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It is said the real asset for a company is the skill levels and dedication of their employees. It is after all the hard work of employees that propels a business forward. In the light of such comments, it is easy to understand the value of good recruitment. But unless you are a very large company, having a team of HR professionals especially meant for recruitment is not a good idea. Even when you have a team of HR professionals you are not always assured that the best candidates are rounded up for the interviews. This is where technology, in the form of the modern day CV management software can help you. So, let us read a bit more about such software.

Job Search has shifted online!

Today, the jobseekers are hardly seen walking up to your front desk and applying with the hard copies of their CV. That has become a practice of the past years. Each of the companies now has a specifically designed Jobs or Employment section where the applicants can provide their due details and upload their Resume. For the applicants, job searches have become all the more simple. But just ponder over the pressure upon your HR team. They have to scuffle through hundreds even thousands of resumes, depending on the fame of your organization. In such a scenario it takes many days of hard work for them to separate the relevant resumes from the others. CV management software simplifies this arduous process with its various options.

Easy Integration

Just like other modern day software, CV Management software also comes with the easy integration feature. You can quite easily integrate it with the earlier legacy software or even mails. This means all the resumes coming in for your vacancy would be neatly arranged inside the software. All you have to do is open the software and shortlist the likable candidates. This can significantly shorten the recruitment time.

Easy to use

The software comes with a dashboard that is simple to use. As you start using the software you will find how simple it has made your task of recruiting. You can search resumes based on specific skillsets, CTC expectations, experience levels, etc. Just decide on any criteria you want to search by, and the software will show you filtered results.

Passive Candidate Management

This is an important benefit of using the software. In the past there might have been some candidates you had liked and wanted to recruit. But the pieces did not fall in place. You can always draw out such resumes for the present job opening, by using the software. This again would save you much time!

With a robust CV management software by your side, the recruitments can be a fun affair. Try using Keyline’s very own custom CV management software and feel the difference!

No matter how prominent a location you have chosen for your business, it would not deliver the high turnover you have estimated until you go online. Today, the purchase of products and services has largely shifted to the online model, in such a time you need to have a website up there on the World Wide Web and that too in quick time. Lucky you stumbled upon this blog, as we are about to discuss these facets – how to build a website within the quickest time frame without a complicated process. Here it goes…

Step-I

• Choose your web hosting and domain name: To have an address on the web you need to have a domain name along with a capable web hosting services provider. Now, there are many free hosting services that would be a great lure for you. But they come with the condition that your business name would be followed by a web hosting services’ name in the suffix. This does not look professional, so you need to use paid services and use high speed as well as secured hosting along side suitable domain name.

Step-II

• Create a website with WordPress: Your web hosting services would aid in one click WordPress installation. All you have to do is login to your hosting account, click on “Visit my account”, select the purchased domain and create login details for your Cpanel account. While you are logged in the in the Cpanel, navigate through Web Application section and click on the WordPress icon. Next, click on the “Install Now” button and you can access your new WordPress website. After the installation is complete, replace www.yoursite.com/wp-login.php with your domain name and you are done!
• Choose a Theme/Template for Website: Once the installation is complete, you can find a clean version of your WordPress website. Though the clean look is good, but it does not have the desired customized appeal you would require for a business website. So, you need to visit the “Appearance” section of the WP back-end and then browse through the abundance of “Themes” there. You can customize thousands of free themes present there. It is mention worthy here, that the theme chosen should be responsive which helps the website have a similar look and feel across various devices.

Step-III

• Add or Edit Pages: Once the theme is installed, it is now time to fill your website with content and accompanying images. So, click on the “Pages” section of the WP sidebar and click on “Add New”. It will open up the WordPress editor, which resembles with a conventional Microsoft Word file. Name the new page (About us, Services, etc.) and start putting in the content and images.
• Create a Menu: Now, you would like to create a navigation bar for your website. So you have to simply visit “Appearance” option and click on “Menus”. Find the content page you have already created and then “Add to Menu”.
• Create Posts: If you are planning on having a Blog on your website, then you need to turn attention towards “Posts”. To integrate a Blog, visit the “Menu” and include “Blog” in it. Create categories for Blog by visiting “Posts” and then “Categories”. You are ready to start posting blogs!
• Change the Title and Tagline: Page titles tell the surfers what your website is about and they play an important part in SEO. So, the title should explain your offerings, include some keywords, and should be written in a natural way. Every page in your website should have an unique title. Taglines should also be added at the end of titles across all pages.
• Set up a Static Front Page: If you do not want your Home page to look like a blog, then you have to turn it into a “Static” page. A static page is a page which does not change like the blogs. The Home page will show the same content each time a visitor comes to your website and it will have the design elements you have included in the back-end. To set up the static page you need to visit the “Settings” option from WP sidebar and then click on “Reading”. Choose the static page you have already created and make it into “Front Page”.

