Happiness, somehow keeping a positive culture and a smiling workforce, is a powerful business tool. However, happiness isn’t always fluffy. Here’s how employers are finding the financial benefits of better work environments and using happiness as an instrument to drive the business forward. This infographic from Dashburst shows exactly why. Takeaways: In a year, lost work…
Category: Employer Branding
Some of the world’s biggest companies use The Employer Brand Index to understand, improve and measure their employer brands.
As a recruiter, I speak so often to candidates about the importance of being clear about their personal brand statement. It is critical to know your strengths, the sweet spot of your skillset, and how to explain your background to a potential employer. Without this clarity, you may be overlooked in the screening process. I…
In my last blog post, I wrote about the unfair advantages good-looking people experience in the workplace, and a new website looking to capitalize on them. There is plenty of data to support the fact that positive work attributes are more likely to be credited to the genetically gifted. However, an interesting counterpoint was recently…
Social media is a very dangerous tool to have, especially at work. Here are the top social media fails to stop you doing the same! 1. The over-eager tweeter: Does this look familiar to you? Sometimes, you don’t even wait for the job offer – just the interview is enough to make you hit the…
Is constructive criticism the same as feedback? I don’t think so – but others may beg to differ. I avoid using the word criticism as much as I can (except in a technical ‘literary criticism’ way) as it always feels as if it is negative. It is judgemental in its essence and unpleasant. Most people…