Last week over 180 in-house recruiters gathered for the Talent Leaders Connect event in London. Acting as a forerunner to the Candidate Experience Awards (CandEs), an organisation’s candidate experience (or lack of) was hotly debated among some of the recruitment industry’s leading professionals. The line-up included Global HRD and author Peter Wright; Forward Partners’ Matt Buckland, who recently…
Category: Employer Branding
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The employer-employee relationship is broken. Managers face a seemingly impossible dilemma: You can’t afford to offer lifetime employment. But you can’t build a lasting, innovative business when everyone acts like a free agent. The solution: Stop thinking of employees as family or free agents, and start thinking of them as allies on a tour of…
Forty-five years on from the introduction of the Equal Pay Act in 1975, you would have thought that gender discrimination in the workplace would be a thing of the distant past. Although women are in the strongest position they’ve ever been in terms of career progression and opportunities, it would appear that we are not…
This hilarious video from Buzzfeed doesn’t take itself too seriously, however it does highlight some genuine matters to keep in mind when going for a job interview. Although honesty is usually the best policy, there are some things that you should probably keep to yourself. In the clip below you see how a number of interviews may play out…
The job market is moving ever faster and employers can’t afford to dilly dally. This is especially true of the entry level to the middle management market, where the strongest candidates can take their pick of the jobs. Ambitious companies are in a race to hire top talent who will increase growth and revenue. However, they…
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…
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…
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…
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…