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Talent Acquisition

How to Beat Unconscious Bias in Recruitment

Is your hiring process prejudiced? Recent research from Mckinsey shows that a gender and ethnically diverse workforce produces greater company return than a homogeneous one. So why are we still hiring the wrong people? Well it’s not for the lack of trying. Western companies spend billions every year on trying to de-clone their workforce. In 2015,…

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Workplace

7 Tips to Make Interview Nerves Disappear

You’ve landed an interview for your next big career move – a goal you have been working towards for a long time. You have all the experience required and you know you’d be a great fit but there’s one problem – your interview nerves are setting in. Believe me when I say you are not…

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Talent Acquisition

Recruiter’s Buzzword Bingo: Who Wants to Play?

Everyone enjoys playing games – especially if it’s a welcome distraction from real work. Sadly there’s no prize on offer here but if you win you could get bragging rights all week which, lets face it, is worth more than any prize. With the start of the new year a lot of people are considering changing…

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Employer Branding

What Candidates REALLY Look for in a New Job

All things being equal job seekers prefer to choose a new role not on the basis of salary or job title but for the sake of the employer brand and organisational culture. A Korn Ferry study found 73 per cent of respondents claim their number one driver at work is doing a job that has…

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Employer Branding

How Co-Working is Transforming Cities

In the last 10 years, we have experienced one of the biggest changes in the work market: the rise of co-working spaces. Between 2005 and today, it grew from just 1 in San Francisco to 7,800 co-working spaces across the globe. In a year from now, predictions forecast 37 000 co-working spaces worldwide gathering more than…