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Looking for quick and easy ways to make your life a little more jolly and productive? Congratulations, you’ve just hit the jackpot. Read on for our top 5 tricks for transforming your everyday. 1. Put down your phone before bed You may feel like the world will stop turning or your life will crumble into tiny pieces, but the reality is quite the…
Why is social media really nothing new? Why is Twitter king and LinkedIn boring? How do you deal with trolls on social media? What’s vaguebooking? To get some answers, I speak to Susie Boniface, journalist and author of The Bluffer’s Guide to Social Media. Have a listen to the interview on iTunes and Soundcloud or keep reading for…
If time spent writing your CV is really just time spent staring at a blank screen, you’re not alone, we’ve been there too. There are no two ways about it – condensing all of your skills and experience into one slick document can be challenging. We aren’t born knowing how to write a great CV, so it’s up to you to…
“I am convinced that nothing we do is more important than hiring and developing people. At the end of the day you bet on people, not on strategies” – Larry Bossidy The phrase you are what you eat translates nicely to recruitment. Companies are built on great employees – hiring is therefore the most important thing we do. There…
Ever felt like your workplace is full of Toms, Dicks and Harries who don’t know each other from bars of soap? Is the summer party a disaster waiting to happen? A company full of mutual strangers can be damaging to its working culture, often inhibiting overall productivity as well as personal performances. While you can’t force friendships in the office,…
You’ve been tasked with winning your company some new business. Now you’ve got chills and they’re multiplying because you know exactly what this means. Cold. Calling. In a perfect world you’d always keep your ear to the ground, listening for new leads and sales openings. Following your nose, you’d always have specific people to chase up and a verifiable agenda. Business development? Easy peasy! Unfortunately it’s not always…
This article is sponsored by Technically Compatible, an online skills testing tool designed to streamline the recruitment of web, IT and software professionals. For tips and tricks on avoiding baddies and attracting goodies, download their guide for free: The Gamification of the Hiring Game – Complete Your Hiring Mission. Let’s begin with a story. A top US recruiter was…
Being at work can take up a huge amount of your life (think around 92,120 hours over a lifetime!), so it’s important to be happy while you’re there. Cultivating an environment that makes you cheerful and positive can dramatically increase your your motivation and productivity. Here are 7 daily ‘happy habits’ to try for yourself: 1) Start the day right There’s nothing worse…
