Over the past decade, we’ve all been fascinated, entertained and a bit puzzled by the brain-teaser-type interview questions that many employers have incorporated into their hiring process. Why are manhole covers round? How many golf balls can you fit into a school bus? Popularized by Google, the jury is still out on whether the ability…
Most people would like to deliver a great candidate experience and they would readily admit that they would like to be the best employer out there. But there is no harm in getting tips on how to be even better. Our panel of ten experts have given what they think is the number one tip for…
It’s no easy task achieving work-life balance in today’s unpredictable and fast-paced business world. As we’ve become more dependent on technology and social media, it’s also becoming difficult to separate work from our personal lives. We recently conducted a global study to discover which countries ranked the best for overall work-life balance and cross-compared the…
We speak to Chad MacRae who is a recruiting leader and design thinker with over twelve years of experience in talent acquisition. He is the founder of Recruiting Social, a recruiting services company that supports talent teams across North America and donates 10% of profits to education charities. He has found talent in 45 countries…
Presenteeism refers to the practice of being present at work but not being productive. The culture of presenteeism is widespread; however, it is more of an issue in some countries than others. For example, in the UK, presenteeism has hit record high levels. The number of employees coming into work while sick has more than…
Employee experience is a very topical concept at the moment. A bad experience can severely impact your employer brand and vice versa. But why? We are with Rayanne Thorn, the VP of Marketing at Dovetail Software, an employee lifecycle software, to talk about how she combines marketing, employee experience, and employer branding to seamlessly recruit…
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8 Tips to Managing Millennials
Each employee has different working styles. Because of the diverse makeup of offices today, employees are often grouped with the generations they fall under to study behavioral patterns easier. Millennials, the youngest of the batch, have been notorious for being the most different kind of workers compared to the previous generations. Often, they receive criticism…
Everyone knows that a bit of team bonding can make a work environment more productive, more successful and more fun. So why is it that whenever somebody mentions a “team-building day”, everybody groans internally? Well, because team-building days are notoriously not fun. At best, they’re boring and cliché (trust falls? Really?). At worst, they’re awkward,…
Organisations with a great workplace culture are those where employees feel a real sense of belonging and using a social intranet platform can help to achieve this. As proud winners of the global Jostle Award for Intranet Strategy, we use a social intranet here at Pure to help create a connected and vibrant workplace across…