Saturday, October 19, 2013

Process of Recruitment

The recruitment process involves many things before you nail down the right candidate for your business. In this article, we have listed the most important things that are essential in recruitment process.

Understanding job analysis
Define a particular role by describing in functional terms such as responsibility, skill, task, etc. Performance of the existing team should be looked into, to know how it works, what is the role of the team or if there is anything that you are missing out.

Understanding what you actually want
You should be clear on what type of candidate you require. You should know how to communicate with each other at different levels, ways of dealing with the customers and suppliers, etc. You should know about the culture, values and beliefs you want in the employees for the business.

Writing the job description
  • Defining the role broadly
  • What accountability, responsibilities and tasks are involved?
  • What opportunities and challenges will involve?
  • What kind of person is required to fit in your organization?
Deciding about the process of selection
Once you are decided on the job description, next you need to properly assess the candidate and select the one that best suits the job role. You can have a few rounds of interview where you can test the aptitude, reasoning, verbal and analytical skills of the candidate. It will make the recruitment process easy for you.

Identifying sources

Advertising in news papers or hiring a reputed recruitment agency will help you reach out to many candidates. You can also take help of social media sites like twitter, facebook, linkenIn, etc., to attract candidates to your company. Using various sources is an effective way to attract and target candidates. 

Shortlisting of candidates
After advertising in many sources, you will get a good number of candidates who will come for the interview, you need to identify the right candidates and shortlist them for the next round. 

Selection
Once candidates are shortlisted, it becomes easy for selection, as selection involves interviewing, assessing and reference checking of the candidate.

Offer letter
After you have selected the candidate that matches your job profile, you should officially give him/her an offer letter that includes role of the job, responsibilities, salary details, etc.

Training and joining
The candidate you have selected for a specific job profile may struggle initially to cope up with the job. Therefore, you need to provide some training to the candidate for him/her to undertand the job well.

Reviewing
Performance of the newly joined candidate should be properly assessed by the manager or the team leader. Reviewing the candidates work helps in judging the efficiency and performance of the candidate.

Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Know About the Importance of Website Monitoring Service

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Creating a website to represent the business through online is the best way to introduce the products and services offered by the companies to the netizens. In order to achieve good page rankings and to get listed among the top websites, the companies take the help of search engine optimization. If any problem exists in the website whether at their location or another location, it cannot be found by the companies unless they monitor their website performance every time. Even though the company has a team to monitor those things, they cannot look at their page's performance across the globe. In order to get informed about all the malfunctions of the websites, one need to go for web monitoring services which can successfully intimate the company about different problems in the website.

Website monitoring plays a vital role in detecting the problems in your websites. If your website is the only medium to introduce and expose your products to the customers then a simple problem could avoid them from seeing those products and services, which in turn makes them to another company which offers the same products. Slow working of your site could also make you to loose the customer. This not only decreases your revenue, but also becomes an indirect way of encouraging your competitor and to increase his benefits. Since website monitoring effectively identifies all such defects and problem, you can make timely corrections and hence can save your business.

These services are offered by different companies across the world which can detect the performance of the sites from various parts of the globe. They monitor your site reguhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.giflarly, without fail, at a constant time interval and reports you the problems through e-mail or SMS. They also prepare a report stating the number of visitors for your site, the average loading time, and any changes in the content. This report is provided to you through online so that you can check it and can make necessary corrections required to solve those issues.

Tuesday, October 1, 2013

Functions and Food Sources of Vitamin A

Vitamin A is an alcohol compound and one of the fat soluble vitamins stored in the liver and adipose tissue of the body. The chemical name of vitamin A is retinol. It is available in many forms like retinol, retinyl esters and retinoic acid. This article is about the functions and food sources of vitamin A.

Functions of vitamin A:
  • Renowned part about vitamin A is vision. Retinal is one form of vitamin A which helps in neural transmission of light into vision. i.e. in retina of the eye, retinal turns the visual light into nerve signals to the brain.
  • Retinoic acid is essential for gene transcription and to treat skin diseases. For the developing fetus, it is essential for the growth of eyes, heart and lungs.
  • It is essential for the growth and differentiation of epithelial, bone and nervous tissues.
  • It helps eyes, skin and the mucous membranes of the nose, lungs, mouth to remain moist.
  • It helps in reproduction, bone metabolism, hematopoiesis and wound healing.
  • Beta-carotene is an anti-oxidant that protects the cells from damage by free radical cells and reduces the risk of certain types of cancers. It plays an important role in aging process.
  • It is required for healthy skin and night vision.
  • It provides immunity by production and activation of antibodies like white blood cells and maintains healthy epithelial cells. Hence, it protects the body from infections.
  • Retinoids helps the stem cells for normal differentiation into red blood cells (RBCs). And also helps in mobilization of iron from the storage site to the developing site of red blood cells.

Food sources of vitamin A:
Vitamin A is available in two sources, animal sources and plant sources:
  • Animal sources: Vitamin A in animal sources is called as retinoids. These retinoids includes retinols. They are stored in liver. Vitamin A is found in eggs, meat, fortified milk, cheese, cream, liver, kidney, cod and fish oil, etc.
  • Plant sources: Vitamin A in plants sources are called as carotenoids. The caretonoids include beta-carotene. They are stored in liver and adipose tissue. The body will convert the beta-carotene into vitamin A. This vitamin is found in dark green, yellow vegetables and yellow fruits like broccoli, spinach, green leafy vegetables, carrots, pumpkin, sweet potatoes, winter squash, cantaloupe, pink grapefruit, apricots papaya, mango, pea, etc.
It is very important to get enough vitamin A in your diet for good vision, growth and overall development of the body.