Guess what. I'm supposed to be interviewing 2 sales executives today and a few things happened.
First, my admin officer, in her hurry, forgot to print out the resume for both candidates.
Second, she has been calling them both since yesterday but nobody answered the phone.
She needed to be told that in such situations she should call other candidates to see if they could turn up instead.
Both candidates didn't turn up. There are various possible reasons why they did not turn up or switched off
their phones, and there is no point in going through them one by one.
They are just not the right people we want in our organization.
I expect at least the courtesy of a phone call or an email to say that he or she cannot make the appointment.
Well, we'll move on to the next few candidates then. Next ....
The life of an entrepreneur is not easy. There are lessons to be learnt all the time. The challenge is to turn existing problems into business assets and cash cows, master finance and human resource matters eg staffing, form a team of leaders,networking and converting work into fun etc. When your assets grow, and the number of employees grow, the question is : are you tough enough?
Friday, October 21, 2011
Branson and the Virgin Business Challenge
Virgin founder Richard Branson was in New Zealand to launch the Virgin Business Challenge, and the grand prize includes an hour with Richard Branson to get some entrepreneurial insight.
"We know that there are many New Zealand businesses with the potential to succeed at the highest level and through the Virgin Business Challenge we hope to be able to play a role in helping them overcome the challenge of going global."
Hey, come over to Malaysia, Richard !
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Thursday, October 20, 2011
Business expansion into Indonesia, anyone?
Today our Chief Operating Officer is leaving for a trip to Indonesia. Hope he gets some valuable information and networking there!
Meanwhile we are having a meeting this afternoon with our Web Developers and some SEO experts.
Hope we understand their jargons. There is also the small matter of preparing 2 corporate videos for our launch.
What I do know from Google SEO is that it is not really that important to be no.1 for a search keyword. Just be no.2 to 5 and that's already a BIG achievement.
Meanwhile we are having a meeting this afternoon with our Web Developers and some SEO experts.
Hope we understand their jargons. There is also the small matter of preparing 2 corporate videos for our launch.
What I do know from Google SEO is that it is not really that important to be no.1 for a search keyword. Just be no.2 to 5 and that's already a BIG achievement.
Interviewing before hiring
It's the time of the year again. I'm hiring people to join the company which I've just started. This company will basically deliver an online Property Portal as a business by year-end.
We have to start small but start we will. To do that, I advertised for job positions in various online webpages namely Mudah, jobstreet and jenjobs. Great response , thanks to the Ads. We've been interviewing people for almost a month now and so far I've hired 4 people to join the company.
The positions they've filled are Admin officer, Personal Manager, Business Development Manager and a Sales Executive.
The admin officer has started work. She's hardworking & good natured. She's doing all the necessary data entry for our website so far.
The others are starting in November. Interesting times ahead.
We have to start small but start we will. To do that, I advertised for job positions in various online webpages namely Mudah, jobstreet and jenjobs. Great response , thanks to the Ads. We've been interviewing people for almost a month now and so far I've hired 4 people to join the company.
The positions they've filled are Admin officer, Personal Manager, Business Development Manager and a Sales Executive.
The admin officer has started work. She's hardworking & good natured. She's doing all the necessary data entry for our website so far.
The others are starting in November. Interesting times ahead.
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