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Talent Acquisition

8 Reasons Short-term Hiring Could Boost Your Business

The summer months tend to see annual leave requests flood in as people plan trips abroad, staycations and childcare during the school holidays. However well-planned, coordinated (and well-deserved!) staff holidays are, employers can still be concerned about keeping everything on track and ensuring productivity doesn’t drop. One solution to this is to recruit temporary staff…

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Employer Branding

The Essentials of an Excellent Employer Brand

What’s in the secret sauce to developing a great employer brand? To find out what the ingredients are, we sat down with Adam Glassman, the Recruitment Strategies Manager at Alorica; a global customer service BPO with over 100,000 employees in 16 countries around the world. For a full summary keep reading below and remember to subscribe to the Employer Branding Podcast.…

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Employer Branding

The Unusual Team-Building Methods of Famous Bosses

For many of us, the phrase ‘team building’ will conjure up ideas of building straw structures to resemble bridges, thinking up an ‘interesting’ fact about ourselves or performing trust falls. While these activities may be traditional team building methods, today’s workforce are open to a much wider variety of activities which have just as effective…

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Talent Acquisition

10 Things You Should Never Say to a New Work Colleague…Ever

It would be lovely to think we could say anything and everything to our fellow desk slaves. But let’s get real: the modern office is a labyrinth, and even the best intentions go awry. Whatever your candidate is trying to express, be sure it’s not taken the wrong way. Give them this guide so they…

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Employer Branding

5 Steps to an Employer Brand Story

Stories have been in this world for a long, long time. Ever since the first human beings started to communicate with another, the art of storytelling was formed. Knowing exactly when it started is a myth… until of course we (finally!) develop the first ever time machine and travel back in time to figure it…