainably. Among these are climate change with the different variants that affect countries in various ways (some hit by unseen droughts and others with catastrophic floods). Some of them are like reducing the carbon footprint, stopping global warming, making…

Well, another conference has come to close and we’re all back at work, nose to the grindstone. It was good and it was also busy, some things are a bit of a blur when reflecting on the experience, not least due to the early starts, “the bus leaves at 7.35”, that’s am not pm, probably…

Why do your best employees leave? During many years working in HR industry, searching, interviewing and selecting excellent candidates, I concluded that many candidates who won the selecting process have one thing in common, they are not just happy getting a new job but they are happy quitting the previous one as well. As we…

In times when stress-related symptoms such as insomnia and concentration disorders are affecting more and more people, HR leaders need to prioritize and implement employee well-being and mental health prevention programs. For the corporate culture of many companies, the employees well-being is playing an increasingly important role. Employee wellbeing is above all important to motivate…

It is our profession to support companies in searching and selecting executives and specialists. Usually, as headhunter we are contracted when the company’s own recruiting activities have remained unsuccessful recruiting processes are particularly time-consuming and complicated resources are not sufficiently available within the company or recruitment activities shall remain secret. Our clients expect us to…