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Talent Acquisition

Which European City Should you Take your First Graduate Job in?

Whether your degree comes to an end this winter or you have one more semester to go, you’ll already be thinking about your first serious graduate job and where it might take you. But perhaps this is a topsy-turvy way to look at things. No job or career takes up every moment of your life,…

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Workplace

Are You Ready for a Career Change?

If you’re tired of your job and you’re thinking it’s time to switch careers, you aren’t alone. 60% of working adults want a new career, but 40% of them don’t actually know which career they would want to switch to. Age doesn’t factor when it comes to a career change, as research shows both young…

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Workplace

7 Ways to Receive Feedback on Your Job Application

Getting rejected from a job you’d really wanted is never nice. But there is something you can do to make it seem less of a waste; a way to make it into a good thing for your long-term career trajectory. That thing is simple: asking for feedback. It’ll help you learn areas where you (or…

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Employer Branding

Halloween Horrors in the Workplace

We’ve all experienced the kind of horrors like spiders and the odd mouse which can have people screaming in fear in the workplace, but there horrors of another kind which are more common in the office – the manager kind. Recent research commissioned by Perkbox has found that over half of working Brits have had a…

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Employer Branding

8 of 10 Brits Admit Observing Presenteeism in the Workplace

According to a recent CIPD survey, people coming into work when they are ill also known as ‘Presenteeism’ has more than tripled since 2010, with 86% of employees admitting they had observed Presenteeism in the workplace. Research by the Centre of Mental shows Presenteeism from Mental Health alone is estimated to cost the UK economy…

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Workplace

The Six Most Wanted Workplace Benefits

In a time when we’re struggling to give pay raises or bonuses, more employers are investing in employee benefits to encourage retention and loyalty as well as maintaining a positive and enthusiastic workforce. Employees are looking beyond financial gains for job satisfaction, as a wealth of workplace benefits can support a more balanced work-life blend…

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Employer Branding

Strengthen your EVP Through Continuous Learning

Today we are talking to a professional services firm with over 300,000 employees and will learn about talent challenges, strategy, EVP metrics, and more. Liane Bilicki is the Group Brand Director – Recruitment Brand at Deloitte. Have a listen to the episode below, keep reading for a summary and be sure to subscribe to the Employer…

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Workplace

7 Visualization Techniques to Calm Your Anxious Mind

Everybody in the world is anxious. Professionally and on the street, it feels like you’re surrounded by natural enemies. And the most lethal of all is yourself: you with your insecurities, imposter syndrome, self-doubt, and habit of saying the wrong thing. Right? Nope. We live and work in a system where anxiety feels like the…

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Employer Branding

The Contingent Army: Employers Failing to Up-Skill Vital Workforce

As the influence of technology continually transforms the way we live and work, the workforce and the skills needed from it are changing too. The rise of increasingly diverse and fluid ways of working – often enabled by technology – has allowed the contingent workforce to flourish. From contractors to freelancers to volunteers, today this…