My interest was piqued recently by sight of an article about anthropology at work suggesting that “leaders should consider themselves an anthropologist of human culture”. It lead me to ponder whether or not management is a science or an art. Obviously the answer is both, but I think Drucker may be spot on when he suggests…
Category: Employer Branding
Some of the world’s biggest companies use The Employer Brand Index to understand, improve and measure their employer brands.
Let’s face it, in today’s world we expect to get loads of information in an expedient manner about whatever decision we are currently facing. Think back to the last time you tried a new restaurant. Did you use Yelp? Did you check out their menu and pricing? I know I did. When I bought my…
This article is sponsored by Dropbox, see their open positions here. It’s been just over a year since I was handed the keys to Dropbox’s brand new UK Office in central London. I walked into our then tiny, empty space with the two main components of my mission at the front of my mind: Build a…
One of the hottest topics in the world of recruitment is engagement. This trend is primarily driven by in-house recruiters and managers as a method of finding and retaining talent pools which are interested and engaged by their companies’ brand. In-house recruitment professionals have realised that it is not sufficient to attract candidates and then ignore…
Motivating employees can be hard. With so many theories, ideologies and processes, it can often seem quite a complicated task. But forget about Maslow’s Hierarchy and any weird Freudian ideas, we’ve got 3 simple ways that you can transform your workplace into a haven of productivity. 1) Humanise Having a ‘human workplace’ can change the…