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Employer Branding

Are You Doing Enough for Your Employees’ Mental Health?

Poor mental health can have a devastating impact on businesses and of course the employees themselves. Mental health disorders are becoming more common and given that we spend upwards of eight hours a day in the workplace, it’s time employers start to take accountability. Office furniture suppliers, DBI Furniture asked over 2,000 people if they felt…

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Talent Acquisition

Data-Driven Talent Acquisition in the Google and Facebook Era

When Google and Facebook joined the recruitment industry, the game changed. The rules guiding how talent acquisition professionals find talent have shifted, with big recruiting websites now realizing that they have serious competition.  These two tech titans brought with them a massive database of job-seekers and businesses. In fact, this year Facebook hit 2.3 billion…

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Employer Branding

Traditional Goal Setting Methodology is Broken. Here’s How to Fix it

An effective goal setting process is a critical step in building the foundational skills of leadership in your employees. However, many organizations are having a hard time finding a method that aligns with their organizational needs. Many organizations are still using traditional goal-setting methods, which aren’t producing the desired results they hope to see. The…

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Employer Branding

Talent Attraction in the Healthcare Industry

Are you struggling with nursing talent? Today we talk with a community hospital which is part of a large-scale healthcare system. We’ll learn about their Employer Value Proposition and their best talent attraction strategies. Theresa Mazzaro is a Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist at Suburban Hospital (part of the Johns Hopkins Healthcare System). Have a listen…

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Workplace

13 Ways to Help Your Employees Boost Productivity

HR professionals can boil their role down to three main elements: the welfare, productivity, and all-round excellence of their workforce. But with so many people talking about the middle one, productivity, these days, it’s easy to spread misinformation about what the best productivity tips really are. In tandem with out-and-out bad habits such as procrastination…

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Employer Branding

Parents Want Career Progression Too

Sally was forced to leave her management job in HR at a large company after being turned down for any kind of flexible working while on maternity leave. She asked for reduced hours, a compressed week and a nine-day fortnight. None was acceptable. She was offered a lesser role. She opted instead to leave and…

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Employer Branding

Why Some Adults Want the Jobs They Dreamed of as Children

Looking back at our childhoods, most of us will be able to remember the dreams we had of what our lives would look like when we were older. But new research by Perkbox Insights has found that the majority of adults never really get over those dreams. Whilst 96% of adults were not successful in making their childhood dream…

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Employer Branding

4 Reasons SMEs Need a Workplace Wellbeing Strategy

Many SMEs think that well-being strategies are confined to big corporates. They are wrong. A study commissioned by private medical insurer AXA PPP Healthcare found that eight out of ten of the UK’s SMEs have no health and wellbeing strategy in place. But, nearly half of 1,500 SME employees polled in the survey said they…

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Employer Branding

Setting a Standard of Good Work

The CIPD and the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan have launched a new framework for good working practices, aimed at making London the best place to live and work. At 10Eighty, we believe everyone deserves a job they love, and we focus on helping people to fulfill their potential and achieve their aspirations. The new…