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Employers Want Candidates with Potential

‘Harvard’ or ‘Oxbridge’ are often mentioned in the same sentence as ambitious global business leaders and the political elite – most relevantly with current US President Donald Trump has earned an economics degree from the University of Pennsylvania and Boris Johnson, Great Britain’s 28th Prime Minister, having attended The University of Oxford. Ivy League schools…

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Productive Use of HR data

Productivity growth since the late-2000s recession has been relatively weak and evidence supports the suggestion that SMEs have seen a bigger hit to productivity than larger firms; however, the UK stands out as one of the worst productivity performers among its peers, persistently ranked toward the bottom of a sample of advanced economies. Small improvements…

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Showcasing Your EVP Through LinkedIn

Now, there are a lot of ways that a lot of companies and recruiters use LinkedIn to get their next best hires, and the Australian telecommunications company Optus is no different. Jaclyn Majarich is the Employer Brand Manager at Optus, and she reveals how they use LinkedIn very effectively to spread their employer value proposition…

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Halloween Horrors in the Workplace

We’ve all experienced the kind of horrors like spiders and the odd mouse which can have people screaming in fear in the workplace, but there horrors of another kind which are more common in the office – the manager kind. Recent research commissioned by Perkbox has found that over half of working Brits have had a…

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8 of 10 Brits Admit Observing Presenteeism in the Workplace

According to a recent CIPD survey, people coming into work when they are ill also known as ‘Presenteeism’ has more than tripled since 2010, with 86% of employees admitting they had observed Presenteeism in the workplace. Research by the Centre of Mental shows Presenteeism from Mental Health alone is estimated to cost the UK economy…