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Why Gamification is the Key to Employee Engagement

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…

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The 10 Most Hated Types of Employees [INFOGRAPHIC]

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…

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The UK’s Weirdest Interview Questions on Record

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…

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How to Build Employee Trust with Honest Career Conversations

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…

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4 Reasons to Create an Amazing Company Culture

Company culture is a tough thing to get right and yet, more often than not, a business does not put any work into developing its own internal culture. For many of today’s modern job-seekers, they are not just looking for a job that pays the rent; they are looking for careers with progression. They are…

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The Four Worst Things You Can Do at an Interview

Over the last ten years of Beringer Tame, we’ve seen our fair share of interview clangers. It never ceases to amaze me how reasonable, intelligent people go off on the weirdest tangents when sitting in front of an interviewer. It is easy to overthink an interview: what makes me look desirable, what makes me look…

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Does Office Design Really Affect Productivity?

Over the years, there has been a drastic change in the way office space is designed. From large offices crammed full of desks, to the more recent open-plan, collaborative spaces – office interiors have evolved to reflect attitudes to work and changes in the economy. So does office design really effect productivity in the workplace?…

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12 Ways to Speed Up Your Job Search

Finding a job can take a long time, even when you do everything right on your end. This becomes painfully obvious at times when you have to wait for an employer to sort through information they collected from your resume, get back test scores and go through multiple interviews. Luckily, there are ways to expedite…

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Why It’s Important to Inject Your Personality into Your Resume

If there is no ‘U’ in your res’u‘me, then it isn’’t fit for purpose. Since computers were invented, the advice regarding resume/CV writing has been ‘keep it simple’, on two or three sides of A4 on plain paper and no fancy fonts. However, there are an increasing number of digital formats emerging which allow you to present yourself…