Ambitious employees want to develop into leaders at work. They want to grow and prosper in your business. So your reputation for developing employees into leaders, managers and more, is pivotal, and might just be the most important aspect of your employment brand. We’re with Morgan Hoogvelt, the Global Director of Talent Acquisition at ESAB…
The average UK employee spends 37 hours a week at work and with job roles occupying such a large chunk of our time, feeling comfortable while working has never been more important. Some companies go to extreme lengths to put employee satisfaction at the heart of their workplace design. For instance, tech titan Microsoft invested in treehouses for its employees,…
The mental health crisis amongst university students is extremely worrying, but it is often forgotten that graduates can struggle post-university once they’ve entered the workforce, too. Whilst there is clearly still work to be done to ensure students are receiving adequate support at university, there is, even more, to be done to ensure graduates are…
We are, on average, living longer, and demographic changes will have implications in all areas of life. The aging workforce will soon become one of the main challenges facing organizations. What people want from work is broadly consistent across generations but some older workers may be much less likely to have had opportunities for training,…
We bring you yet another panel of ten experts and this time we’re talking all things recruitment marketing. But what is recruitment marketing I hear you say? I mean, it sounds pretty obvious going by its title but is it? We asked our experts to give us their own definition of it, see if you agree.…
Sponsored by MightyRecruiter “Trust, but verify” is a time-tested and effective way to do business. That holds especially true with top candidates as they reach the stage of being cleared for hire. It’s the nature of the job market for candidates to cast themselves in the best possible light to the broadest group of potential…
A bad hire can be one of the most expensive decisions you can make, especially for the programmers in IT. The individual programming mistake can be costly, but the behaviors of the software developer can be even more costly. Just take the example of the person responsible for the bad design affecting the iPhone 4’s…
Southwest Airlines is a major American airline headquartered in Dallas, Texas, and the world’s largest low-cost carrier. It’s also famous for its people-centric approach and above all, its culture. What’s the secret sauce behind the enviable employer brand of Southwest Airlines? Find out in our latest piece with their People Director, Shari Conway. A servant leader…
Getting to the office at the crack of dawn and leaving late is possibly an extra signaling exercising of one’s dedication, in preference to it being an effective use of time. The idea of running 5 days every week with two-day weekends and some weeks of annual holiday is simply something human beings receive. But…