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How are Workplaces Changing for Millennials?

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Workplace is changing in a tech era, people prefer a good environment and new home at the office. Employees usually have busy home and business lifestyle, balancing the opposing forces of career progression with those of both child and elderly care. Nowadays people have other activities to get balance as a stressful lifestyle and workdays between traffic and people using smartphone as a magical solutions as perfect life stereotypes. Technology is a good form to improve work environment with communication channel, productivity CRM, etc. At the heart of this rapid change is technology: a double-edged sword that makes carrying out many tasks quicker and easier, while blurring the boundaries between work and leisure more than ever. 4Geeks Teams  are making a difference with remote teams on-demand.Businesses have to adapt a new workplace in the future, people do not like have a borders and rules, if companies encourage a personal environment with open areas for people that prefer

Top 10 Faster Growing Industries in US

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Which industries are expected to thrive and grow the most over the next decade? Small-business are proving health tech solutions, fin tech, Transportation, Construction, Software Development or simply delivery solutions. Technology, unsurprisingly, comes out on top. Technology are improving the life to many people worldwide, industries are adapting to a new changing with new solutions reducing timeouts, improving costumer services or simply saving money. “A decade ago, tech investors mainly invested money in communication tools, social networks, and software as a service,” now technology not just are a main of communication is a new way to make money, people invest around 30 hours in a mobile device or in a laptop. Industries are using this channel to impact their costumer offering alternative to people that do nor like to waste time going to supermarket or order a pizza. According with Fundera dynamics of the companies are improving business environment, increasing new bu

How Startups Can Build a Dream Team?

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A dream business teams are a essential part of company success will comprise a well-balanced group of people who complement each other, challenge each other and bring out the best in each other. They will work efficiently together and be equipped and supported to achieve business objectives and results. If you are thinking to hire new people for your company, decision makers should consider how they fit with your company, every change represent adapt to a new environment, one person can have a significant impact on the dynamic of team. Be careful to build a team because not all people have your company DNA, skills and knowledge can be learned with the pass of time, but passion and attitude maybe do not can change mindset. Considering overall cultural fit and how learn to predictive personalities and skills to fit with rest of the team, always in a team not all people thinks the same that you, this is a good opportunity to classify persons depending work area and capabilities.

American Airlines launching direct flights from New York to Costa Rica

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Big Apple, meet Pura Vida. Beginning in November 2019, American Airlines will launch new direct routes between New York ’s John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) and Costa Rica . American Airlines will operate daily service between JFK and Juan Santamaría International Airport (SJO) near San José. The direct flights begin Nov. 21. It will also offer Saturday flights from JFK to Daniel Oduber Quirós International Airport (LIR) in Liberia. Those start Dec. 21. "The contribution of American Airlines with its offering of almost 67,000 new seats is extraordinary news for the tourism sector and is an important contribution to national economic activity, whose main driver is tourism," said Maria Amalia Revelo, Minister of Tourism. The routes will operate as follows, according to a press release from the Costa Rican Tourism Board: JFK-SJO: Departs New York daily at 3:59 p.m. and arrives at 9:42 p.m. Departs the San José area at 11:03 p.m. and arrives in New Yo

Top 10 Highest Tech Jobs Salaries in the US

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According to Glassdoor the highest top salaries in US are technological, ranking considers earning potential based on median annual base salary, job satisfaction rating, and number of job openings. Tech jobs are most demanded in this era substituting operative jobs or administrative positions, Today we are in changing times and companies adapted and there is not a question that emerging technologies designed to grow and scale business, such artificial intelligence, block chain and machine learning and automation are having an impact on the types of jobs employers are hiring for across the country. For many workers get a tech job means earning a sizable salary and enjoying over-the-top benefits as like nap rooms, free snacks, even ski trips and happy hours. According to  Glassdoor highest tech jobs can pay around $135K USD depending of industries, companies benefits and taxes. But not all tech jobs come with such high salaries,but there are a few key roles that pull that avera

