Reborn In Zagorje

 Full relaxation and recreation:

- swimming in thermal water

- massages

- sauna

Research: Delpi Murders

 Task: video and audio forensics by european experts.

Movies - Watched

 The Mule ( 2016 )

Primal fear ( 1996 )

Via Netflix.

Brands In 2020

 Brave new world of brands - 2020 edition.

Zagreb Stock Exchange

 

Reset - Reboot

 Capitalism.

Email Marketing Disruption

 MailChimp email marketing has become too expensive. 

Amazon's geeky SES service is 34 times cheaper and in the future will shape email marketing industry.

The promise is there. Play with Sendy and MuxMail.

Older Geeks

 Old school software without malware.

The Lost Writer

 Zec, wake up.

Business fixer

 Developing new services so I can diversify my business.

Business fixer is one of those new service for which I have market and clients.

These services go under the business consulting department.

The services include: 

• setting up new companies or joint ventures
• negotiation with local subjects
• consulting about legal compliance
• etc. 

Company Birthday - 1 Year

 My little company is 1 year old. Let's party ! We survived and getting unstoppable.

New Age Employee

 

Interviewing Candidates

 Interviewing candidates remotely in six simple steps.

Employees Who Stay

 

12 High-Paying Skills

 Across a variety of job markets and industries.

1. Project management
2. Mobile application development
3. Cloud computing
4. Artificial intelligence
5. Sales leadership
6. Analytical reasoning
7. U.S. taxation
8. People management
9. Video production
10. Audio production
11. Translation
12. Financial planning

On-Demand Mental Health

Ginger.io 

 By delivering evidence-based behavioral health coaching, therapy and psychiatry right from a smartphone, Ginger is the only end-to-end telemental health provider designed to meet this skyrocketing demand at a fraction of the cost of traditional care. 

Ginger is uniquely:

 On-demand, anywhere: On average, members in 30 countries around the world can text with a Ginger behavioral health coach within 44 seconds, 24/7, 365 days per year; first available video appointments with a therapist or psychiatrist are available on average within 10.5 hours. 

Measurement-based: The company’s proprietary collaborative care model has been proven to be more than twice as effective as standard therapeutic interventions; 70 percent of people using Ginger experience an improvement in their depression symptoms within 10-14 weeks. 

Loved by members: Ginger members give an average rating of 4.7 out of 5 stars after each session.

Paywall For Writers

Substack.com

We believe that writers, bloggers, thinkers, and creatives of every background should be able to pursue their curiosity, generating income directly from their own audiences and on their own terms.

When readers pay writers directly, writers can focus on doing the work they care about most. A few hundred paying subscribers can support a livelihood. A few thousand makes it lucrative.

Readers win, too. By opting into direct relationships with writers, we can be more selective with how we consume information, honing in on the ideas, people, and places we find most meaningful.

Undercover Consultant

Zec is you undercover business consultant.

Knowledge, experience, support, solutions and ideas for digital media and digital publishing.

COVID19 and Recruitment

Post-pandemic



1. Hiring needs changed - some industries needed addition workforce, some have furlough their employees.
2. The way companies recruit changed - virtual recruitment, recruitment software, live video interviews.
3. There is a global shift to remote working.
4. The job market changed - rise in unemployment, talent shortages, globalised job market
5. Hiring "hybrids" - people who will work remotely and in the office.
6. Hiring "Kings" - employees that can wear multiple hats.
7. The rise of RPO models - outsourcing recruitment.
8. Full consultancy companies, not only recruiting and staffing agency.

About The Days

Begin of 5th week in July.

Clear sky and getting warm as usual for this time of the year, after a week of colder weather.

Me in my home office. A lot of people on vacation, but not me. I don't plan vacation this year.

Coronavirus pandemic is raging in full power. Around 100 new cases daily in Croatia.

But life is trying to be normal. Only with masks and social distancing.

I do a lot of tweeting and Instagram stories these days. I try to post almost ever day to keep mi in loop of social media.

Election in Croatia is done and we have new parliament and new goverment and it seems it will be stable goverement for some time.

The economic woes are just starting to have serious impact on croatian economy. We are in early stages of the crisis.

No Coding Apps

Visual programming

Bubble enables anyone to design, develop, and launch powerful web apps without writing code.

The Economist - Current Cover

Midsummer edition of 2020. Hello from the future ( year 2030 )

Mr. Spot

Killer Robot

Generation Z in Asia

Virtual Reception At The Lobby

No need for receptionist.

Greetly.com

At Greetly, our mission is to eliminate administrivia, the time-consuming and trivial administrative tasks that can suck so much out of an otherwise productive working day. We have worked diligently to create the perfect visitor management system that not only eliminates the burden of administrivia but does it in a simple-to-use and exciting way.

