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Employer Branding

4 Ways to Promote Gender Equality in the Workplace

Despite the strides we have made in gender equality, female workers still get paid less than their male counterparts, with women significantly underrepresented in senior management roles. Discrimination and unequal pay is illegal, but the facts show that we still face huge obstacles in equal opportunities, and employers play a vital role in overcoming these…

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Employer Branding

5 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Firing an Employee

There isn’t a single company on Earth that gets all of their hires right – even recruiting thought-leaders like Google. This fact has one inevitable conclusion: at some point you will need to look a bad hire in the eye and tell them they’re fired. Yet why are we so bad at letting people go…

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Talent Acquisition

5 of the Best New Recruiting Apps

Mobile swiping apps aren’t just for finding love and dating. Recruiters are increasingly turning to the Apple Store and Google Play to find new talent. By instantly matching employees with employers, mobile job apps have become must-have tools for hiring. Jobr say job seekers have swiped on their vacancies more than 100 million times and…

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Workplace

How HR Can Manage Stress in the Workplace

The word ‘stress’ was generated by Hans Selye. He defined it as an unexpected and unpredicted response of the brain and body to change. Stress is a self-produced pain occurring in thoughts. It varies in different situations and environments. In an employee at work, stress generates from when the workplace expects more results compared to…

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Talent Acquisition

5 Instances it’s OK to Say ‘No’ to Clients

As recruiters it’s in our DNA to say ‘yes’ to clients. We want to please them because their business is our livelihood, at the end of the day. But if you’ve been doing this for a while, you’ll know that the most fulfilling client relationships come about when the client can rely on you for…