Dublin punches above its weight in attracting global tech giants. Microsoft, Intel, Symantec and Oracle are all well-established for years. More recently Internet giants including Twitter, Facebook and Google have made the city their European HQ. This cluster effect creates economic and social benefits that are well-documented. But for the growth to continue one key ingredient is…
Category: Employer Branding
Some of the world’s biggest companies use The Employer Brand Index to understand, improve and measure their employer brands.
What’s the best way to recruit — and later retain — employees? Company career sites? Networking? Word of mouth? According to studies, it’s actually employee referrals. These employees are also shown to stick around for extended periods of times, as opposed to those who are found through different methods. Since referrals are shown to produce better…
Our friends down at MyLife have done an interesting social behaviour study looking at 890 adults ages 18 and older – the results are presented below in this infographic. Takeaways: 36% admit to posting TV or movie spoilers 10% have been defriended due to prolific political posting One quarter of adults 18-35 are guilty of…
Last year, HireVue were selected as one of the top 12 LinkedIn Company pages by LinkedIn. This infographic (courtesy of them) shows how they built their page to be ‘award winning’. Takeaways: On the front page, use all the space given to you. Keep your page fresh and up-to-date. Use all three banners on the ‘Services’…
Poppy Rose Cleere (@Poppy_Powers) – yep this lady nailed it. She stood up for the little people, and stuffed the ‘suits’. The cheeky Social Media Coordinator at HMV as good as live-tweeted the financial circumstances-led removal of 150+ people at HMV last week, and became a cult hero – and with the added amusement that…