Living in Croatia

So, why don't you Americans come to live in Croatia ?

- your US salary will buy you 3,74 x times more

- utilities are 30 % cheaper in Croatia

- rents are 40 % cheaper

- restaurant meals are 20 % cheaper

- clothing is 20 % cheaper

- cup of coffee is 55 % cheaper

Top HR Blogs

Blogs for the recruiters.

Local VC Scout

I'm local scout ( not angel investor ) for european venture capital funds and programmes. My area is South and East Europe.

Main tasks: identifying investment opportunities.

COVID layoffs

European startups - layoffs.

HeyJobs Performance Marketing

HeyJobs.co

On the front end it looks simple: Recruiters launch new positions and magically receive quality candidates. Under the hood, we use a combination of machine learning, marketing automation and a matching algorithm to deliver more quality candidates at lower cost than any other platform.

CRM Tool

HubSpot - small business CRM I like to use.

HubSpot is all about inbound marketing, and it offers a free CRM that helps businesses organize and track customers — as HubSpot says, its CRM “automates the tasks salespeople hate.” The platform tracks interactions automatically, and it compiles data about deals on a single dashboard so the entire journey is visible. Beyond its CRM, the brand offers blogging, landing pages, email, lead management, analytics, web, social media, SEO, ads, and integration with Salesforce.

Phone Training

Practice.

Hiring Funnel

How People Pay Worldwide

Universal Basic Income

UBI

It's coming.

Recruiting Industry On Standby

Employers all around the World are in wait-and-see mode.

Very little recruiting, but in some sectors it is booming ( delivery, e-commerce etc. ).

According to some pros, agencies have 1/5 requisitions compared to pre-corona times.

The agencies that diversified their service can better cope with the current situation.

Crypto Lessons

What's one piece of advice about #crypto you learned the hard way that you'd offer a newcomer?

Do not marry yourself to ANY coin
Set stop losses
Handle risk carefully
Get off CT immediately

Get out while you still can if you value having a social life and a consistent sleep schedule.

Dont overtrade
Dont fall in love with a coin
Dont hold 1 bad trade against a coin
Dont follow the herd, listen and then do your own diligence
Be willing to lose
Dont get discouraged
Believe in bitcoin

It pretty much doesn't matter which coin you hold

Don’t buy alts. Just be wise and stick to #Bitcoin

Dollar cost average and make Bitcoin a small part of a long term portfolio. Don't watch price.

If a coin's price goes up exponentially in a short amount of time, it will also eventually retrace very deeply and fast. Lock your gains.

1. If sending to a new address for the 1st time start off with a small test amount then send the rest. 2. Dont keep ur #crypto on exchanges unless ur trading 3. If anyone asks u to send #crypto to them 1st & promises u that u will receive more in return its is a scam!!

Short Resistance and Long Support can be a simple yet effective strategy. Seems basic but people constantly get this wrong.

Learn support and resistance. And a few candlestick patterns.

Always do your own research.

Always write your keys down. Do it now, not in a little bit...

5 Ws

WHO did it ?

WHAT happened ?

WHERE it happened ?

WHEN it happened ?

WHY it happened ?

Me - Futurist

My personal habitus is to be futurist.

Futurists are people whose specialty or interest is futurology or the attempt to systematically explore predictions and possibilities about the future and how they can emerge from the present, whether that of human society in particular or of life on Earth in general.

Remote Working - Wheel

Security Tokens vs. Utility Tokens

How different are they?

Recruiter's Morning Coffee Notes

# ATS Recruitment: Pros and Cons

# Sectors that are hiring in COVID-19 crisis:

1. Shipping and delivery companies.
2. Online learning companies.
3. Pharmacies, grocery stores, home delivery meal services.
4. Remote communications and meeting services.
5. Social media.
6. IT.
7. Medical/Pharmaceutical.
8. Marketing.

# Virtual - Remote - Interim. Those are now hot words in recruiting.

# BlueJeans - The secure video conferencing platform

# DokTok.rs - besplatni savjeti doktora

# Talkini - professional service provider (e.g. consultant, psychologist, MD, Lawyer, Tutor) delivering their service through video sessions, via Talkini.

# Stefanie Ziska - Private businesses to stay afloat

IoT Cases

Demand Stimulation

The deal is simple :

If you use our core services, we can connect you with our contacts and connections all around the world, so you can sell to them.

The Workforce

How many employees you have who: KNOW - WANT - CAN ?

How many of those who: DON'T KNOW - DO NOT WANT - CAN'T ?

How many of those who are at the right time and in the right place ?

Where is located the market in which you can achive the best price for your goods and services ?

If you achieve the best price, you can pay your workforce better salaries.

Post-Corona Prices - Same Quality

Post-Corona age is awaiting us all.

