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Facebook’s status update – Best place to work in 2013

Facebook’s status update – Best place to work in 2013

Employees have voted Facebook as the Best place to work for in 2013 as per Employee’s Choice Award. The survey was conducted by Glassdoor using feedback that employees voluntarily and anonymously shared about their work experiences throughout the past year. Check out the list to see who made it to the Top 50 list.

I have been researching a lot about companies and their work culture to know what makes their employees feel excited to get to work everyday. And I must say, Glassdoor reviews help us understand exactly this from the people who work in these companies. (more…)

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Make sure they remember you

Make sure they remember you

You might have seen the movie ‘The Hunger Games’. If no then you definitely should. If yes, then you would remember these words “This is the time to show them everything! Make sure they remember you!”! When Katnis Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) asked her coach Haymitch Abernathy (Woody Harrelson) for advice on how to get the attention of sponsors who can help her survive during the battle for life!

Most often I see job candidates in Katnis’s shoes. It is a talent war out there! Between recruiters trying to find a right candiate for their Organization and position and job candidates trying to get the job that they have been waiting for! (more…)

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Top 10 HR people you need to follow in Social HR!

Top 10 HR people you need to follow in Social HR!

Throughout my blogging journey I have met a lot of amazing HR minds & experts and I have contributed my write ups to a few of them as well! And this is the first time I am honored to introduce a guest post from a friend of mine, who I met on Twitter, with interesting perspectives and views – Lexie Forman-Ortiz! So let us get ready for some interesting insights from her! Here we go!

Lately, we hear a lot about social recruiting. Twitter, arguably more than any other social network, is an invaluable tool at the intersection of social media and HR. Twitter has over 140,000,000 active users and there are 340,000,000 Tweets sent per day.

With so much content, and transparency Twitter’s micro-blogging community has created an information center where people with the same interests can hold conversations that would have never been possible before. (more…)

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Presenting your Job Description & Company Culture graphically pays off

Presenting your Job Description & Company Culture graphically pays off

You might have noticed the Work at Work cartoon series at my blog. Well, let me tell you why did I start it in the first place. I was doing a study about my Facebook likes and shares and I noticed my readers share pictures more than interesting and helpful articles. It is a general study that I did in which I found that the tendency of sharing pictures over written articles is 60% more. So I made my own cartoons quoting funny incidents at office to entertain my audience or sometimes to probe different scenarios. Results! More shares, message spreads and better visibility.

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Christmas Fun Activities at Office

Christmas Fun Activities at Office

It’s Christmas time and I know most of you would be planning some festivities and employee fun get together at office!

We all know that this is one of the most pleasant times, with all the happiness and joy, when we would want to be around our family, friends & beloved ones and most importantly thankful for everything we have! So what else could be a better occasion than this time to have a fun activity involving family members of employees at work? Well this is exactly what Archon Group did! (more…)

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Employers hire your Personality

Employers hire your Personality

If your cell phone rings during a job interview you are going to make your interviewer angry! But what if your mobile phone has it’s ring tone set to the sound of your dogs barking and were to ring during the interview. It can be nerve wrecking and you might even regret keeping that ring tone of your lovely dog barking! Right? But it might give the interviewer a glimpse into your personality. (more…)

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5 Online communities you need to check out

5 Online communities you need to check out

If you are into social media you might have already identified your niche site where you connect, share and engage with a group of professionals online and offline. Be it LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter or any other. And you might have your own favorite groups where you can’t wait to discuss various topics related to your profession. Yes, I am talking about online communities. (more…)

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Make Employees your Social Brand Ambassadors!

Make Employees your Social Brand Ambassadors!

Do you think people update their LinkedIn profile only because they are actively searching for jobs?

There is always this misperception and people often fear to update their LinkedIn profile in the assumption that their employers will think that they are looking for another job! Actually this was his first response when I told my husband and his friends to update their LinkedIn profile! They felt they don’t need to since they are not searching for jobs!

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Fear kills your creativity!

Fear kills your creativity!

Hope you all had a blast this past holiday weekend! I had an awesome time with all sorts of fun activities with bowling, karaoke party, a crazy drive to the Natural Bridge at Virginia and the most amazing part of all was the time spent painting with my 4 year old naughty niece that had added more colors to my Thanksgiving celebrations! And this is one of her creations- and I call it ‘The beauty of little mind’. (more…)

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