JetBlue adds non-stop flights between New York and Costa Rica

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Starting Nov. 1, the United States-based carrier will fly between John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK) and Juan Santamaría International Airport (SJO) on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Sundays. It’s JetBlue’s first non-stop offering to the San José area from the northeastern United States. Currently, the airline flies here from the Florida cities of Fort Lauderdale and Orlando. JetBlue also already offers nonstop service between New York-JFK and Daniel Oduber Quirós International Airport (LIR) in Liberia. JetBlue’s new flight will operate as follows using an Airbus A320-series airplane: Departs JFK at 6:30 p.m., arriving in the San José area at 10:50 p.m. Departs SJO at 11:59 p.m., arriving in New York City at 6:09 a.m. “The A320 has a capacity for 150 passengers, so we are adding 23,400 new seats from our main market, the United States of America,” said Maria Amalia Revelo, Minister of Tourism. “We offered to strengthen Costa Rica’s air connectivity, and each new annou

Is Work From Home an Employer Branding Strategy?

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An exciting way to attract talent is when your job description appear the title work from home, there is a reason for now in this times candidates are preferring remote positions, traffic and weak early are part inconveniences. Think about stress and anxiety you can avoid morning routine and is important considered productivity having a few extra hours and work from home can improve integral environment and reduce operative cost for companies. Common problems going to an office are traffic, work environment, transportation, etc. When companies detected a low productivity of their employees a good option are remote position. Technology improve communication and logistic inclusive monitoring productivity. Employer can improving the way of recruiter are hiring talent , as today companies are experimenting how adapt remote position in different areas are opening work-from-home depending nature or job position because is obviously that a hospital nurse can not work from home. A

How to Avoid High Pricing in IT Outsourcing?

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HR industry is so fierce, everyday exist new staffing or freelance agencies worldwide and competitors are analyzing how get talent qualified and trained team for job requirements, outsourcing services now are so common and big companies yield their responsibilities to external resources. Since 1969 US companies are working with outsourcing and now this business model is adapted around world, countries as India, Ukraine, Mexico, Syria, Costa Rica or inclusive entire continents are dedicated to outsource services in technology, healthcare, manufacture, etc. Offshore development rates in Central and Southern America range from $30 to $50, in Eastern Europe average outsourcing rates are $25-$50, in Asia and Africa offshore developers charge $18-$40. Hiring software engineers is more complicated depending region, language and culture. Latin American countries have important advantage excluding African or Asian countries, based in performance and talent and education Latin Ame

Outsourcing Agencies: Pros and Cons

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Human resources in numerous companies are the principal problem, the hiring process can be a headache because  workers profiles not are most indicated usually for job position, exist a department in bigger companies just for recruitment and selection of personal, HR can be automatize with a staffing, outsourcing or freelance companies. Depending on the size of the companies, management can be complicated, is not the same to manage 10 or 500 employees, the difference consists in the management and criteria to measure productivity of t workers, the technology can be easier the journey with CRM specialized in management, productivity, communication, workflow, logistics, etc. Identify what is the pain of the company is facing, look always an easy way to solve them, sometimes is a good option to contract an external solution as a freelance or staffing agency. What characteristics I should know for choose a Outsourcing Agency? Cost per Hire  The majority of this agenc

Using Social Media to Attract Technical Talent

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Social Media are part our lives and are changing the communication channels, shopping form, inclusive ways to recruit talent. Social networks platform allow that job positions can reach to more people and our ads have more impact, attracting more talent and people interested in work in our company. In the past job positions was posting in newspapers and another conventional media, using social networks can improve hiring deadline and resources invested is a hard work. today job seekers rely in social networks to search and apply to a job. Identify where they are gather to bring job positions in front of they and recruit them.  Most popular social sites to hire talent are: LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter, but exist another marketplaces to hire good talent for example, Toptal, X-Team and 4Geeks Teams. A difference between social sites and marketplaces is about management and deadline of talent. Posting jobs in this social platform can improve visibility of jobs ads to potentia