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How to Deal with an Employee Absence Surge on Mondays and Fridays

Apart from those of us that actually come to work for a rest, no employee could deny that they would enjoy more long weekends. However, some workers take having extended weekends off to an extreme. So much so that certain HR Managers and organisations have systems set up to highlight employees who are repeatedly absent…

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Employer Branding

How to Deal with Toxic Employees

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…

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Employer Branding Talent Acquisition Workplace

How to Optimize Your LinkedIn Profile for Social Selling

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…

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Employer Branding Workplace

15 LinkedIn Status Updates to Get You Noticed

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…

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Employer Branding Talent Acquisition Timebound

Candidate Experience: Reality vs. Expectations

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…