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5 Ways to Build a Kickass LinkedIn Company Page

A LinkedIn company page should be treated in the same way as a Facebook and Twitter page. With over 500 million members worldwide, and 20 million alone in the United Kingdom, the site is extremely popular and could attract a lot more business (and possible employees) than you first expect. Here are 5 crucial tips to…

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Why Employee Referrals are the Best Source of Hire

Today, employee referrals are the most useful way of finding the best candidates for the job. Here is how valuable a referral truly is, courtesy of Jobvite. Takeaways: The average employee will have 150 contacts on social media networks – 100 employees means around 15,000 contacts (and possible candidates). Employee referrals have the highest applicant…

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12 Professional Email Etiquette Guidelines

Many people now use email as a primary way of communicating with friends, family, co-workers and others who are important to each of us for different reasons. You may be contacting someone about employment, a business venture, following up with customer service or emailing instead of using the telephone. Personal emails sent between friends and…

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Why Employee Referral Schemes Aren’t Boring

Everywhere I have ever worked has had an employee referral scheme. I can’t say any of them have set the world on fire. They are one of those things that you feel like you have to have, without really doing a great deal with it. A bit like my kitchen really. It’s been on my…

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21 Social Media for HR Tips You Ought to Know

Heisann… (That’s “Hey There” Or “Hello” in Norwegian). My grandfather was Norwegian. That was for him! I was lucky to have him in my life. Anyways, I was reminded this past week that social and HR is hard. I am immersed in social media every day. Comes at me all the time. I rarely talk…

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Are Employee Evaluations Really Necessary?

Employee evaluations, staff appraisals, performance reviews. Whatever you call them, the process of examining your growth and accomplishments over time should be an enlightening experience for you and your boss, yet when it comes to discovering the usefulness and effectiveness of employee evaluations, it depends whom you ask. In a recent survey, 91 percent of chief…

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Why Your LinkedIn Company Page is More Important than Your Website

LinkedIn has over 3 million companies on its database – and these are a great source of information for recruiters and candidates, but the average company page on LinkedIn is a total mess. Here’s why and how it could be affecting you… I often tell my clients that they should consider their LinkedIn Company Page…

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Who Make the Best In-House Recruiters?

As regular readers of my blogs will know, I’m a former recruitment consultant. I crossed to the light side (or the dark side, depending on your viewpoint) many years ago. I wasn’t terribly good at it to be hones; I couldn’t sell a glass of water to a man dying of thirst. I was pretty…

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Which Country Has the Happiest Employees?

The latest infographic from our friends at Zendesk takes a look at which countries have the happiest employees, and which ones don’t. Recently, they announced the Satisfaction Index, which uses the Zendesk benchmark to measure customer happiness across 65 million consumers in 137 countries. Looking over the inforgraphic and Satisfaction Index in tandem, there is something of a…