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Employer Branding

5 Tips on Encouraging Women in Business

Tips on encouraging more women to progress in business are just as effective for encouraging more men to stay and climb the career ladder in your organization as well. The aim is to create a culture where everyone can work in a way that makes them feel productive and engaged. Identifying any unconscious bias and…

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Should You Blind Hire?

Prejudice in recruitment is prevalent and hard to overcome. Human beings aren’t good at being perfectly unbiased. We all have bias, conscious or unconscious, and it’s this deep-rooted nature of human prejudice that remains a recurring hurdle in diversity recruitment. In order to tackle discrimination, we must address our own bias and challenge these ‘natural’…

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Employer Branding

Which Brands Have Championed Diversity and How?

Being recognised for doing something well can always help boost the organisation’s profile. Sometimes there is no harm in looking at how other companies are surpassing everyone else when it comes to delivering something you strive to want to do too. Having one of the most diverse and inclusive places to work is something many…

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Talent Acquisition

4 Tools That Can Reinvigorate Your Job Descriptions

Ah, the noble job description. It plays such an important role in drawing candidates to your open positions, and yet, (how do I say this gently?) … many of them suck. OK, so maybe that wasn’t so gentle but it is true. And now that we’ve addressed the elephant in the room, let’s talk about…

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Talent Acquisition

Avoid These Outdated Tactics When Recruiting Technical Talent

The demand for talented developers is at a fever pitch, and the supply just isn’t there to meet it. With 87 percent of developers stating that they’re currently employed and only 13 percent actively looking for their next job, it would be easy to conclude that growing your engineering team this year is essentially an…