And you are ready to start your business journey in the online world!

So, you have just taken the first step towards a glorious business future, by launching a company of your own. Congratulations on that! One of the heartening things about having a business of your own is that you decide on the way you and everyone else works. Now that we have reflected on the glories of business startups let us also not forget the challenging road ahead. Your first task is to thwart some of the well established names in your niche and put a claim on their market share. For this to happen, you need to go online first. You might have already thought about it, you might have also listed it down. You need to procure a domain (with suitable business name), fast speed (and reliable) hosting, and then start working on the website. First comes the design, then development, followed by content and finally SEO. With your stipulated recruitment budget, finding an experienced (often a team of) professional for the specialized tasks is not the best way to go about it. This is where the dedicated hiring model can be of immense help. Let us see how you can reap benefits from this model.

• Cost Factor: Compared to the other modes, dedicated hiring costs half or even less of the total costs you would have to pay to a full time or part time employee. Even individual service costs of web development, design, SEO or content development are much higher than dedicated hiring rates. Money-wise it is the perfect fit for startup businesses.

• Accountability Issue: In the dedicated hiring model, one of the senior professionals works for you on a regular basis. You have the authority to assign work, supervise and ask for updates. It is just like having an employee, who is sitting at an offshore location and not under your direct payroll. You can even set goals for the professional, after mutual consent, and speed up the process.

• Set-up requirements: With the dedicated hiring model you bypass many of the hassles in the design, development and marketing process. You end up saving all the money that would have been needed to purchase computers, software licenses and other working essentials. Everything is taken care of by the dedicated hiring service provider. With only one monthly payment, you stay away from many tensions.

• Training needs: If you still want to recruit a team of in-house professionals, then let us point out another area of concern. With a stipulated recruitment budget, you will not be able to employ the best and experienced professionals around. So, you have to train them or pay handsome fees to a Consultant for guiding them. All these costs can be saved with the help of dedicated hiring model.

The dedicated hiring model opens up a world of opportunities for the startup business owner, so are you ready to embrace it now?

Mobiles have become the new age web access points and the apps have become the new scopes of earning sales. Given this, the goal of every business is to have an app of their own. But, the old adage of “put it up there and they will come” does not work with mobile apps. No matter which niche business you are in, you have to overcome stiff competition to find a place in the users mobile (through app downloads). But, that is not all, an app can be uninstalled as quickly as it was installed. So, you have to dish out a superior experience to the users, whether it is through the offerings or by easy to find information. This can be attained with the help of a good UI (User Interface). Experts opine that UI is the most decisive factor in making an app successful or just one out of millions. So, today we take a look through some of the best practices of UI design.

• Clarity: Good UI designs do not confuse the users. They make it clear through language, visuals and well demarcated features. The best apps out there don’t have any user manuals, as they are so simple to use.

• Familiarity: When you use buttons, features or call-to-actions that the users are quite familiar with, they do not get lost. You can use icons, symbols or even colors (such as Red for Exit) to convey the message. By making your app familiar you inspire even the first time users to go through all the features and options.

• Responsiveness: The speed of an app is also essential for good experience. Messages that inform the user just what is happening at the back-end is a good way of keeping the users engaged. Suppose the user is making a purchase, just include a message which says “your purchase is being confirmed”.

• Consistency: Just like any other areas of branding, an app should remain consistent in its looks and feel. Each new feature should have the same usage pattern, so that the user can apply interface knowledge from one page into using another.

• Aesthetics: While it is not necessary, but users are more prone to use an app that looks attractive. A variety of color and patterns make the user’s time on the app very enjoyable.

• Fat Fingers: Researchers believe there are three different ways in which people hold their devices while browsing. Keeping this in mind, you should not make cursors or buttons thin. Users should be able to click on the features and buttons easily, and to attain this you have to make the buttons thicker.

While the best apps in your niche would have thousands of downloads each day, there are others which get none. Which category do you want to belong?

We are in 2017, and it is a pity that web hosting still remains an afterthought for most businesses. While everyone now understands the imperativeness of a having a website up there on the world wide web, they are still ready to cut corners when it comes to web hosting.

Let me explain how web hosting can impact you. Suppose, you have built the most beautiful house and are ready to host a housewarming party, only to realize that none of the guests could actually make it because your house is in a very secluded location. That would not please you right? So, connectivity is imperative to your house, in the online world your website can achieve this with the aid of a capable web hosting service provider. Still thinking? Let me throw in another example. Now you have bought a really cheap plot of land, and build a beautiful house on it. Some days after moving in you find all the precious things have been robbed one night. Moreover, you find out that your house is in an area with high crime rate, would you be able to live on in peace, ever? Cheap web hosting can similarly give you sleepless nights. With the hope of having proved my point, let us now come to why investing in web hosting should be a prime decision this year.

