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Talent Acquisition

Recruiter’s Buzzword Bingo: Who Wants to Play?

Everyone enjoys playing games – especially if it’s a welcome distraction from real work. Sadly there’s no prize on offer here but if you win you could get bragging rights all week which, lets face it, is worth more than any prize. With the start of the new year a lot of people are considering changing…

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Employer Branding

What Candidates REALLY Look for in a New Job

All things being equal job seekers prefer to choose a new role not on the basis of salary or job title but for the sake of the employer brand and organisational culture. A Korn Ferry study found 73 per cent of respondents claim their number one driver at work is doing a job that has…

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Employer Branding

How Co-Working is Transforming Cities

In the last 10 years, we have experienced one of the biggest changes in the work market: the rise of co-working spaces. Between 2005 and today, it grew from just 1 in San Francisco to 7,800 co-working spaces across the globe. In a year from now, predictions forecast 37 000 co-working spaces worldwide gathering more than…

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Employer Branding Talent Acquisition Workplace

How to Fight the Urge to Slack Off

Can you imagine how much less guilt and frustration you would feel if you could somehow make yourself do the things you don’t want to do? Put simply, sometimes it’s just really hard to motivate yourself. If only there were some fail-proof techniques to make yourself get up and get going! While this doesn’t exist (*tear*), there are…

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Talent Acquisition Timebound

4 Things I Learned About Recruitment in 2016

I’m not great with predicting the future. I was pleased to be involved in a webcast with Firefish Software just before Christmas to gaze into an imaginary recruitment-focused crystal ball – but I was a little rebellious. I predicted 2017 would be largely the same as 2016, with some minor changes. Go me. My crystal ball was…

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Employer Branding Talent Acquisition

Why Website Trust Signals Are Needed to Attract Top Talent

How can you make sure your employer brand is trustworthy and credible? Start by looking at your website – is it full of trust signals or trumpet-blowing? I’ve spoken to Filip Matous who is a Digital Strategist and author of ‘How To Get Your Website Noticed‘, to find out more about the simple mistakes many businesses make…

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Workplace

7 Ways to Prove Impact in Your CV

If an employer is going to invest in you as a candidate, they will expect you to make an impact in your role. So, when writing your CV, it’s important to show how your actions have benefited your previous employers. Rather than simply listing your responsibilities throughout your CV, you should always endeavour to link…

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Talent Acquisition

How to Lose a Candidate in 10 Days

Have you ever wondered what it is that annoys candidates the most about dealing with recruiters? There are a number of things you can do to test a candidate’s patience – think Kate Hudson crazy in ‘How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days’. Over the 10 days make sure you introduce them to your split…

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Talent Acquisition

12 Animals That Would Totally Make Great Recruiters

Ever wondered which animals would make really good recruiters? Me neither, until today. We all know that animals are incredibly intelligent (well most of them, not you, Goldfish). All species are smart in their own special ways, possessing unique traits, abilities and skills that allow them to survive and steer clear of danger. Some animals…