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What Did the UK Employment Landscape in 2013 Look Like? [INFOGRAPHIC]

In 2013, what did the UK’s employment landscape look like? This infographic by Hiring-Hub.com looks at all the facts and figures. Takeaways: There are now 29.95 million people in work. The average weekly pay is now £475. 2.47 million people are unemployed. The youth unemployment is at 21% currently. Unemployment is due to drop 6.8%…

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Does Santa Have the Most Dangerous Job in the World? [INFOGRAPHIC]

It’s that time of the year! Merry Christmas from the Undercover Recruiter! We wanted to find out whether Santa has the most dangerous job in the world – and this infographic by Lifebroker answers all our questions! Takeaways: Santa has to make 822.6 deliveries per second! He has to be careful of Christmas lights and…

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Cameo: A New Way to Create a Social Video CV

If you haven’t heard about or seen the #VineResume by Dawn Siff in the last 8 months then you have been in a black hole. She produced the world’s first 6 second video CV using the popular Vine app. It went viral and was being reported on everywhere: As much as this was a great…

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Top Trends in Global Employee Engagement

Annual trends from Aon Hewitt’s global employee database reflecting employee engagement and perceptions of their work experience are shown in the infographic below. The data is taken from 3.8 million employees in 2,500 companies. Takeaways: 4 out of 10 employees are not engaged. 2 out of 10 employees are actively disengaged. Global employee engagement is…

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Dear Santa, All I Want for Christmas Is…

Ho ho ho! It is that time of year again where blogs all over are being written to reflect the seasonal mood out there. Lots of reflections over the year, in fact, this blog almost became a look back over 2013 – how it compared to what I had planned back on Jan 1st 2013 and…