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Talent Acquisition

3 Key Social Media Trends for Recruiters & HR in 2017

This post is sponsored by Mighty Recruiter. Be sure to join their upcoming webinar, Katrina Collier’s Top Priorities for Social Recruiting Success in 2017, on Wednesday, December 7, and ask your questions first hand! What an exciting year of change 2016 has been for social media recruitment. We’ve seen companies embrace Snapchat for personal and…

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Employer Branding

How to Build a Team Full of Talent

We all know that the key to organisational success is largely dependent on having the right people with the right skills in the right roles. To be effective and productive we need to nurture and retain resilient, creative and agile performers at every level. Talent management is about maximising the potential talent on the team…

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Workplace

Why You Must Find Your Purpose NOW

I have talked about passion before in my articles and it is always interesting to receive the feedback from all of you on what you feel ‘passion’ really is. The reality, however, is that passion can be a dirty word. It can be misused and misinterpreted, sending shivers down your spine each time you hear…

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5 Types of Content That’ll Collect Links and Shares

We’ve heard the phrase, ‘you are what you eat’,  but what about ‘you are what you create’? Cutting through the content noise online is difficult. How is it that some pieces of content resonate incredibly well with a particular audience, while others fall on deaf ears and flop? Some content pulls huge social engagement, but is…

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Employer Branding

The 3 Keys To Successful Performance Management

Let’s be honest: nobody likes traditional performance reviews. Managers hate trying to find time in their schedules to give employees a year’s worth of feedback. Employees dread having to hear a laundry list of mistakes they’ve made. In the end, both parties leave the meeting feeling it was less than productive. It’s time to stop…

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Talent Acquisition

The Real Life of a Recruitment Mum

I go to bed on Sunday nights more knackered than when I finish on Friday evenings. My weekends start with me schlepping my daughters to stage school and horse riding (which is all done and dusted by Saturday lunch time) and like millions of other parents, I “sacrifice” my free time at the weekends to do…

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Talent Acquisition

10 Candidate Questions That’ll Make You Squirm (But Earn)

There’s nothing worse than working closely with a candidate and genuinely believing that you’ve found them the PERFECT role, only to confidently deliver them the offer and have a curveball hit you out of nowhere! They tell you that they’ve decided to stay at their current company, or that something else has popped up down the…

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Get Used to Feeling Underqualified, Baby

Do you ever feel underqualified for your job? Like, you’re sitting in a meeting with a client who is waffling on about this and that and you deserve an Oscar because you feel so unbelievably out of your depth, but they don’t know that. It’s an out-of-body experience where you find yourself questioning everything you know and all…

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Employer Branding

How HR Uses AI to Uproot Unconscious Bias

Intelligent machines aren’t stealing our jobs – they’re making us better at filling them with right fit hires. The development of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) can sometimes feel like a double-edged sword: we marvel at intelligent machines achieving bigger and better things, but at the same time, they’re starting to outcompete even human superstars at their…