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Employer Branding

3 Ways to Improve Your Employees’ Working Week

Juggling the traditional 9 to 5 in the office can be a struggle for employees in the 21st century, as they try to balance work with childcare, care of elderly parents and the slew of other responsibilities. As employers, we should be looking for ways to make the working week more practical for our workers.…

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Employer Branding Talent Acquisition

How to Spot Lies in a CV

With new research from Robert Half’s Office Team suggesting that nearly half of candidate’s lie within their CV (a 25% increase from their 2011 survey) as a recruiter you need to enhance your ability to spot those white lies. Using probing questions, fine-tuning your sifting skills and going beyond simply looking at CVs will help you…

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Employer Branding Talent Acquisition

Unconscious Bullying in Leadership

It is a unique experience to be in when you identify the concept of unconscious bullying in leadership. For many business professionals, this behaviour is put down to differences in opinion or personality clashes. The reality, however, is a far greater concern, and something that needs to be addressed across all stages of the talent…

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Employer Branding

Powering Up Your Employer Brand

EDF Energy is one of the UK’s largest energy companies and the largest producer of low-carbon electricity, producing around one-sixth of the nation’s electricity from its nuclear power stations, wind farms and coal & gas power plants. So how does it do employer branding? We asked Neil Daly who is the Employer Brand & EVP…

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Talent Acquisition

How to Attract Recruiters on LinkedIn

In modern times, LinkedIn can be a competitive place. Lots of keen professionals are exploring the network for the right opportunities. As such, recruiters are suitably present to pick them up. Due to this competitive nature, you need to make sure that you’re utilizing LinkedIn in the right way to attract recruiters. In brief, LinkedIn…

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Employer Branding Talent Acquisition

3 Steps to Help You Find The Perfect Candidate

Hiring the perfect candidate is a tricky process, one that takes a lot of patience and understanding. Skilled candidates seem to be an increasingly rare find, in fact, according to the Gartner CIO Agenda Report: “66 percent of CIOs believe there is a talent crisis in the world”. GetApp’s survey of 400 recruiters and 300 consumers…

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Employer Branding

What’s in a Name and Why it Matters in the Workplace

Unless you’ve changed it by deed poll your name is the one given to you by your parents at birth, so how important is it to get it right? My name Ushma is a traditional Hindu name which my parents gave me.  It means warmth, but I’m always cold, so slightly ironic! My dad wanted…

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Employer Branding

4 Steps to Creating an Effective Talent Strategy

At our most recent series of Director Clubs, we teamed up with experts from Grant Thornton to lead discussions on the current talent landscape. We were able to draw on the findings of Grant Thornton’s ‘People Power’ research to highlight how talent and skills can be one of the biggest accelerators of business growth, but…

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Employer Branding

Gender Pay Reporting

Gender pay reporting legislation requires employers with 250 or more employees to publish statutory calculations every year showing how large the pay gap is between their male and female employees. The employer must publish six calculations showing their: average gender pay gap as a mean average average gender pay gap as a median average average…