Undercover RecruiterJob seekers beware — when you’re trying to get your foot in the door, personal branding can mean the difference between whether that door gets opened, or slammed in your face. Your personal brand communicates to the world exactly who you are and what you’re capable of, and if your brand isn’t on point, you can kiss…
In a day and age where business has become predominantly digital, most business leaders understand the importance of integrating social media into their sales and marketing strategies, however, many fail to consider it when it comes to attracting the top candidates to their organisation. Recruitment is a two way process and it is just as…
For most of us, mornings are miserable. Communicating with people is off the agenda until you’ve had your morning coffee. However, there is the rare and endangered species named ‘The Morning Person’ – the kind that is motivated, cheerful, and energetic before 9 am. How do they do it, I hear you ask? Well, I…
Has your company cracked the employee engagement piece yet? Very few companies that I’m aware of seem to be happy with their levels of engagement and are constantly looking for new ways to tackle the issue. Our friends and staff survey specialists at Scancapture have looked at employee engagement from a psychology point of view in the graphic above.…
Hiring the right person can make a huge difference and determine the success or failure of a small company. It is therefore one of the most important decisions every entrepreneur will have to make at some point. Small businesses are often pressured for time when looking for a new employee, but rush is one of…
Organisations across industries are turning to gamification to crack the employee engagement code. Gamification has been used by companies to engage their customers for some time now, using social media and mobile technologies to deliver contests, challenges and rewards. Now, however, enterprises are beginning to uncover the value that games can add inside the organisation…
Unfortunately, a workforce full of employees without any flaws is hard to come by and some times you just have to accept that there are going to be people that make getting through the working day a little bit difficult to say the least. Whether they just don’t put the effort in, or have a…
When preparing for an interview, there are a few key suspects that you expect to crop up amongst the questions asked, allowing you the opportunity to plan and answer them to the best of your ability. However, not all interviewers like to stick to a generic interview structure and according to findings in a study conducted by…
Is there an employer and employee disconnect in the workplace? LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman thinks that is the case and recently penned a book about this called The Alliance: Managing Talent in the Networked Age. The issue is that companies don’t foster open and honest career conversations. Therefore Hoffman argues that it’s time that we, as…
