Do you look around the workplace and spot people doing something they shouldn’t be? Are people pretending to work when really they are time wasting? We all know that one person in the office who is slacking and making other people unproductive as a result of this. This infographic by GetvoIP pin points 5 types…
Categories
13 Signs of Disengaged Employees
Are you making your working environment and everyone else’s around you a toxic place? Is your negative attitude being passed on to other people? Does waking up on a Monday morning with the thought of having to go to work just make you want to go back to sleep? If so, you could be the…
The term ‘social selling’ has been doing the rounds for a while now on the interwebs, at conferences and in countless webinars. What does it actually mean? Here’s a definition by Hubspot: Social selling is when salespeople use social media to interact directly with their prospects. Salespeople will provide value by answering prospect questions and…
If you have just graduated university or finished college, then it is time to enter the real world of work. Even if you are still in education but searching for jobs, you need to be prepared for the change that is ahead. This includes tailoring your resume, preparing for interviews and knowing the skill set that…
We’ve all been there, you spend hours preparing for an interview and set off to your appointment satisfied that there couldn’t possibly be a question that you haven’t mentally prepared a genius answer for. Then BANG, a bewildering, stress inducer of a bombshell is dropped on you and you’re left in a cold sweat as you decipher the…
It’s amazing how many parallels can be drawn between a job and a relationship; there are the faux pas on when and when not to follow up, the need to contain your enthusiasm and the importance of playing it ‘cool’. Post-interview stress can, at times, be maddening – just like the waiting game after a…
You have a LinkedIn profile, but no one is contacting you. What do you need to do to draw attention to your profile? The secret is in sharing status updates that appeal to your network and potential employers. LinkedIn reported that job seekers who updated their status weekly were 10 times more likely to be contacted by…
Last week over 180 in-house recruiters gathered for the Talent Leaders Connect event in London. Acting as a forerunner to the Candidate Experience Awards (CandEs), an organisation’s candidate experience (or lack of) was hotly debated among some of the recruitment industry’s leading professionals. The line-up included Global HRD and author Peter Wright; Forward Partners’ Matt Buckland, who recently…
The employer-employee relationship is broken. Managers face a seemingly impossible dilemma: You can’t afford to offer lifetime employment. But you can’t build a lasting, innovative business when everyone acts like a free agent. The solution: Stop thinking of employees as family or free agents, and start thinking of them as allies on a tour of…