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Why a Healthy Employee is a Happy Employee

Following on from our employee’s guide to staying healthy, this useful infographic from ChairOffice provides lunchtime inspiration for those aiming to get a head-start on their new year resolutions on keeping healthy and fit. Not only will you feel better overall but you’ll work more efficiently! Remember, keeping healthy is 80% nutrition, 20% working out. Killer…

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Talent Acquisition Timebound

Strictly Finding Your #XFactor: Which Judge Should Recruiters Learn From?

Dancing shoes ready: I am an avid fan of the BBC1 Dance show, Strictly Come Dancing. As a keen intermediate learner of the ballroom and Latin genre, I can critique the celebrities each week, judging their technical ability over flair, substance over style…. Whilst watching this latest series, it dawned on me the parody it…

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5 Essential Steps to Develop Your Team

When I first became a manager, I really struggled with figuring out the best way to develop my team. I was so used to doing it all myself, that I didn’t realize that I had to unlearn a few of the “best practices” that had gotten me to the next level. I soon realized that…

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Life Changes to Make You Happier and More Productive

There are a few lucky people in the world who are doing exactly what they want for work and enjoying every single minute of it. These people feel that they could want nothing more from their work than what they already have. They are completely fulfilled and experience work as being in complete alignment with…

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Everything Candidates Need to Find Find a Job

So, you want to find a job, but what exactly do you need? If you use a combination of various methods and tactics for finding a position, it will increase your options, expand your networking pool and decrease your overall search time. There are three main steps to each job search: preparation, searching and staying…

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Talent Acquisition Timebound Workplace

How Social Media is Used in Recruiting in 2014

As the job market becomes more competitive than ever, social media has significantly impacted recruiting, giving birth to the next big thing: social recruiting. Thanks to this Jobvite study, this data on recruitment and jobseekers demonstrates why technology is vital to recruitment success. Takeaways: Although 93% of recruiters use or plan to use social media, just 18% consider themselves…

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Employer Branding

Can Age Ever Be More than Just a Number?

As a culture we celebrate the ideal of youth. We invent names by which to define it – we talk about ‘millennials’ or ‘Gen x/y/z’ – and as employers we court it, using recruitment initiatives designed to vacuum up new talent. And, perhaps most visibly, we celebrate it in popular culture and politics. Of course…

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5 Essential Tech Devices for Your Job Search

This Tech Tuesday we’re examining the devices that are essential to your job search. Job seeking can be a long, difficult process, an almost 9-5 occupation in itself. Make it easier with technology! Searching for a job is extremely time consuming. It’s important to stay ahead of fellow candidate competition to ensure no opportunity is missed. Technology can enable you to move faster and…

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Top 7 Clichés That Should Be Nowhere Near Your Resume

When proofreading your resume, what do you look out for? Naturally you’ll be on the hunt for misspelled homophones, and of course you’ll endeavour to eliminate any errant punctuation marks. You’ll almost certainly make sure that the formatting of the document is standardised, and if you’ve got any sense you’ll double check those vital contact…