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…
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…
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…
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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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…
Christmas may be ‘the most wonderful time of the year’, but for workers, the festive period can mean longer hours, busier shifts and more pressure. December can leave workers feeling drained, unmotivated and unable to perform to the best of their abilities. This is bad news for the businesses that rely so heavily on keeping…
You’ve got yourself a talented team of people that are skilled in their jobs – of course, you don’t want to lose them. Employees are the most valuable asset to your business and a high turnover of them can cripple your business. Job vacancies have been at their highest in the UK which means that…
Charles H. Duell, the Commissioner of the US patent office, once said this: “Everything that can be invented has been invented.” He said that in 1899. We can smile at that now, but that kind of thinking haunts me a bit. I think it’s morphed into something more like this: “Everything that can be invented…
There are many different reasons why a company would want to start using monitoring software to track their employees’ habits and activities. Perhaps you want to improve productivity by limiting distractions, maybe you want to beef up security, or you just want to see where your company’s time and resources are going. Regardless of your…