• Fast Loading: Now, I have statistics from Kissmetrics to prove the downsides of slow page loading. The statistics suggests that average Internet surfers would wait for no more than 6 seconds to view a page in its complete form (with content, design and graphics). And this can be attained only when the web host offers lightening fast speed leading to really quick loading time. Just ponder – what is the point of bringing thousands of visitors to your website if they cannot read or see your website in its entire form?

• Minimum Downtime: Again, every web host would need to change things around a bit and this would lead to downtime. But what matters is the time span when your website is not available on the web. Best web hosts make sure that all their maintenance tasks are performed during the late hours of night when the traffic is supposed to be less. Just think how embarrassing it would be if you were in the middle of an important business deal and about to proudly show your website just to find that it is down and remains so for many hours!

• Data Security: A scary statistic was projected by Net IQ; it stated that more than 70% of small businesses suffered from cyber attacks. And I am sure investigation would point fingers at the inadequacies of the web host. Web hosting is a big responsibility and protecting data security needs a lot of stringent measures. Web hosts, who are after quick money, do not care for elaborate security set-ups. And when that happens, the already reluctant customers would not like to share their personal details with you. You know better, how this will impact your business.

• Safe Payments: e-Commerce is a huge market today. Every business wants to benefit, and increase their online revenues. But you have to think as a customer. How often do you enter the PIN code in front of an overseeing crowd at an ATM? You do not do that right? Similarly, why should you expect the customer to transact with you if the banking details and all other confidential information cannot be guaranteed to be kept safe? More than 60% of transactions would not be processed because the customer felt insecure at the last moment. Now that is a telling figure and could have led to lakhs of profits! Do you want to lose all that money coming your way?

• Server Load Handling: You spend so much of money in promotions to see your website get a high volume of traffic. But when it happens, you find that the website has crashed and is not able to handle the excess volume. That means you should have a scalable solution and trust only a web host who can provide you that.

Hope, you would now see web hosting in a new light and take better decisions in this regard

Dedicated Hiring: Leading Marketplace Trend for 2017

In a recent study conducted across many countries on the leading workplace trends for 2017 it was found that dedicated hiring or outsourcing would be a force to reckon with this year. With the average tenure of employees on a massive low (hitting 1.2 years), businesses in most developed nations are hit by a new problem – recruiting quality man force for the job at hand and then retaining the skilled employee for many years. Studies estimate that the businesses in the US have suffered billions of dollars worth losses due to shifting loyalties of employees. In such times, outsourcing model is the way to fall back for most businesses. And within this model, the dedicated hiring services make sure you have a virtual employee doing the entire job a full time employee sitting within your business premises would do. Now, let us find some other reasons that make dedicated hiring from an offshore IT company such an attractive proposition.

• The Cost Factor: Recruiting an experienced employee in the US can cost many thousand dollars each month. If the same responsibilities are put on an experienced employee at an offshore location, through the dedicated hiring model, then you could save more than half of the expenses. All that money could be used to enhance business reach and launch new services. Think about it!
• Talent Pool: Not undermining the talent in developed countries in anyway, it can be said that India and other outsource hotspots have a vast pool of talented professionals. Apart from great educational background to sound technical skills, they possess it all. If you thought latest technologies would be too hot to handle for the hired remote employees, then you are under a wrong idea. Each of the companies in India and other outsourcing destinations has a dedicated Research and Development team. The role of this team is to keep an eye on the modern technological advancements and inform or train the employees likewise.
• Time & Delivery: You cannot let go of such an advantageous proposition just because the time zones don’t match! Even if you are worried about this time gap, let us inform you most outsourcing companies in India have their offices open 24X7 to negate this factor. You can talk, discuss and get updates for your work any time that fits your schedule. Another thing that would fit into your business plans ideally is the timeliness of deliveries. The full time employees may fail to meet the deadlines, but the dedicated hiring resources would seldom do that.
• No Employee Turnover Losses: When you recruit an employee you not only pay the salary, but also spend significantly in training and getting the employee at par with the requirements. When the employee leaves, the process starts again and the growth curve comes to a halt. The employee turnover rates in the developing nations are much higher than those witnessed in the leading outsourcing hubs such as India. Even if your virtual employee leaves, you do not have to worry about anything. It is up to the service provider to find an ideal replacement and move the work at the same pace. This can be a great solace for every business owner.

Seeing such helpful features, it is no wonder that the dedicated hiring model was, is and will be a factor for business success.