How eLearning Benefits Recruiters

eLearning is gaining increased usefulness across a wide range of industries. According to eLearning statistics, the value of the global eLearning market should hit $406 billion by the year 2024. Over 77% of US employers are currently using online learning. And more than 51% of them believe that conducting eLearning courses can help improve employee capacity and productivity. A number of eLearning platforms exist to ease the task for recruiters. The top ones on the list are Udemy and Skillshare. Read more

What recruiters need to know about IR35

What recruiters need to know about IR35

IR35 will see off-payroll rules extended to the private sector next year. So what do recruiters actually need to know about the UK tax legislation, designed to help combat tax avoidance?

James Foster, the Senior Commercial Manager at Optionis Group and holding company for SJD Accountancy, explains the key factors to keep in mind.

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5 Digital Marketing Channels to Promote Your Recruitment Agency

5 Digital Marketing Channels to Promote Your Recruitment Agency

As the digital age continues to break new boundaries and completely change the way consumers and users operate, company owners and businesses have to have the initiative to change and adapt with it.

Recruitment agencies are no different. There is a necessity to grow alongside each industry (or industries) your agency serves. Even your marketing has to go digital, as there becomes a need to stand out from all the noise of thousands of recruitment agencies trying to attract local customers attention.

Here’s 5 short and sweet actionable tips that your agency can apply today for your job postings (and your company!) to get noticed

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How HR Professionals Can Help Shape the Future Workforce

How HR Professionals Can Help Shape the Future Workforce

Technological innovation is driving ongoing change that has impacted the way companies operate and employees work. People are working from home in record numbers. Laptop computers, Skype and mobile devices makes this type of arrangement more feasible than ever before.

While the dizzying speed of change has left management teams scratching their heads about how best to manage, top talent has become increasingly enamored with flexible work schedules and the prospect of working from home.

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How to Use Engagement Programs to Attract Employees

How to Use Engagement Programs to Attract Employees

Employee engagement is a common concept in human resource but rarely understood. Almost every employer recognizes the need to keep the employees satisfied for them to be more productive.

The best way to achieve this while at the same time attract and retain employees is through engagement. It involves maintaining respect, transparency and aligning policies with the objectives that address employee issues. When done right, engagement motivates employees to become more fruitful and loyal.

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How to Be an Emotionally Intelligent Leader in the Workplace

How to Be an Emotionally Intelligent Leader in the Workplace

Some people are book-smart, some are street-smart, and some are emotionally intelligent. While any business leader would benefit from possessing these qualities, emotional intelligence (EQ) in particular is crucial to establishing a company culture where everybody gets along.

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3 Major Trends that Will Shape Recruitment in the Future

3 Major Trends that Will Shape Recruitment in the Future

We live in an exciting age and perhaps the most interesting thing about it is that this is just the start. We are, of course, talking about the stupendous technological advances we have seen over the last two decades – emergence of the internet, exploding computational powers of average computers, breakthroughs in machine learning, data analytics and others, all of which are changing the way people work and seek work.

These breakthroughs have also resulted in some other trends that might affect the recruitment industry and the goal of this article is to review to just what extent they might influence how recruitment will be done in the future.

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How To Get Your Message Across

How To Get Your Message Across

Today, we are going to be talking about how to make an extra special connection; how to communicate more effectively – that’s whether you’re selling, or leading, or presenting, or just in your life.

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How to set the compensation structure for your startup

How to set the compensation structure for your startup

Striking a compensation structure is usually the last thing on any founder’s mind. But just like the exercise regime that you keep putting off, it will only slowly manifest into an enormous problem in the future.

And I am not talking about anything complicated. This isn’t going to be a 10-levels, multi grids table with complex formulas that will take a rocket scientist to understand.

It is a simple framework to provide the right foundation that will compliment your scaling journey.

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New Year Resolutions

Well, mine lasted 10 days (No wine or chocolate during the week) then something happened, can’t remember what and before I knew it I had a glass of something nice in my hand.

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