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...
You’re bound to have come across products or shops you really like without realising that the colours displayed, the music and the smell create a particularly pleasant environment. This is all because, as humans, we respond to stimuli based on our past but also on...
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 portfolio...
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 is 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...
Born in Lyon, Apostrof is growing, first in France. Therefore Paris is a must! Since few months, Apostrof is in the heart of the capital of France. Located in the 8th arrondissement, our brand new team of Experts is so happy to go wider! After...
Sourcing helps to generate potential applications during a recruitment process to fill a post. Because the quality of recruitment depends on the quality of the preparatory sourcing, sourcing is considered an activity in its own right. ‘Sourcing’ applications means going out and finding candidates who would potentially be...
