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Taking Interviewing Outside the Box – Unique Practices by Top CEOs

Over the past decade, we’ve all been fascinated, entertained and a bit puzzled by the brain-teaser-type interview questions that many employers have incorporated into their hiring process. Why are manhole covers round? How many golf balls can you fit into a school bus? Popularized by Google, the jury is still out on whether the ability…

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What’s Your #1 Tip to Delivering a Great Candidate Experience?

Most people would like to deliver a great candidate experience and they would readily admit that they would like to be the best employer out there. But there is no harm in getting tips on how to be even better. Our panel of ten experts have given what they think is the number one tip for…

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Talent Acquisition

Why Social Engagement is Key to Recruitment

We speak to Chad MacRae who is a recruiting leader and design thinker with over twelve years of experience in talent acquisition. He is the founder of Recruiting Social, a recruiting services company that supports talent teams across North America and donates 10% of profits to education charities. He has found talent in 45 countries…

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How the Culture of Presenteeism Impacts Both Employees and Businesses

Presenteeism refers to the practice of being present at work but not being productive. The culture of presenteeism is widespread; however, it is more of an issue in some countries than others. For example, in the UK, presenteeism has hit record high levels. The number of employees coming into work while sick has more than…

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How Employee Experience Impacts Employer Brand

Employee experience is a very topical concept at the moment. A bad experience can severely impact your employer brand and vice versa. But why? We are with Rayanne Thorn, the VP of Marketing at Dovetail Software, an employee lifecycle software, to talk about how she combines marketing, employee experience, and employer branding to seamlessly recruit…

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Using a Social Intranet to Boost Company Culture

Organisations with a great workplace culture are those where employees feel a real sense of belonging and using a social intranet platform can help to achieve this. As proud winners of the global Jostle Award for Intranet Strategy, we use a social intranet here at Pure to help create a connected and vibrant workplace across…

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Which Companies Deliver the Best Candidate Experience?

While it’s not a competition, everyone wants to be the best at something and delivering the highest level of candidate experience is no different. They say imitation is the greatest form of flattery and whilst we don’t advise you to copy another company’s way of delivering candidate experience, there is no harm in being inspired by…

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The 5 Key Reasons Some Start-Up Recruiters Fail

So many recruitment professionals dream of starting up on their own, and the fact is that so many of them fail. Not all of them, by any means, but many don’t survive after the first year. It’s impossible, and wrong, to generalize but Paul Mizen, Managing Director of The Recruit Venture Group has the experience…

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AI and the HR Professional

The World Economic Forum suggests we are on the cusp of a Fourth Industrial Revolution driven by ‘ubiquitous automation, big data and artificial intelligence’. The Institute for Public Policy Research, however, says that “despite the growing capability of robots and artificial intelligence (AI), we are not on the cusp of a ‘post-human’ economy.” IPPR suggests…