There is future for all of us and we have adjusted our prices to reflect new reality but the quality of our services will stay the same.

Call us for our rates.

New Employees For New Future

We make your workforce ready for the future.

Meet us and learn about Personal Net specialists for recruiting and human resources.

We solve all kinds of workforce problems for our clients. Outsource your human resources to experts.

We do our services with utmost care and in a cost-effective way that doesn't break client's budget.

Let's talk about your needs and expectations, so please, reply to our mail.

We Handle Outplacement

Let us do outplacement services and make the transition of your redundant employees to a new career or job.

Be responsible employer who takes care for his former employees.

Personal Net - at your service.

# Outplacement is departing redundant employees from the company and helping them to transition on to new job in a new company. ( Odlazak zaposlenika iz tvrtke koji su višak i pružanje podrške pronalaska novog zaposlenja u novoj firmi ).

We Survived. For Now.

Corona crisis is still in full swing. As of today, there are 1.791 cases of COVID19 in Croatia.

We survived the most important period from March 16th - April 16th 2020.

I opened my business on April 14th 2020, having daily work of 4 hours.

The business in the country still not hiring.

Demand for recruiting services is non-existent.

I'm trying to pivot to other services like public procurement and business consulting.

Advice

# Advice for recruiters from Australia.

Post-Pandemic

“It’s as if we’ve gone from 2020 to 2030 in one weekend”

Dutch educational innovator Christien Bok told the Volkskrant newspaper

Big 5

Emotionaly stable introvert.

Critical and agressive.

Careful and diligent.

Open to experience.


+ PLUS

• Moderation, emotional stability, good mood ( neuroticism )
• Activity level, assertiviness ( extraversion )
• Imagination, artistic interest, intellect ( openess )
• Morality, altruism, cooperation ( agreeableness )
• Cautiousness, self-discipline, self-efficacy, achievement ( conscientiousness )

- MINUS

• Anxiety, self-consciousness
• Introverted, socially reserved, hates crowds, distant and reserved, unfriendly
• Slightly conservative, non-adventurous and risk-averse.
• Not trustful, too modest
• Too strict orderliness, sloppiness

Last Mile Delivery

With a combination of mobile technology, autonomous robots and partnerships with stores and restaurants, local delivery is faster, smarter and more cost-efficient.

Starship.

Eliport

Hugo

Job: Copywriter

A Copywriter creates engaging content that is disseminated across various channels. These channels may include print, television, digital, and/or social.

Synonyms:

drafter, writer, author, humorist, novelist, speechwriter, penholder, dramatist, columnist, scriptwriter, lyricist, reviewer, songwriter, compiler, diarist, critic, wordsmith, ad man, storyteller, playwright, scribe.

Why Online Collaboration Tools ?

Consider this: a McKinsey Global Institute report found that 61% of the workweek is spent on among these three tasks:

- reading and answering emails
- searching or gathering information
- communicating and collaborating internally

Meet Me At Google

Do you use Hangout Meets ?

I haven't but now while is free I'll try.


- Larger meetings for up to 250 participants per call

- Live streaming for up to 100K viewers within your domain

- Record meetings to Google Drive* to share with those who can’t attend

Coronavirus - Random Notes

# Trump wants open businesses by Easter. Health experts against this idea. Financial ruin for economy from virus will be bigger as death toll - thats their view.

# Olympics postponed to 2021. Advertising dollars down the drain.

# Italy's worst day in terms of dead.

# Hot weather and humidity will slow spread of epidemic - new MIT study claims.

# Phillipines are doing private hospitals nationalised.

# Virus Intelligence Service. VIS

# Vineyards in Sweden will be hit.

Coronavirus - Update - 24th March

Instagram TV

I use Instagram since 2010. The most exciting feature of Instagram is Instagram TV, in my view.

You can upload video of 15 minutes from mobile or 60 minutes from desktop.

There's dedicated app but usually people use it inside Instagram app.

TV is still not dominant feature for Instagram but will eventual get there.

What Is An Adventure ?

Entreprenuership is an adventure.

An adventure is...

an exciting experience that is typically a bold, sometimes risky, undertaking. Adventures may be activities with some potential for physical danger such as traveling, exploring, skydiving, mountain climbing, scuba diving, river rafting or participating in extreme sports. Adventures are often undertaken to create psychological arousal or in order to achieve a greater goal such as the pursuit of knowledge that can only be obtained in a risky manner. - Source: Wikipedia

Adventurous experiences create psychological arousal, which can be interpreted as negative (e.g. fear) or positive (e.g. flow). For some people, adventure becomes a major pursuit in and of itself. According to adventurer André Malraux, in his La Condition Humaine (1933), "If a man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?".[full citation needed] Similarly, Helen Keller stated that "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Source: Wikipedia

Contrarian In The Crisis

Patience and easy ( non-anxious ) communication.

