Are your employees overworked? Would you be able to tell if they are? This infographic by Column Five presents the tell-tale signs. Takeaways: 14% of employees say low pay is the cause of work stress. Poor memory and fatigue can be signs of an overworked employee. Heart disease and headaches could be invisible signs – check! RELATED: How…
Category: Employer Branding
Some of the world’s biggest companies use The Employer Brand Index to understand, improve and measure their employer brands.
The market for agency recruiters is relentlessly tough right now. Many are battling declining demand and skittish clients who are at best unreliable, and at worst openly aggressive and uncooperative. It’s hard to stay motivated in this environment. Yet here we are, with a job to do, overheads to cover, salaries to earn, and targets to meet. But spare…
Do you need a guide when recruiting? RecruitLoop have outlined the best roadmap for hiring managers trying to recruit. See it below! Takeaways: Scope + source + screen + select = the recruitment process. In the job description – think about the problems you need the person to solve! Before screening, figure out what type…
Personal branding is a difficult topic for anyone, but how can HR perfect it? This deck from Laurie Ruettimann gives some of the top tips. Takeaways: Your candidates are social – so be social! 47% of people keep their smartphones next to the bed. 5% sleep with phones in their bed. 94% of recruiters use or…
Do you like where you work? Would you say it’s the perfect office space? This slidedeck by OfficeDesk.com outlines what makes up the perfect office. Takeaways: 70% of American employees work in open plan offices. Open plan offices are disruptive due to lack of privacy and uncontrollable noise. Mark Zuckerberg’s new office plan is the…
Forgetting to give candidate feedback is one of the most common mistakes made in the recruitment industry, more often than not it’s not even considered a mistake. In fact many employers just hope that their candidates will ‘get the message’ when they don’t hear anything a few weeks (or months) after the interview, but guess…
Another year has come and gone. It’s 2014, and the world is changing. Some changes are good, and some are bad, and some are just dependent upon whom you ask. I can tell you one change that’s been making front-page news in the U.S. lately: legalized marijuana in Colorado. As of January 1st 2014, Colorado…
Job boards – are they obsolete? eQuest think they aren’t! Read this infographic by them to see why. Takeaways: Recruiters need to use the best mix of marketing channels in their online sourcing – including job boards. Job boards are the go-to resource – 2/3 of job seekers use job boards to find positions. Recruiters…
When working in a team environment, many managers reasonably assume that treating people differently is a bad thing, and showing favouritism, bias or nepotism is never going to help – in those regards it certainly is. However some of the best managers I have come across are those who have been able to understand how…