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How to Make Your Hiring Strategy More Diverse

Many employers may focus their efforts on hiring a team with similar mentalities, educational histories, or skills knowledge. But a diverse team offers varying perspectives and a multitude of skillsets — often equating to better performance, a great brand image, and growth in an organization. With more than 85 percent of companies taking action to…

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How Does Emotional Intelligence Affect Your Career?

Emotional IQ is determined by the level of your emotional intelligence, and can be a major factor in your career. How important is it? University of Maryland answer that below. Takeaways: Managers especially can benefit from high emotional intelligence. Employees with high EI normally remain calm under pressure. Improve your EI and it will improve…

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How Social Employees Make Great Brand Ambassadors

Within the world of business, credibility and transparency is something that is rather important to the public nowadays. People want to know what is going on ‘behind closed doors’ within certain companies and how they deal with successes and failures.  This is why treating employees as a part of your team of ambassadors is so…

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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?