Employee engagement – do you know it fully? Here are ten SHOCKING statistics about employee engagement, presented by OfficeVibe. Takeaways: First off, the bad news: 70% of US workers aren’t engaged at work. Highly engaged employees are 87% less likely to leave their company compared to less-engaged employees. 89% of employers think their people leave…
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Employee experience can seriously impact your bottom line. The Employer Brand Index gives you insight into what talent really thinks about your company.
According to the American Psychological Association, nearly a third of American workers believe they are underpaid and suffer heightened amounts of stress due to what they perceive to be an inadequate salary. As more jobs become available and the hiring economy slowly improves, this provides many U.S. workers with the ability to look elsewhere for…
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11 Ways to Deal with a Difficult Boss
I love my job, I enjoy working with my colleagues, and I love everything about my work but there’s one thing that’s giving me a terrible headache almost everyday – dealing with my difficult boss. I believe I am not the only person who experiences this – most working professionals have encountered the same and you…
Search through millions of job board postings and classified ads? Check. Update your resume? Check. Fill out the online application? Check. Hit ‘submit’ and send your resume out into cyber space? Check. Hear back from your dream job? Nope. What happened?! We can only go through the above sequence so many times before we totally lose…
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The 15 Rules of Modern Job Search
You probably don’t care how the job search is different today. What you do want to know are the new rules for landing your next job as quickly and painlessly as possible! Here is the new modern job search playbook: 1) Pain is part of the process: Get used to rejection and learn from it…
An interview is like speed dating in some ways. You have an average of 40 minutes to decide whether or not the company you are interviewing with is right for you. In medical sales, representatives have a lot to consider before they accept a new job. Is the compensation structure right? Will the culture be a good…
When you submit a resume for a job – you’re placed at the bottom of a pile. How do you get to the top of that mountain? Takeaways: 118 resumes are submitted for every job opening. 89% of hiring failures are due to a poor culture fit. Smile! Be the kind of person they want…
One of the most common pieces of good advice offered to job-seekers is to find a positive way to stand out from the crowd – something that distinguishes your resume from the stack of similar ones on the hiring manager’s desk and makes your name stand out in his mind. The reason for this is…
What’s more important for you at a job – salary or satisfaction? Philips have collated findings in the infographic below. Takeaways: 96% of Americans said being able to apply personal interests to their careers would make them happy. Most believe that meaning at work is more important than salary. 68% of Americans would take a…