To create a productive work environment, employers must first concentrate on their employees. Ensuring your workforce are happy, healthy and motivated means the overall quality of work will improve, as well as your company remaining a fun, innovative and exciting place to work. Creativity is an important aspect of this. If employees don’t feel stimulated…
There’s far more to a job than the responsibilities the role involves and factors such as the size of the team, the working environment and the working hours can be just as important to an individual looking for their next opportunity. So when looking for a new job, candidates want to build a thorough idea about a company’s values…
In 2015 marketers were due to spend $514 billion worldwide advertising their companies products and services. All this money is spent to attract more customers and to generate more sales. The engagement of customers is top priority for businesses, and if done right, it will create new and return customers. So would you ignore a…
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If you’re having trouble placing candidates or your hiring process isn’t running as smoothly as you would have hoped, it may be time to take a step back and assess what exactly is going wrong. Sometimes even the smallest of changes can make a world of difference, so it’s worth taking the time to identify…
The idea of hiring someone from the other side of the world to work for your company can be daunting. The thought of being unable to drop by their desk and see what they’re working on at any given moment can be enough to put someone off hiring virtual employees, period; but the benefits of…
One of the more recent obsessions in the HR world is “content strategy,” but few in the space know how to execute it. As usual, the consumer space is ahead of HR in this area, so that’s where we can look for the best resources. Here is a list of the top 12 Twitter profiles…
When you’re spending nearly every single day alongside your colleagues, it’s no surprise that sometimes sparks fly and office romances happen. In fact, many people meet the person they marry in the workplace! Though there are a lot of success stories, an office romance also has potential to turn things a bit pear shape in the…
In the wake of another Valentine’s Day I thought it poignant to reflect on the often exciting, mostly tumultuous relationship that Talent Acquisition shares with HR. Drawn from various backgrounds, these two conflicting personalities are often thrown together in a passionate embrace and expected to keep the flame of HR service delivery burning. There is no…