This infographic, courtesy of NBRI takes a look at employee engagement and how to improve it. How good is your employee engagement? Let us know. Takeaways: Give engaged employees flexible hours to show you trust them. Create a calm area where employees can take it easy. Taking the time to write a handwritten letter can…
Category: Employer Branding
Some of the world’s biggest companies use The Employer Brand Index to understand, improve and measure their employer brands.
Do you need to source candidates? Do you need to study your competition? Do you want to keep a very close eye on what your clients are doing / their recruitment opportunities / their starters and leavers? Well, read on… Last year, the lovely Undercover Recruiter (thanks Lisa!) published a blog for me entitled “Why…
The new year is upon us and it means a clean slate, an open mind, and lots of New Year’s resolutions. Professionally, it also means looking at practices and seeing how your organization can improve in 2013. While it’s no surprise that organizations beef up their talent pool at the beginning of the year, how…
A few weeks ago, I got a call from a man (let’s call him John) asking me to write his resume along with a cover letter for a specific job he wanted to apply for. He’d been working as a casual Council Worker (specifically collecting garbage and driving garbage trucks) for the last few months, and wanted to…
Payroll fraud is most simply defined as employees cheating the payroll system at their place of employment to receive funds to which they are not entitled. There are many ways payroll fraud can be committed, including from salary, hourly and commission workers, as well as ways to prevent and detect it. What is Payroll Fraud? For workers…
Recruitment marketing has reached an apex of sorts. More than one person has mentioned the shift from search to predictive sourcing in the last few months and I happen to think they are right on the money. Today large companies are focusing their talent acquisition budgets in content marketing, and candidate research and nurturing. That…
A client of mine is currently ramping up their direct hire efforts on a global basis, using LinkedIn and other online tools to identify and approach suitable candidates. Some of these will be actively looking for a job, but most will be what we refer to as passive talent. There is nothing wrong with networking…
‘Tis the season for traditions and to start some new traditions. I once took the reins of an HR Leader job where my predecessor banned all Christmas trees. She did not believe in Christmas, which is totally cool with me, but pissed off 98% (about 790 people) of our workforce with her beliefs. Every employee…
Here at Undercover Recruiter we believe that content is (Burger) king! This delicious infographic from matchFWD shows the different parts (similar to a burger’s ingredients) which make up a great careers page (or burger). Takeaways (not literally): The bun of the burger is wholesome and good quality organisation of the company. The cheese is the…