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Do you look around the workplace and spot people doing something they shouldn’t be? Are people pretending to work when really they are time wasting? We all know that one person in the office who is slacking and making other people unproductive as a result of this. This infographic by GetvoIP pin points 5 types…
The term ‘social selling’ has been doing the rounds for a while now on the interwebs, at conferences and in countless webinars. What does it actually mean? Here’s a definition by Hubspot: Social selling is when salespeople use social media to interact directly with their prospects. Salespeople will provide value by answering prospect questions and…
You have a LinkedIn profile, but no one is contacting you. What do you need to do to draw attention to your profile? The secret is in sharing status updates that appeal to your network and potential employers. LinkedIn reported that job seekers who updated their status weekly were 10 times more likely to be contacted by…
Last week over 180 in-house recruiters gathered for the Talent Leaders Connect event in London. Acting as a forerunner to the Candidate Experience Awards (CandEs), an organisation’s candidate experience (or lack of) was hotly debated among some of the recruitment industry’s leading professionals. The line-up included Global HRD and author Peter Wright; Forward Partners’ Matt Buckland, who recently…
The employer-employee relationship is broken. Managers face a seemingly impossible dilemma: You can’t afford to offer lifetime employment. But you can’t build a lasting, innovative business when everyone acts like a free agent. The solution: Stop thinking of employees as family or free agents, and start thinking of them as allies on a tour of…
Forty-five years on from the introduction of the Equal Pay Act in 1975, you would have thought that gender discrimination in the workplace would be a thing of the distant past. Although women are in the strongest position they’ve ever been in terms of career progression and opportunities, it would appear that we are not…