Following my last blog post “Employers, what we want from a job board?” I thought this may be of use to help you find the best job websites for employers. For a job board to be effective and deliver the best results for you and your business, it must attract the most relevant jobseekers looking for jobs like yours and employers like you.
We want to fill our job vacancies, quickly, and with the best candidates! It’s really that simple. Why then is it that we have such problems finding the right job sites to advertise on? Why even once we’ve made a decision do we still tend to feel; unsure of whether we’ll get any applications, unsure if we will attract relevant applications - OR unsure if we are actually getting value for money!
Many of us have experienced bullying on one level or another - however people don’t expect to endure bullying once they’ve left the schoolyard and are firmly planted as adults in the workplace progressing their careers. The ugly truth (and often unaddressed truth) is that workplace bullies are as common as their younger playground counterparts.
It might seem like clocking crazy amounts of hours at the office at the expense of family - even children - for weeks on end is the only way to get ahead in a flailing economy, but experts say workaholics are harming themselves more than progressing their careers.
Today’s IQ tests are largely discredited as a true mark of intelligence, as they don’t measure drive, application or emotional intelligence – which are aspects of a person’s ability to perform. A large body of research over the years has shown that IQ indicates a person’s ability to think in complex and abstract terms and to learn quickly. In terms of a job, however, IQ is a good indicator of how well an employee will perform (you can take the test here).
Best-selling author Karen Salmansohn - who wrote The Bounce Back Book: How to Thrive in the Face of Uncertainty, Setbacks and Losses - gave Businessweek a useful analogy on how to cope with sudden retrenchments or negative developments at work that may be impacting on your productivity.
In these stormy economic times, many people have been cast out into a lonely unemployed ocean. While every person’s experience of being jobless differs, here are a few notes on what not to do with your CV and the task of pitching your personality well:
Stress is a major problem encountered by all sectors of the work force. There is not a single field or rung on the corporate ladder that can claim to be absolutely stress-free; whether you’re picking tea in India or running a Fortune 500 company, it’s inevitable that you will experience a few sleepless nights because of work.
By the end of the year the UK will be extending maternity leave to 12 months (statutory maternity pay will extended to 39 wks) from the current 9months. Expecting mums get 90% usual salary for 6 weeks & then on a reduced rate for another 33 weeks at max of £112.75/week. Flexible working hours will be extended till the youngest offspring has reached 16.
In many countries (especially those experiencing slowing economic climates) employers are seeking more & more ways in which to gain increasing value out of their companies & businesses. Additionally there is an increasing amount of student labour ripe for exploitation.