When the weather warms up and holidays are edging closer, it can be all too tempting to relax and let your professional guard down. If this is something you identify with, then you aren’t alone. Workplace data suggests that productivity drops 20% during the summer months, with 45% of employees admitting that they’re more distracted. This…
As recruiters, in 2017, We each create our own personal brand on social media as well as conform to our employers values (hopefully) by sharing company infographics, articles, and vacancies. The social media platforms which recruiters use spans LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat and even Pinterest. Type a prospective candidates or employees name into Google…
The release of BBC’s top earning salaries has rightly provoked furore on the recurring debate around gender pay gap. The list revealed just under a third were women, with only two women featured in the top 10, who in addition are paid considerably less than the top male earners. Pay discrepancy between men and women…
Job Adverts are key to attracting the top talent to your organisation. But how do you make sure you’re not alienating one section of the community? Ultimately you want the best man or woman for the job, but you also want to invite applications from people from across the spectrum regardless of their race, religion,…
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Finding Career Satisfaction
We hear this constantly, HR Managers trying to work out how to keep their team members satisfied so they stay motivated, and employees trying to find motivation with what they are offered because they are no longer satisfied. Research on career satisfaction has throughout time been a very challenging debate. How do organisations keep individuals…
Here’s a topic that’s near and dear to my heart: recruiters’ and employers’ preference of sourcing and hiring passive (non-job-seeking) candidates over active (job-seeking) candidates, and discrimination against the unemployed or anyone seeking employment. Sixteen years ago, I worked for a New York City ad agency that was sold to a larger company and, along…
Searching for the right candidate can be a tedious task, spending hours online searching for someone then trying to find their contact details without any success. Or even the times you want to contact someone that works for a specific business. You go to their website and are unable to find any relevant contact details…
Employer branding is top of mind for most forward thinking talent acquisition and HR teams these days. There is a plethora of articles and resources around how to build your brand, the importance of employee generated content, etc. However, there are scant resources that share how to measure the dollars and cents impact of your…
Ever since LinkedIn came along and disrupted the recruitment industry with products like Recruiter, dynamic careers pages, and targeted job slots, we have been asking – what’s next? Unfortunately, what’s next consisted of a whole stream of updates that limited the way we can use LinkedIn. Rather that bitching, after all, this was a necessary…