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Can Contact Between Groups Reduce Prejudice and Defeat Unconscious Bias?

Franklin Roosevelt was President, the Great Depression was raging, and Jean Harlow was the reigning queen of Hollywood – all this while the first serious studies of unconscious bias and prejudice began to emerge. In particular, much of the focus of this 1930’s research was on answering this central question: Can contact between groups reduce…

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3 Industries Facing the Recruitment Struggles of Brexit Right Now

The BBC has recently reported that ‘unemployment is at its lowest rate since records began in 1975’. It’s a great fact, a monumental one in fact for the British public. So what’s the problem then? A Brexit Barometer report put together by Innovantage, Bond International Software, and TempBuddy has revealed that industries with high dependency…

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5 Ways to Improve Candidate Loyalty

As the world of recruitment scrambles to keep pace with the momentum of digital progress and the age of disposability, candidate loyalty has been impacted along the way. There is a plethora of quality recruitment agencies in the market and – fortunately for us all – healthy volumes of vacant roles available too. Good candidates…

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The Recruiter’s Life in Emojis

When the Barclay Jones team go into a recruiter’s sales floor it’s often a scene filled with faces akin to emojis – terror, ecstasy, disgust! The emoji came from Japan in the late 1990s and would you believe that World Emoji Day is coming up on 17 July.  Why 17 July, well it seems that…

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6 Ways to Romance Your Client

We all know the kind of clients we would like to work with, but how are we going to get them? Building a recruitment business is not about hitting clients over the head with a big stick and dragging them to your cave. It is much more of a seduction. We need to get our…