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Employer Branding

7 Steps for Mentoring an Aspiring Female Leader

We are hearing first-hand from the organisations and guest speakers involved in our Women in Leadership programme about the powerful support which mentoring can provide when developing aspiring female leaders. If you are in the process of examining your organisation’s progression pipeline and looking for ways to help address any gender balances, we recommend introducing…

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Talent Acquisition

7 Signs Your Candidate is Just Not That Into Your Role

It’s a sad but familiar story. You find the perfect person for the job. They’re qualified, experienced and within budget. Boxes ticked. As time goes by you let your client fall more in love with them, only to have them pull out at the eleventh hour. Why? Because the ‘perfect person’ never cared as much as you…

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Workplace

6 Ways to Cope If You’ve Got a Terrible Manager

If you’re in a job you love but have a boss you hate, things can get difficult. Management makes a real difference to working life – motivation can disappear if you feel uninspired or under appreciated. But if it looks like they’re here to stay – it might be worth adjusting your mindset and changing…

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Talent Acquisition

How to Tell Your Story with Content Marketing

Isn’t there enough content out there already? How can business owners find time for social? How can we ensure we keep it human online? I speak to Chris Marr of the Content Marketing Academy to get all the answers. Listen to the interview below and be sure to subscribe to the Employer Branding Podcast. There is a lot of…

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Workplace

Top 4 Secrets for Acing Your Next Interview

Shhhh, keep it schtum! In the third episode of our graduate podcast series, we reveal the secrets of job interview success. The interview is the final hurdle in landing that all important job. The problem is, when it’s your first job interview, it can be hard to know what to expect. That’s why we have revealed all…

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Employer Branding Talent Acquisition

3 Must Haves for Your Recruitment Strategy

I often speak to companies about how they recruit and the challenges they experience. One of the questions I ask is “How do you recruit new people into your business?”, followed by “What recruitment challenges do you have?”. Many companies see a similar set of challenges regardless of their industry or sector: Can’t find people…

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Workplace

The Interview Question Checklist for Jobs in Communications

If you love to share, engage, write, promote, or be creative, then a job in communications could be just what you’re looking for. Alternatively, you may already be doing comms, but want a promotion. Either way, the next several years will be offering rich pickings, because communication jobs of all stripes are on the rise:…

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Workplace

How to Include Hard and Soft Skills in Your Resume

Through your education and work experiences, you’ve collected quite a bit of know how. Whether it be learning specific programs or tools for your industry or learning how to be more adaptable in the workplace, you want to make sure your resume reflects your skill set. When it comes to applying for jobs, skills are…

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Talent Acquisition

Do You Need a Talent Community?

Everyone seems to have a different opinion on what exactly makes up a talent community. Is it the contents of your CRM? Your job board resume database? The collection of people that ‘follow’ your company on LinkedIn? For me, there isn’t necessarily a single hard and fast definition – what there is, though, is an…