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Category: Motivation, Behaviour

Feel like a slave to your career?

Do you feel like a slave to your career? And if so, what could you do to free yourself?

effective staff retention

Effective staff retention: why personalisation is the key

Staff retention is the biggest issue at board level – at least that’s what I’m hearing every day from my clients in businesses both large and small. With the UK facing a skills shortage, too many companies are chasing too few employees, and as a result, many tell me they’re struggling to attract the right…
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recruiting potential

Recruiting Rough Diamonds: Where the value (and talent) really is

We are in a tough hiring market in the UK and the way we recruit is being seriously shaken up. Employers should be focusing on recruiting potential.

Quality not quantity: It’s not just the job that counts.

The past year has allowed us all to revaluate a lot of things. From our jobs, to our home lives and hobbies, to our work-life balance. And as a result, I’m seeing a real shift in the way people think about work. No longer is having a job what’s important – we’re thinking more about…
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Cracking the code to recruiting and retaining top performers

How to tap into the power of words and language (the LAB Profile) in order to streamline and increase the success rates of recruiting and retaining.

Hiring for skills and firing for attitude. The approach to recruitment is all wrong…

When you think of a job advert, it’s usually skills based. Only a small section of the usual job advert is given to describing a candidate’s attitude or approach to work. Yet this is usually the most important part of hiring!

Who are you really hiring? Emotional intelligence vs. skills

The typical job interview process fixates on ensuring that new hires are technically competent. Only 11% of respondents in the study cited technical competence (or a lack thereof) as the reason for an employee leaving.

Our haphazard approach to recruitment is leaving candidates (and recruiting managers) confused…

It seems as though every month there’s a new approach to recruiting. The beer test, video interviews, assignments… candidates never know what to expect. These various approaches are often driven by recruiting managers to find the people they need – but leave everyone else in the process confused and unsure in which direction to go……
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How To Recruit Accurately and Avoid Bad Hires

As a recruitment and retention coach, clients often come to me having experienced a recruitment failure. In fact, 85% of HR decision makers admit that their organisations have made recruitment mistakes.

Job advert not attracting right candidates? The Power of Words

Words have power. They have the power to make or break someone’s career or send your business down the pan. When writing a job advert, it’s important to consider the long term.