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How to Keep Your Eyes Healthy at Work

It’s important to stay healthy – especially at work. How do you keep your eyes healthy? FeelGood have the answers below! Takeaways: You stare at a screen at work for 1820 hours per year. Long times in front of a screen can lead to short sight-ness. Make sure you take regular breaks and get away…

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How Much Time is Wasted in the Workplace?

Everyone wastes time at work – but how much? Time Doctor give you a run down in their infographic below. Takeaways: 54% of businesses prohibit the use of Facebook and Twitter at work. 70% of internet porn traffic is during the 9 to 5 working day. 19% of time wasted at work is through personal…

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Why Employees Leave and How Much It’s Costing Companies

Losing employees can be hard – so it’s crucial to know what makes people want to change jobs. This infographic by LinkedIn gives more of an idea and understanding. Takeaways: Better compensation and benefits is one of things that makes employees change employers. 10.3% of employees voluntarily changed employer every year. Retention is key to…

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A Roadmap to Greater Employer Transparency

The road to a more transparent company begins with a single step. After all, without organizational transparency, your employees could be working on all the wrong things. You want to work toward the right goals, which means being able to visualize workflow throughout the company. The infographic below — compiled by ClearCompany, the first talent alignment…

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How to See Through Misleading Resumes

An averaged sized company can receive up to a million resumes each year and this can be the ‘Never Ending Story’ for a recruiter or HR department. But after hours of skimming and sifting though all the possible-employer-clutter you come to find one particular candidate that is going to greatly help fulfill your company’s ever-changing needs. Your…

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Employee Engagement: The Key to Unlocking Your Team’s Potential

Employee engagement – it’s important. Five minutes a week can change your company forever. Here’s how (presented by 15five). Takeaways: Disengaged workers cost America $450 million. 58% of managers feel they give good enough feedback. 98% of employees who receive little to no feedback from managers are reported disengaged. RELATED: How Important is Employee Engagement?

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Can Recruiters Work from Home and STILL Be Successful?

I work from home, I employ someone to work from home and I am still (relatively!) successful. So, how does it work for me but not for so many? What is the secret of successful working from home as a recruiter? How many of you are reading this whilst sat in the office (hoping the…

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How LinkedIn Has Changed Talent Acquisition in the UK

Big congratulations to LinkedIn for racking up no less than 20 million users in the UK, this is a 100 percent increase from 10 million members in September 2012. UK employers from online fashion retailer Net-A-Porter to builders’ merchant Travis Perkins all use LinkedIn’s Talent Solutions products to identify and recruit great talent. They join more…

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How to Make the First Great Hire for Your Start-up

If you are thinking that hiring the first employee in a startup is an easy task, it is because you have never started your own business and need to experience it first hand to realize its importance. Adding the first external start up employee to our team of co-founders is a challenging and significant decision. It…