Creating a company is unlike anything you've done before. It is the most draining, exhausting, all-consuming beast that eats every second of free-time, wakes you in the night, and demands sacrifices your social life upon the Alter of Hope for months - and likely even years - at a time. Whether apocryphal or not, the idea that in the 1960's, a member of the press (or J.Fk> himself) asked a janitor in the background of [...]
How do you conduct the first interview for new staff? BZZZZZ. Wrong. Trick question. You don't conduct the interview, the candidate does. The Mercuras Group 'Reverse Interview' process is something we developed to secure the top performers. If you've already engaged good people and lined them up for an interview, and you're genuinely excited to meet with them, then you need to impress them. They have options. You want them to want to work with [...]
Shiny Object Syndrome Short of Christmas and disco decoration manufacturing, there are few industries that endure so co-operatively with SOS (Shiny Object Syndrome) as much as information technology. Nearly every tech company suffers unduly from staff-turnover ratios higher than they’d like. Firstly, some turn-over is healthy; new ideas, new blood, new insights & innovation. It’s when we start climbing into the late teens and 20% that things start to become untenable. With tech, the strikingly rapid change and innovation [...]
Like most things; painting, psychology, sports, fashion, architecture; there are sets of fundamental rules, and everything else is just icing. Well yes and no… Two researchers in the late 1990’s, Dunning and Kruger, conducted a series of experiments around the postulation that there is a fundamental disconnect between self-assessment and actual capability according to the level of exposure an individual has to true expertise in a given field. It’s only when you get to a [...]
The Mercuras Group now has a presence in Sydney with Mercuras Consulting. Based in North Sydney, Mercuras Consulting is a dedicated, perpetual resource for growing organisations that need a Talent Acquisiton strategy and delivery capability, but don't have the time or expertise to really create the optimal ecosystem to grow. Mercuras Consulting accelerates growth for Development and Managed Services start-ups and SMB's looking to the future. Our staff are dedicated to the ongoing success of [...]
With our addition of Optume Consulting to the Group, our presence in the UK continues to grow. The leading Search & Recruitment firm for Management Consulting, the addition of the shared services and technology at the core of The Mercuras Group, we can't wait to see what they are capable of doing for clients. Deep Management Consulting expertise, and the capability expansion our technology provides mean there's a new force in Search & Recruitment for firms [...]