What is Passive Candidate Recruitment?
We are now in a situation globally where there are more job vacancies than talented people to fill them and employers are starting to think more creatively about how best to target their recruitment resources. As a result of this, many are employing passive candidate recruitment. This is essentially...
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Asking Good Questions at a Job Interview
One of the hardest parts of a job interview can be when the panel turns to the applicant and asks if they have any questions. Not asking anything constitutes a missed chance to push yourself to the front of the pack but asking the wrong things can see you marked down. It is important to know the rig...
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How to Produce a Successful Job Interview Presentation
Employers have many different ways of assessing candidates for the positions they have to fill, and one of the most common that you will come across is being asked to produce a presentation. This can seem daunting and is something that people often find quite stressful and can be unsure of how to ta...
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Should You Return to a Former Employer?
The practice of returning to a former employer is sometimes called “boomerang” employment for obvious reasons, and it is something that many people are far from keen to do. Many people express the view that you should never go back to a previous employer. Equally, some employers have a policy agains...
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How to Brainstorm Successfully in Meetings
Brainstorming ideas can be a great way to flesh them out and fully develop them; the most important thing you can do is share the undertaking with others. This means taking the big step and sharing your new ideas with others for them to pick over, question and analyse. Being able to do this confid...
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How to Tell the Boss You’re Moving On
It can be challenging to figure out how to tell your current boss that you are moving on to pastures new and leaving your current job behind. How you do this will largely depend on the circumstances involved in your decision to leave.
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Is it Time for a Mid-Year Recalibration?
When we get to the mid-point of the year, it can be tempting to look at how we are getting on compared to the goals we set at the start of the year. This is as true regarding progress in the workplace as in the personal sphere. Even if your goal was just to tread water and remain where you are for a...
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How to Deal with a Difficult Boss
It is something that most people have experienced at one time or another, a difficult boss who makes them feel undervalued, pressured or micromanaged. Even though it is a common experience, it is not one that is talked about all that often outside of workplaces, so it can be difficult to gauge how t...
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How to Respond to Pay Rise Requests in 2023
Unlike in many previous years, there are some unique circumstances that have made this year extremely hard for many people. The cost of living crisis is seeing inflation at a level that is making many people in full-time employment struggle to make ends meet. A lot of employees are therefore turning...
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How Promoting a Healthy Lifestyle can Lift the Workplace
When thinking about their lifestyle, many workers cite their jobs as being one of the main impediments to being able to maintain a healthy exercise routine. If you are able to move work from being part of the problem to part of the solution, this will have an excellent effect on workplace morale as...
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How to Attract and Retain Millennial Employees
The age group we refer to as “Millennials” were born in the 80s or 90s, so they are currently in their late 20s to early 40s. This particular cohort of workers has a very different outlook on work from “Generation X” that immediately preceded them. Millennials now make up the largest of the “genera...
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Do Soft Skills Make a Difference When Getting Hired?
Many different factors can affect your chances of success when applying for a job. You may be over or under-qualified for the post, you may lack experience, or you may not have done very well when writing your CV. One of the areas that can make a real difference when trying to prove that you have wh...
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Why It’s Important to Separate Work and Home Life
Since the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic, more people than ever before have been able to work from home or fully remotely and this can present many of its own challenges. One of the largest of these is how to draw a distinction between work and home life when the physical spaces that they are occup...
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What does a Work Appraisal Entail?
It is understandable that so many employees approach the annual appraisal meeting with a hint of trepidation. If you haven’t managed to hit a particular target in your key performance indicators, this is almost certain to be when it is brought up and addressed. Even employees who are normally quite ...
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Pros and Cons of Temporary Vs Permanent Jobs
In an era where there is a lot of volatility in the jobs market and many people are seeking the maximum job security possible, many others are taking on temporary jobs and entering the gig economy instead, with short-term contracts. We will take a look at the pros and cons of temporary vs permanent ...
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How to Avoid Employee Burnout
Employee burnout is a genuine problem in the modern workplace, with some surveys putting the number of UK adults who have suffered from it as high as 70%. The affected employee may not immediately identify it as burnout, as they aren’t sure precisely what is happening to them. Burnout can manifest ...
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Is Remote Onboarding Feasible in 2023?
There were huge strides toward remote working during the pandemic, and many of these trends have continued into the post-pandemic period. One of the things that recruiters and employers have been looking at is how best to integrate remote onboarding into the company processes. Several steps can be...
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Top Tips for Unlocking the Full Potential of Employees
Talented employees can take an organisation to the next level, but sometimes, learning how best to harness these talents can be a challenge in itself. It is all very well recruiting the best people that you can find, but if you are unable to get them firing on all cylinders when working with you, it...
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Planning Your Next Steps After Job Rejection
It can be difficult to pick yourself up again and keep going when you fail to get the job you had your heart set on, but it is essential to remember that this is just a temporary setback. You will find something else soon, and there is every chance it will be better than the job you were passed over...
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How to Apply for Jobs as a School Leaver
Knowing which direction to go in can be challenging if you are just leaving school. Whether you are looking for a job for your gap year before University or have left school with just a few qualifications, getting a job without having much experience can be difficult. We look at how best to increase...
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