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…
Category: Employer Branding
Some of the world’s biggest companies use The Employer Brand Index to understand, improve and measure their employer brands.
No man is an island, especially in a business organization. Everyone in the organization needs someone else’s help sometime or another, either as part of the regular workflow or during emergencies. Whether it’s the CEO or the cleaning lady, every person in an organization has to consider himself or herself as part of a team…
This infographic (courtesy of Herd Wisdom) shows how recruiters can create the perfect job posting. What’s the best job posting you’ve seen? There are currently around 5 million jobs posted online – in comparison, there are 13.7 million unemployed people in the US and Canada. When creating a job posting – make the title catchy…
What do women want at work? This infographic (compiled of results from a global LinkedIn study) shows what women want from their job. Takeaways: In present terms, ‘success’ means finding the right balance between work and a personal life to 63% of women questioned. 5 to 10 years ago, ‘success’ meant a high salary to…
Taken at face value, there’s no shortage of people that you can employ. Headlines regularly bombard unsuspecting readers with statistics that suggest the UK is facing high unemployment rates and you would be forgiven for thinking that this means employers can very easily pick and chose who they recruit with very little effort. I’ve seen…
Dublin punches above its weight in attracting global tech giants. Microsoft, Intel, Symantec and Oracle are all well-established for years. More recently Internet giants including Twitter, Facebook and Google have made the city their European HQ. This cluster effect creates economic and social benefits that are well-documented. But for the growth to continue one key ingredient is…
What’s the best way to recruit — and later retain — employees? Company career sites? Networking? Word of mouth? According to studies, it’s actually employee referrals. These employees are also shown to stick around for extended periods of times, as opposed to those who are found through different methods. Since referrals are shown to produce better…
Our friends down at MyLife have done an interesting social behaviour study looking at 890 adults ages 18 and older – the results are presented below in this infographic. Takeaways: 36% admit to posting TV or movie spoilers 10% have been defriended due to prolific political posting One quarter of adults 18-35 are guilty of…
Last year, HireVue were selected as one of the top 12 LinkedIn Company pages by LinkedIn. This infographic (courtesy of them) shows how they built their page to be ‘award winning’. Takeaways: On the front page, use all the space given to you. Keep your page fresh and up-to-date. Use all three banners on the ‘Services’…