Earlier this month, New York City-based realtor firm Rapid Realty made headlines by offering their employees a 15 percent raise if they got a tattoo of the company logo. The company’s owner got the idea when a loyal employee decided to get the company logo tattoo without any incentive, and the owner felt indebted to…
Category: Employer Branding
Some of the world’s biggest companies use The Employer Brand Index to understand, improve and measure their employer brands.
So, how would you score yourself as a manager and a leader? Don’t know, or not so sure? Well, if you’re not sure, let me tell you that your people are – they are constantly scoring you! So, if you have not evaluated your own performance in a while, now is a good time to…
Jagex stands as the UK’s largest independent games studio employing over 550 skilled professionals. This achievement requires a state of the art recruitment strategy and a recruitment team ‘hard-wired’ in to the global talent pool. We believe that our world-class online representation through social media channels, a comprehensive global events calendar, our refined and personable…
Generation Y is accustomed to a much more lax atmosphere where sending text message-like emails from their smart phones is second nature. Recent grads are becoming more laid back, but their future workplace may not be. The job market is as competitive as ever. As recent college graduates have looming school loans over their heads…
In the war for talent, which will make more candidates apply – a career website or a talent community? This infographic, from Ascendify, gives all the answers. Takeaways: 10% of people apply via career sites compared to 90% who join talent communities. Career websites are static, impersonal and complicated, whereas job communities are active, engaging…
The infographic below, compiled by RolePoint spells out just why it’s imperative for employers to focus on fostering a positive brand if they want to find and retain the best employees. Some key stats include: Companies with a defined employer brand dominate 60% of the labor market Companies with an unmanaged employer brand make up only 40%…
From social recruiting to communication campaigns to the application of real-time sourcing analytics, here are 5 must-have strategies currently dictating the future of sourcing according to our friends at Jobvite. Takeaways: You will want to use social networks for your recruitment, 1 in 6 people credit social media with finding their current job Don’t be…
Is this a struggle? If we are honest, it is everyone’s challenge! The good news is that there are answers to this dilemma. The reason I know there is an answer is that it is an issue with almost every client and we, and others, have been able to find solutions to it – for…
This infographic by Stephens Scown shows results highlighting that employment in the UK continues to be driven by small and medium enterprises (SMES). However, getting employment wrong can be very costly – see why below. Takeaways: SMEs employ 59.1% of people in the UK. 72% of businesses say that their main recruitment difficulty is lack…