HR professionals often carry a heavy emotional burden.  Whether it is letting someone go, issuing a disciplinary warning, or helping to resolve a conflict, much of what the modern HR professional does on a day-to-day basis requires an incredible level of empathy and professionalism. They must delicately navigate highly emotionally-charged situations, while representing their company and following policy and procedure to the letter…

No company wants employees to stay a short period of time.  The hiring process is long, on-boarding requires a lot of resource, and with each passing month the employee becomes more valuable. So what can you do to be sure you are hiring employees that stay for the long term?  Here are our top 5 tips based on our experience with candidates in the technology sector.

While almost every job requires working within a team, very few interviews are conducted in a group setting.  Many hiring managers consider doing group interviews too complicated—an added step that is hard to schedule and will delay hiring. But what if the best candidate is most obvious when observed with others?  Watching how someone interacts within a group when trying to solve a problem or answer a question can provide insights that conventional interviews simply can’t. Here we outline some pros and cons so that you can evaluate whether a group interview might work for you.

Oliver Parks continues to strengthen its partnership with the announcement of two internal promotions across the business’s key markets in Germany and the United States. The announcement highlights Oliver Parks’ commitment to growth across a number of growing technology sectors and ensures a broader depth of experience at the partnership level. The new partners, Tom Pollock and Hendrik Kuhlmann, have been promoted from their positions as Senior Managers.

Most of us know job security is an illusion.  Thousands of bankers who had stable jobs at seemingly stable institutions, found themselves without a job after the 2008 financial crisis.  There are many other examples of people that worked for growing organisations where they had a bright future, who suddenly found themselves dismissed.  Job security is therefore not a reason to stay at a job.  But are there any good reasons to leave a job, particularly if you love it? Here are a few.

It is impossible for any HR professional to be trained in all the different areas of a business they must hire for—particularly if they are responsible for technology roles that have very niche requirements. This is just one of the multitude of challenges HR professionals face in today’s workplace. HR professionals must set an example as model members of the team, be well-versed in the latest employment law and help create the right culture. But there are also a few things HR professionals can do to ensure they don’t get overwhelmed, and instead, become an invaluable gem within the heart of their organisation. Here are our top 5 tips for HR professionals in 2019.

Oliver Parks is one of the first companies to agree to the Finish recruitment industry’s most progressive set of principles. The code, known as For better recruitment, includes 5 tenants that define how recruitment firms should work in order to best help companies and job seekers. By adhering to these principles, the hope is that it will create a positive effect for the country as a whole.

Most modern offices are open plan—with colorful lounge areas and long tables where everyone sits and works alongside one another. But despite their popularity, there is a growing body of evidence suggesting open plan offices might be doing more harm than good. In fact, recent research indicates that open plan offices can decrease employee productivity, health and happiness.

Millennials took us by surprise.  They work differently, play differently and have a different set of expectations of what ‘work’ should be.  Yet Millennials are about to lose the spotlight to Generation Z as this group of youngsters begin to make their way into the workforce.

Here are 5 things you should know about this emerging generation before you begin hiring them.

Today developers must work with teams spread across multiple continents, where people speak different languages and often have different character sets. They also have to work with some code that is new and some that could be decades old. Working as a team and making sense of it all is only part of what it means to be a programmer today.