9March
“If you lose money for the firm, I will be forgiving. If you lose reputation, I will be ruthless.” Warren Buffett’s words of warning set the scene nicely for a blog on employer branding, a very current buzzword in HR circles. Employer branding is how organisations...
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16July
As any employer will attest, there has been a power shift in the labour market in recent years. How acute that change is will depend on the sector you inhabit, but fundamentally we are in an environment where quite often the candidate, not the employer. is king. The...
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26March
The provocative headline is adapted from the title of the book (and lecture in Dublin last year) “Why should anyone work here?” by Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones of London Business School. The book draws on their research of many well-known firms in the quest for the...
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31March
Most Irish employers will remember the dizzying heights of the tiger era, when the recruitment of developers and other IT specialists was a nigh-on impossible task. It wasn’t that companies couldn’t find people with the right qualifications. It wasn’t that they...
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