Hiring overqualified candidates or not?

On the 12th of August, sHR. attended to Management and Strategy Seminar at Koç University. The seminar was about recruiter reactions to overqualified job applicants. In this article, you’ll see what we learned & how the implications of this knowledge to practice would be: In the literature, overqualified applicants can be described as people who have

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sHR. at Koç University

On the 12th of August,  sHR. attended to Management and Strategy Seminar at Faculty of Administrative Science and Economics of Koç University (https://www.ku.edu.tr/en/home). Dr. Berrin Erdoğan (Express Employment Professionals Professor of Management at Portland State University’s School of Business Administration) presented her research titled as “Recruiter Reactions to Overqualified Job Applicants”. Academicians of Koç University,

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Smile, You’re on Camera!

Video interview method is a powerful tool for recruiters, and researches show that only a quarter of companies said they didn’t use video interviews at all. So if you haven’t yet encountered a virtual interview during a job hunt, it’s likelier that you will sometime in the future. In sHR., video interviews are an important

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New Functionalities in shr-consulting.com

sHR. brings you new functionalities to make your recruitment process easier. Now it’s possible to add your resume to your application with “upload file” option! As an addition, shr-consulting.com now features some statistics about vacant positions posted, filled opportunities and number of  companies that are actively looking for candidates: Finally the site map is now existing

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Skills or Degrees

A recent article in Business News Daily is about a study which was based on surveys of 2,059 U.S. adults over the age of 18 who were employed full or part time. The survey which belongs to the online career site, Glassdoor shows that even though 82 percent of U.S. college graduates say their level of education has helped their

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Time to Comment

We are glad to announce that shr-consulting.com now has the opportunity to have your opinion about articles posted by our team in blog section! “Comment” field is now available for blog posts and by providing your name and e-mail, you can start a discussion about the topic or just let us know how the article itself made you

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Impress me!

It’s a very well known fact that making a positive first impression is important in business interviews. According to a research, people make up their minds about people they meet for the first time within two minutes. Others assert that these first impressions about people take only thirty seconds to make. Here are some tips

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Any Questions?

It’s a common thing in business interviews that hiring managers also turn the tables and ask candidates if they have any questions for them. Believe or not, this is a great opportunity to show how much and why you want this job by asking the right kind of questions! A recent article published by Mashable shows

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Are Six Seconds Enough to Get to Know You?

A recent study was released by The Ladders which tells that the recruiters spend only six seconds in average to check resumes.  It seems that more than a dozen of recruiters first check your personal information mostly to see where you live and understand if your location is fitting with the work location. Then comes

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