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Employer Branding

What Benefits Do Employees Really Want?

A new trend that’s been hitting the workplace in recent years is extreme employment perks. From in-house yoga classes to free lunch, companies in many industries are going above and beyond when it comes to providing employee incentives. However, these perks don’t come cheap. Some professionals wonder whether extreme incentives are being provided at the…

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Employer Branding Workplace

Anatomy of an Effective Social Media Hiring Strategy

Smart companies know that one of the best ways to connect with candidates is to go where they are: on social networks. However, just being present on these networks isn’t enough. Companies need to optimise their social media presence and their brand reputation with prospective employees. This means you need to engage candidates with content…

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Employer Branding Talent Acquisition

How Do Leaders Spend Their Days?

Influential leaders – what do you think they spend their day doing? Cmoe gathered findings from leaders in Adobe, Google, Kellogg’s, AT&T and more to find out. Between waking at 6.15am (is that earlier than you?) and sleeping at 11.40pm – what do they do through out the day? Find out in the infographic below!…

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Employer Branding

5 Tips from Top CEOs on How to Prioritise

Do you regard yourself as a wizard when it comes to knowing how to prioritise? In my experience, most of us are somewhere between okay and pretty awful when it comes to really understanding how to do it. It tends to be a mixture of crisis management and those things that fall into the category…

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Employer Branding

Does Working Longer Hours Make You Less Productive?

For some workers, leaving office in the evening does not mean the workday is over. With the internet, it has become extremely easy to bring loads of work back home. But does working more mean more productivity? Studies show it is the exact opposite: productivity seems to be plummeting as hours pass. In the infographic…

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Employer Branding

7 Red Flags That Indicate Your Employee is About to Leave!

You put in really hard efforts to hire employees; you invest your time, money and energy to acquire the best of talent in your organisation. No doubt, you want it to stay longer and become a building block in company’s success. With the changing corporate dynamics, same efforts need to be put in retaining talent…

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Employer Branding

Are Curveball Interview Questions Really Beneficial?

How lucky are you, and why? If you were a box of cereal, what would you be and why? How many square feet of pizza is eaten in the US each year? The famed ‘curveball question’ was once the sole preserve of mega-corporations like Apple. However, their popularity as a recruitment tool has grown, and…

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Employer Branding

How Much Time Do You Waste at Work?

Have you ever felt like you’re wasting your time at work? You’re not the only one. Work meetings, people running late, the interwebs… Sources of distraction are aplenty and can highly damage your productivity. At the very top of this infographic, our friends at ELF Productivity state that only 60% of time at work is spent productively! So where…

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Employer Branding Timebound

Top 25 Companies for Culture & Values 2014

What companies offer their employees the best culture & values? Our friends at Glassdoor have looked at feedback provided by employees of US companies and compiled a list of the top 25. Twitter comes up top, maybe not surprising given their CEO Dick Costolo used to be a comedian. The usual suspects are all on the list…