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Talent Acquisition

Post Placement: Setting New Hires Up For Success

Setting new employees up for success starts before you make anyone an offer and ensuring they continue to be a contributing member of your team extends well and truly beyond their probation period. In this post, I’m going to cover off on some of the main reasons people don’t work out and what you can…

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Employer Branding

Why Employee Engagement is the Key to Employee Advocacy

We spoke to Dave Hawley, VP of Marketing and Sales Development at SocialChorus about why is employee engagement is critical to boosting employee advocacy and what the benefits of employee engagement are. You can listen to the podcast on iTunes, SoundCloud (embed below) or keep reading for a transcript of our conversation. Dave’s mission to “bring work to life”: One…

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Employer Branding

How Employee Wellbeing Programs Can Benefit Your Business

A healthy employee, is a happy employee; and a happy employee is a productive one!  That’s why more and more companies are providing health and fitness support in the workplace; with 70% of US employers offering employee-sponsored health and wellness programs in 2015, compared to just 58% in 2008. If your employees’ jobs involve them spending long…

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Timebound

Top 10 New Years Resolutions for Career Success

New year, new start and all that. For a lot of us, the beginning of a new year is the force we need to kick us into action and to encourage us to adopt a proactive attitude towards achieving our goals. Though new years resolutions are commonly focused on getting fit or picking up a new hobby; a large number…

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Workplace

3 Tips for Finding a Job at the Right Startup

Working for a startup is typically both exciting and challenging. And for someone who’s spent their entire career climbing the corporate ladder or sitting in a cubicle from nine to five, expanding a job search to include startups can be an excellent way to reinvigorate your career. However, you must make sure that you choose…

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Employer Branding

What Work Benefits Do Millennials Want?

If you want to attract and retain the top talent on the market, as an employer it’s important that you stand out from your competitors. You can do this by building an exceptional employer brand, that really sells your company culture and the success of your business; or you can offer employee perks and benefits, that…

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Workplace

How the World’s Top Billionaire Entrepreneurs Found Success

Starting your own business is a huge gamble, though for some of the world’s most successful entrepreneurs it was certainly a gamble worth making! For some of the globe’s billionaire businessmen, having their finger in just one pie just wasn’t enough apparently and have pursued multiple ideas since finding success. It doesn’t come easy however, and…

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Timebound

My Great Global Adventure: Goodbye Hong Kong, Hello Moscow

This article is sponsored by AXA, a multinational insurance firm. Will Moore is the first winner of the Great Global Adventure by AXA, a competition that offers a world-first prize – an all-expenses paid travelling experience, that includes two top internships with international AXA teams, a volunteering opportunity, and the chance to tick off his bucket list.…

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Talent Acquisition

What Makes a Recruiter Great isn’t Their Sales Skills; it’s This…

What makes a recruiter great? Is it her use of state-of-the-art technology? Is it his efficient process? Those can be factors, but what matters most is what’s at the core – the innate ability to connect with people. Recruiting is about relationships, after all. There’s a theory that says recruiters are best when they’re like…