No fear. Courage and experience.

Hopeful.

I can.

Timeline ?

A timeline is a display of a list of events in chronological order.[1] It is typically a graphic design showing a long bar labelled with dates paralleling it, and usually contemporaneous events; a Gantt chart is a form of timeline used in project management.

Coronavirus - Update - 21st March

Buying In The Age Of Corona

Simplifies grocery shopping

Grosh is like no other grocery shopping app you have seen. It’s got an attractive modern design, can be synced across multiple types of devices, comes with intelligent suggestions, and helps you find groceries in the store. It’s FREE and always will be.

Ear & Care ?

If you need: An Ear to Listen and a Passion to Care ?

Call me on WhatsApp

Call me on Viber

Call me on Skype

Corona Update - 19th March

Oil Prices Down

Coronavirus - Update - 18th March

Pandemic Notes - Random - 18th March

# The health institution will need more security personel.

# Germany in a great need for health workers.

# Sanitation service are up.

# Paying apps for remote pay are new normal.

# The cure for COVID19 wont be ready until 2021.

# Most people in Wuhan still not allowed to go outside their houses.

# South Korea has a rise in cases again.

# German experts expect 4-5 percent fall of GDP in 2020 if the crisis lasts for 2 months.

# Verified Call consulting.

# Go Fund Me campaign.

# WorkFromHome and RemoteWork - trendy hashtags

# TeleMedizin anbieter - HomeDok ( GE ), ClickDoc ( DE )

# Startup Kry - Sweden - telemedicine

Coronavirus - Update

Streaming is ON

Live streaming is still exciting.

DaCast platform or BoxCast ?

Everybody can start Netflix these days.

Still, you need to have steady cashflow to pay for the platform.

Mr. Rich

As if he were some ninja, Mr. Rich creeped up behind his nephew. “Boo!” he shook the boy. “Scared the life out of ya, huh? Thought you were robbed for a second.”

The lad, however, showed little to no emotion.

“What’s your deal?” Mr. Rich asked.

Dejected, the boy replied, “Man, I’m so broke right now that if somebody tried to rob me they’d just be practicing!”

Mr. Rich—holding back the laugher—told his nephew to take a quick stroll with him.

Seconds later, Mr. Rich pulled up an image from Google of a golden goose laying golden eggs.

“Now,” said Mr. Rich, “if you had a choice of which to buy—the goose or the golden eggs—which would you choose?”

Without blinking the boy said, “Of course I’d take the golden eggs. I mean, with those eggs, I could sell them off and buy tons of stuff right now!”

Mr. Rich shook his head. “Nephew, but don’tcha see?”

“See what?”

“By taking the golden eggs up front, you’re taking a dime up front instead of a dollar in the end!”

Puzzled, the boy’s blank stare suggested he didn’t catch the metaphor.

Mr. Rich wrapped a comforting arm around the lad. “What I mean is, by investing in the golden goose, in the long run you’ll pave the way for it to lay countless golden eggs.”

“But where do I find this golden goose?”

Mr. Rich held up a mirror to the boy’s face. “That funny looking fella you see in this mirror . . . that’s your golden goose! And until you start investing all your time and energy into it, you’ll never get the golden eggs!”

Wisdom

Web Chat Is Old Tech

Messaging apps ( Viber, WhatsApp ) > Web Chat.

These web chats are old-fashioned tech.

My recruiting site has 93 % mobile traffic, and only 7 % Web ( desktop ) traffic.

North Croatia - Demand For Employees

Economic activity measured through open vacancies in croatian counties ( North Croatia ), as per today:

Koprivnica - Krizevci county - 166 open vacancies

Bjelovar - Bilogora county - 150

Varazdin county - 453

Medjimurje county - 358

Virovitica - Podravina county - 104

Brave browser

# The cryptocurrency-powered internet browser Brave - four million daily users.

Telephobia

Fear of making or taking calls, also known as ‘Telephobia’, is a real.

Are you telephobic ?

Recruiting Industry Thoughts

Dalibor Kunić - The Owner and Managing director of Personal Net, a croatian employment agency

“Whilst salary size remains a decisive factor for the attraction and retention of workers, demands for workplace flexibility continue to gain importance across all age demographics, as do businesses with a strong purpose. Candidates are seeking more meaningful work and to create ‘One Life’, the balance of work and home. Businesses must be agile in embracing these preferences to shore up access to the skills they need; embracing these preferences to help safeguard future talent pools.”

Why startups fail ?

Ask - Seek - Knock

.

Anniversary - 18 years

18 years of blogging.

From 2002 to 2020.

Ask

Matthew 7:7 ESV

“Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you."