Zukunft Personal

With Christmas and New Year’s Day almost upon us, this is a great time to review the past 12 months. For eConscribi, 2014 was another exciting year with plenty more ups than downs. Let’s take a look back at some of the highlights!

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In March we started our very own blog, with new posts published approximately every second Monday of each month, and topics covering everything eRecruitment and HR-related, as well as internal eConscribi news. In 2014, our top three most-read blog posts were:

Our last post, “eRecruitment’s Future Looks Bright. Pack Your Sunglasses!”, covered eRecruitment’s future, and the impressions and input we took from Zukunft Personal (which, if you recall, translates to “Human Resources’ future”) in Cologne, Germany, last month. We promised to further discuss some terms we’ll be hearing a lot about in the coming weeks and months: Terms like “online assessments”, “online interview tools” and “social media”, and the role that each plays in eRecruitment. Without further ado, let’s dive in!

eConscribi recently attended the 16th annual Zukunft Personal exhibition in Cologne, Germany. Zukunft Personal is Europe’s largest Human Resources Management exhibition, and this show marked eConscribi’s fourth consecutive appearance. “Zukunft” is German for “future”, and “personal” means, well, “personal”, so “Zukunft Personal” essentially translates to “Human Resources’ future”. The three-day exhibition welcomes a global array of HR decision makers from a variety of organizations, including private companies, government entities and non-profits.

Our booth was busy throughout the show and we had the pleasure of talking with a number of interesting and inspiring HR folks. The only downside to this welcome popularity is that we didn’t have much time to listen to the show’s great speakers; however, while browsing the show’s program, we saw that buzzwords like “qualified employees”, “motivation” and “ROI” (Return on Investment) were common threads in several speakers’ presentations. Moreover, during our many talks with HR professionals of all titles and organizational backgrounds, we continuously heard key terms such as “online assessments”, “interview tools” and “social media”.