Before the end-of-year celebrations, everyone’s thinking about how they look. Everyone wants to dress up to show all its splendour. We wanted to know whether beauty matters the rest of the year, in recruitment processes. The dominant theory in behavioural science is that being attractive gives...
Find out more about headhunting, the precision recruitment method, in the cartoon made by our partner SYDO (education consultancy). Because executives and senior managers have specific skills and requirements, they also have a specific employment market. With unemployment below 5%, there is almost full employment among professionals at executive level, which means they do not...
The internet is full of psychometric tests, and especially personality tests. So how do you choose the right one from this plethora of tools? Personality tests are commonly used in France: one in every two executives sat tests when they were last recruited, and for one in every four recruitment...
People don’t just communicate with words. Our bodies and faces also provide important information about us. Our posture, gestures, facial expressions, tics, distance, and even our clothing are significant. Paying attention to the body position and gestures of the person you’re talking to lets you understand them better,...
About TNT Express France To identify the key skills and potential of operational managers at TNT Express France, Apostrof developed a tailor-made assessment programme run as an assessment center. TNT Express is one of the world’s largest express delivery companies. On a daily basis, TNT Express delivers close to one...
About Pierre & Vacances Center Parcs Group Formed in 1967, the Pierre & Vacances Center Parcs Group is the European leader in local tourism. With its other tourism brands – Pierre & Vacances, Pierre & Vacances premium, Center Parcs, Sunparks, Aparthotels Adagio and Maeva – the Group now operates a...
The latest study published by DREES contains some surprising figures from 2014 on women’s role in society: one fifth of the French population believes that a mother’s place is at home, and 15% of the working population would prefer a male manager (compared with only 3% who would...
Direct approach recruitment, more familiarly known as ‘headhunting’, these days are not solely used for executives. A shortage of certain types of professional profile and the need for very specific operational skills are spurring recruiters to make greater use of this particular recruitment method. It involves approaching a number of known...
Slow Business means working less to work better. It’s about managing your own time and your team’s time better by stopping running around after it. This new trend recommends a better work/life balance to achieve greater efficiency at work. It makes quite an appealing slogan! Slow Business = Working slowly? Contrary...
You’ve found the perfect candidate, and following a number of interviews with them, you’d like to take the process further. So, what about running an assessment center? What actually lies behind the title? Following on from personality tests, assessment centers reached French shores in the...
