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10/03/2014
Is face-to-face communication getting overlooked or left behind in the rush to join the digital revolution? In the current edition of InsideOut (the online magazine for IoIC members), Nikki Griffiths of Wolf Comms argues that internal communicators are all in such a rush to adopt the latest whizzy digital channel or social media platform that…
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03/03/2014
“A job for life? No Thanks!”, says professionals today as leading accountants, Easy Accountancy reveals that freelancing has never been so popular. The claim is backed up the latest ONS statistics over the last four years that have seen 30,000 more people working for themselves (source: www.ons.gov.uk) Women are more likely than men to take…
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24/02/2014
Only 1 in 10 adults feel secure in their job as a result of the recovering economy, according to a new report by Legal&General. Of the 2,600 adult workers polled as part of the Job Security Index, 37% claimed the current economic climate made them feel more negatively about their job security. Older workers were…
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17/02/2014
Roffey Park’s Management Agenda survey shows HR professionals struggling to meet their organisations’ demand for change. HR professionals are overwhelmed by the change they have to manage and seldom achieve the desired result, according to the Roffey Park institute. In its survey of more than 1,800 managers, seen exclusively by HR magazine, 77% of HR…
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10/02/2014
One quarter of us is addicted to social media, according to a poll by ITV show Daybreak. The early morning entertainment show discovered that one in four of us admit to compulsively checking social media sites like Facebook and Twitter. Just under half prefer to use social media rather than their phones to stay in…
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03/02/2014
The following blog post is written by Mark Ellis of Culture Transform …I still hesitate to bring up gamification with clients though (a word still so new it keeps switching to ramification in this spell check – hmmmm…..) because the implications of the phrase hint towards the frivolous. The definition above doesn’t help a great…
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27/01/2014
Comment from Social-Hire I get asked about this issue as much as any other–and the questions come from both sides. Do I have a problem if I’ve moved around every other year or so? OR . . . Do I have a problem if I’ve stayed… http://www.social-hire.com/
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23/12/2013
Busy, on-the-go jobseekers are going mobile, driving a 48 per cent increase in the number of job searches from mobile devices. New research from totaljobs.com has revealed that 34 per cent of visits to its website now come from people using their smartphone or tablet – up from 23 per cent in October 2012. http://www.onrec.com/news/news-archive/48-cent-rise-in-mobile-jobseekers
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16/12/2013
LinkedIn has released its annual list of the top ten overused buzzwords. According to the study, which focused on English-language profiles worldwide, “responsible” was the most common word used by people to market themselves. The study takes into account the most common labels used by the 259million people across 14 countries on the professional networking…
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09/12/2013
Proportion of job seekers using incorrect information at its highest level in years. An increasing number of job applications contain a lie or false information according to new research. HireRight, a candidate due diligence company, found in its Candidate Health Check study that nearly two-thirds (63%) of applicants provide incorrect information to potential employers, in…
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