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61 Short and Sweet LinkedIn Tips for Recruiting

With 400 million users and 4 million companies on LinkedIn, it comes in top among the social networks for professional use. Whether you’re looking to connect with business prospects, engage your customers or market your brand, LinkedIn’s expansive network of users and professional features make it the perfect social channel for business. In order to make…

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Employer Branding

Amplify Your Employer Brand Voice With Employee Advocacy

Although most businesses now realize that social media can play a significant role in their marketing and employer branding, few recognize the value of their employees and the role that they can play in the business’s social media efforts. The average person has five social media accounts, so it is highly likely that employees are…

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Top 5 Myths of Workplace Motivation

Disengaged employees cost businesses more than $300,000 a year. It’s been proven that introducing motivation techniques can improve a workforces productivity by 44%! But there’s no point in employing useless tactics to motivate employees – what ways actually work? In this article, we tackle the motivation myths. Myth #1: All employees are motivated by money…

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Employer Branding Timebound

The Global Workforce Happiness Index [STUDY]

Are your employees happy? A new research report by our friends at Universum, The Global Workforce Happiness Index, shows it’s time to take a data-driven approach to attracting and retaining top talent. The company conducted the largest study to date of the most satisfied, loyal workers by country and by industry. More than 250,000 working professionals in…

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Employer Branding

The 20 Worst Excuses for Throwing a Sickie

We’ve all wanted at one point to just stay in bed and not go into work when our alarm rings through our head in the morning – whether it be due to illness, or you just want a day off. However, if you want your sick day request to be accepted, you need a good,…

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What Do Successful Business Leaders Eat for Breakfast?

Breakfast – it’s the most important part of the day, with your decision of what you dine on affecting how the next few hours will pan out. Another way to learn from influencers and successful business leaders is to see what they eat for breakfast – is it a simple bowl of porridge or something…

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The Archetypal British Boss is a 54-Year-Old Man Called Andrew

Ever wondered what it takes to get to the top of the professional tree? A good education is a good start. So is a good work ethic. The right connections never hurt. But your chances really improve if your name is Andrew. Our friends at Stormline have crunched some numbers on UK’s top* 100 companies, to reveal…

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5 Ways to Promote Career Progression for Women

With FTSE companies recently been set new government targets for a minimum of 33% of women in board level positions over the next five years, the issue of the number of women in leadership positions remains as prominent as ever. We run a Women’s Leadership Programme to help more companies of all sizes and sectors to…

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Employer Branding

How to Be a Great Manager: 7 Tips from Alan Johnson #PeepShow

Alan Johnson. Charismatic and smooth…is he the ideal manager? We’ve picked the top 5 tips we’ve learnt from Alan Johnson on being a manager. 1) Include employees in the vision of the company: Alan had a vision. And he made sure to share that with a special few of his employees. Mark joined him on…