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Talent Acquisition

Why Making New Years Resolutions Suck – Later in the Year

Remember waking up on New Year’s day and having all those good intentions to transform your life with a set of goals and resolutions that would totally allow you to become a new person in some way, versus all the previous years? The way you know you are going to wake up 365 days later…

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Employer Branding

Are Employee Referrals the Best Way to Hire Top Talent?

According to Bullhorn, existing candidate referrals ranked as the single best source for high-quality talent in 2018. It makes sense, your current employees are on the front-line of your business every day. They understand your company culture, values, and industry, and therefore exactly the type of person who would fit in well in your organization…

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Employer Branding

Can We Solve the Productivity Puzzle With a Shorter Working Week?

For over a century, the five-day working week has been a pillar of the business world. Employees reported to a desk in an allocated building and worked allocated hours. However, technology has allowed employee expectations to change rapidly, as the modern workforce demands a more flexible approach. With traditional views on how to tackle the…

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Talent Acquisition

Jobs on Facebook: Our Year in Review

When Facebook decided to create a jobs marketplace about 18 months ago, they scored another home run. Recruiting through social media is one of the most important and transformative trends in the past decade for this industry. These platforms offer a faster process: Not only do they provide recruiters an opportunity to reach large numbers…

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Employer Branding

3 Reasons For Your Boss to Approve Employer Brand Travel

Sponsored content Some companies have unlimited travel budgets, but most do not. Every flight, hotel, business dinner is scrutinized and limited in many corporate organizations. And we’re not even talking about business class travel expenses. Basic travel is not cheap. If you’ve ever bought a pint or bottle of water on a layover in an…

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Employer Branding

Customizing Your EVP to The Candidate Journey

I’d be very surprised if you had never used a 3M product at some point in your life. It’s probably best known for its tapes and adhesives, and possibly the trusted post-it note. But this global company has got its fingers in a lot of pies from healthcare to science, technology to automotive and the…

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Workplace

Boosting Employee Productivity by Learning to Relax

You expect your team to work hard, work smart, and enjoy their work through the week. But when somebody in your crew doesn’t know how to relax after work, you are unlikely to see the best of them in the office. An employee that continues to think about work even when they’re ‘off the clock’…

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Employer Branding

Leveraging Professional Development for a Supportive Workplace

Professional development is that perk within the organization that everyone knows they have access to but is still often not utilized in a way that can help to keep the company culture and support.  Employees take university classes, get certifications, but what if professional development was leveraged to develop a spirit of inclusion and support…

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Talent Acquisition

RPO vs. Staffing Agency: What’s Right for Your Recruitment Efforts?

In a tight labor market, it is critical to have a highly effective talent acquisition (TA) team and comprehensive strategy to engage and hire the best candidates for your organization. And as more companies look to outsource this function to get better results, a few questions arise: What’s the difference between a recruitment process outsourcing…