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Why We Must Act Now to Address the Digital Skills Gap

Over the past couple of decades technology has become wholly entwined with the completion of our day to day tasks. Many of us obsessively check our smartphones from dawn to dusk. I for one am guilty as charged. But there’s a problem that’s been brewing for a while; the lack of technical talent to fulfil…

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10 Facts About Employee Engagement

Many people become confused by the term ‘engagement’ specifically when it comes to employees. What makes an employee engaged and how do you know if your actual employees are disengaged? This presentation by Officevibe on SlideShare explain the 10 critical pillars of employee engagement and how to improve these. Managers need to take note of these when…

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Who is Most Likely to Change Jobs at Your Company?

As the economy and job market heats up, the last thing you want is key people leaving your company. To help us identify who might be thinking along the lines of So long, farewell, Auf wiedersehen, goodbye, here’s a handy guide from our friends at CareerBuilder. 8 most likely to jump ship: Career-less, 52% of workers feel like…

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What Office Design Keeps People Happy?

This year, the office cubicle turns 50 years old! Love it or loathe it, it can’t be denied that cubicles revolutionized the design of offices all over the world. With an eternal struggle between privacy and interaction at the workplace, it looks as though office design has gone full circle since the emergence of the…

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Employer Branding Talent Acquisition

How to Help Hiring Managers Sell the Position 

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve sent a well-qualified, enthusiastic candidate in for an interview only to have them come back and report that they had a horrible experience and would never want to work at that company. If this is happening to you, you need to pay more attention to training your…

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Employer Branding Timebound

What Are the Skills and Traits You Look for in Job Applicants?

This week, we asked you What are the skills and traits you look for in job applicants? You got back to us saying that conveying a confident personality is a great asset for job applicants to possess. Showing a genuine drive and a passion for the industry, plus an enthusiasm for the vacancy in question is…

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Employer Branding Workplace

Why You Need to Have Friends at Work

Having friends at work is great, it gives you something to look forward to when you get up in the morning and provides you with an incentive to actually come into work. You want to stay at work if you enjoy spending time with your friends that you have made there and it makes your…

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The 10 Worst Bosses of the Silver Screen

Think your boss is bad? Well think yourself lucky one of these aren’t your employer! I’ve taken a look at some of the worst on screen bosses to date and trust me there are some rotten individuals amongst them. Luckily most of them are just fictional characters (give or take a couple), so hopefully no one has to work…

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Employee Retention: 5 Ways to Keep Your Best Talent

In my last blog post, I talked about employee tenure, and how it has changed over the years. What was once looked upon as job-hopping is now widely accepted as just another step up the corporate ladder to better opportunity and more money. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, from August to September…