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Talent Acquisition

How to Write an Enticing Job Description (Hint: Get Emotional)

This article is written and sponsored by Breezy HR – an intuitive, flexible and affordable ATS that thinks everyone on your team can get emotionally invested in your recruiting and hiring. Breezy – A Breath of Fresh HR. I’m begging you: if you want to write an ah-mazing job description, stay far, far away from the…

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Employer Branding Talent Acquisition

The Importance of Setting Online Boundaries

The online and offline worlds have blended in to each other, which is not always a great outcome for people seeking to maintain a clear separation between personal and professional lives! For generations past, it was simple. Do not mix your personal and professional lives. The combination of such could impact how you were perceived…

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Employer Branding

5 Blueprints for Organisational Success

When building out their teams, fast growth companies should consider this fundamental question: what organisational blueprint best fits their business model? HR professionals have a challenging role – we know that.  After all, they often have to develop process and strategy for the future, when the future is not as clear as they would like. …

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The Secret to Pitching For New Business

Recruitment is a complex business. In any other sales role, the salesperson gets to focus on the customer, but recruiters have to balance the needs of both the hiring manager and the candidate. It’s too simplistic to regard the candidate as the product, because the candidate has free will and will do what’s right for them,…

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Employer Branding

Be As Nice As You Want, Just Don’t Be Rude

Jeremy in accounts is extremely annoying to talk to and most probably hiding something – no one is that friendly. Ask him one question and commit to 20 minutes of sickly-sweet small talk. Send him an email and he replies within the minute, wishing you a good morning, afternoon or evening. He’s always got time for everyone.…

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Employer Branding

The Fundamentals of Employee Advocacy

Employee advocacy is a hot topic; it’s the form of workforce marketing that really gives the power to the people. Think, ‘straight form the horse’s mouth’ as an underlying principle here. Instead of relying solely on official, corporate messages as the means to marketing the business, employee advocacy is all about embracing the individuality of current…

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Workplace

Oops! Ridiculous CV Errors to Avoid #Awkward

Okay, so putting together your CV is a hard task, we know this much. Regardless how long you’ve been in the workforce, running through all your experience with a fine tooth comb to pick out the best bits, then condensing everything down into a 1-2 page document is no mean feat. If you’re sat there trying to…

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Employer Branding

The 10 Types of People in Every Office

If you work in an office, you will obviously meet lots of different types of people during your day to day duties. Whether you work on a small team in a small office, or a team in a big office with other companies, there will always be 10 types of people which can be found in…

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Talent Acquisition

6 Ways Top Billing Recruiters Are Different from the Rest

Top billers are a rare breed of recruiter. Consultants who consistently out-perform their targets and make a lot of money for the business and themselves do not grow on trees. What 6 qualities separate such beasts from the masses? 1. Drive An over-riding and single-minded desire to succeed is key. That feeling of wanting to…