work
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Tips For Effective Employer Branding Strategies
When you start working on your employer branding strategy, first you have to think about your own needs. Are there certain areas where you need a boost? Do you feel your current workers are not giving you their best? How do you plan to attract the best talent to your company? Good employer branding strategy can help you recruit, retain, and motivate people. Companies with a positive image find it easier to get skilled staff. Also, they have a higher percentage of employee retention. By being a desirable employer, you can even offer lower wages than competitors. But you must work on a better organizational climate, which people much appreciate.…
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A career in childcare with The Co-operative Childcare
On Friday I spent an interesting morning as the guest of The Co-Operative Childcare at their Wellington Road nursery. The idea was to get a feel for how the nursery operated, and to find out about the role of the nursery manager and practitioners, and just how diverse, interesting and ultimately rewarding this career path can be. This post is full of information about The Co-operative Childcare, and why a career with children is well worth consideration. If you are interested in a career working with children, whether it be in teaching, play work or in a nursery setting, you can find more information about the qualifications you may need…
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Working from Home – Create A Working Space
Most people would find the idea of working from home a complete dream. It gives you flexibility when it comes to the working day, there’s no stressful commute, sitting stuck for what seems like hours trying to make your way into the city, and, if you so want it, every day can be a pj day – no-one is actually going to see what you are working in. Recent research has claimed that remote workers can be up to 13% more productive than their office based counterparts, it seems that it is no longer frowned upon to fit your work around your family – to be that little more flexible.…
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Tips for your job interview
A job interview can be one of the most nerve wracking experiences of your life. It doesn’t really matter if it is for your dream job, or just a stop gap, the interview will have so much riding on it that you can’t help but be nervous and worried about saying the wrong thing. TMI Resourcing is currently running a campaign looking at key tips for your job interview and have asked me to come up with some of my key tips. I can look at this from both angles, both as an ex employer who conducted many interviews, and from the point of view of being interviewed. Here are some…
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Organising Your Home, Office And Life
In our current busy and overcrowded lives, we are often forced to organise ourselves in order to multi task. For Mom’s and dad’s this can be even more difficult, as not only do we have to organise and plan our own lives, but we need to look after the lives and social calendars of our children too. Juggling work, family and leisure can be exhausting – in an average week my child will have after school clubs, football matches and training, as well as spelling tests that have to be revised for, whilst I am trying to manage deadlines, remember important dates and birthdays, and currently cope with hospital and…
