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What Effect Does Personality Type Have on Your Career?

In the workplace, your personality affects how you interact with your colleagues, managers, and clients, but new research compiled by Truity suggests it may also have an impact on your earnings potential, your career trajectory, and your job satisfaction. So how much can your personality influence your career and what factors are generally responsible for this impact…

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How to Use Live Video for Employer Branding

Periscope is a great tool for live broadcasting a social campaign, but how should you go about it? We spoke to Lars Schmidt, founder of Amplify Talent and employer brand strategist at Hootsuite to find out more. You can listen to the conversation on iTunes and Soundcloud, questions by me and answers by Lars. What was…

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Employer Branding Workplace

What Can Employers Ask in a Background Check?

Nowadays, employers are more cautious than ever when they hire new staff. It’s not uncommon for them to conduct a background check on a potential candidate to make sure that everything is in order. What an employer wants to know about a candidate depends on the type of job they are trying to fill. Background checks can…

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What Kind of Workspace Works Best?

Hot-desking, where employees don’t have a fixed desk in an office, is a key part of organizational preferences for cheaper, more flexible workplaces. As more employees work from home, organizations find they can downsize their offices to accommodate only those employees who are on-site every day. According to Franklin Becker, a social psychologist at Cornell…

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How Social Collaboration Can Benefit Your Business

What is social collaboration and learning? How can organisations benefit from using these? To find out I’ve had a chat with James Tyer who is the Global Lead of Social Collaboration Lead at Kellogg Company. You can listen to the podcast interview on iTunes and SoundCloud (embed below) or read a summary below. Questions by…

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Your Ping-Pong Table Sucks: What Millennials Actually Want

Millennials can seem like a hard group to please. In fact, about two-thirds of employers say their organisations struggle to manage millennials, according to a study by Bentley University. Today, it might seem as if employers believe that ping-pong tables and fancy, tangible benefits is the way of attracting “Generation Y”. It turns out, however, that they aren’t…

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Leveraging Hidden Employee Talents

In my last blog, I wrote about hidden employee talents, and how these talents, while seemingly unrelated to the employee’s job, may benefit him or her in unexpected ways. Hobbies or former careers such as music, dance, sports or photography will all teach discipline, persistence and determination in their own unique way, and the more…

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Productivity and Priorities – Real Career Management

Every manager wants a more engaged and productive workforce. To achieve it we need to create workplace cultures that empower and engage employees by offering career management processes and initiatives. Organisations that help employees to manage their careers tend to be more successful at retaining the most talented of their employees; and, they are also…

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Hiring Clients: How to Recruit the Best Talent

A guide to attracting and successfully recruiting the best talent for your business. You often see blogs giving advice to the candidate/job seekers- How to write a winning CV How to use LinkedIn to find yourself a new role How to get yourself headhunted How to get recruiters to call you How to use Job…