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We can have a dramatic impact on people’s lives with simple, small and cost-free changes

Workplace Insight

London, the crouching monster, like every other monster has to breathe, and breathe it does in its own obscure, malignant way. The men and women imagine they are going into London and coming out again more or less of their own free will, but the crouching monster sees all and knows better. The business districts.

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The scale of the problem for the workplace

Workplace Insight

There is a typically telling and intelligent Pixar moment in the film A Bug’s Life in which an already well-lubricated mosquito goes up to a bar and orders a ‘Bloody Mary, O Positive’ The barman plonks a droplet of blood down on the bar. West makes the same point about cities which scale up in a super-linear way.

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The allure of workplace b t

Workplace Insight

This is a particularly insidious form of misinformation because while the proclamations of anti-vaxxers, flat-earthers and climate sceptics are easily disprovable to anybody with an ounce of interest in facts, a laundered idea can be widely accepted as true when it is overly simplistic, shaky in some other way or even complete b t.

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Happy (belated) New Year!

ProAssisting Blog

ProAssisting came into being last year and this year our goal is to expand upon the great successes we’ve had so far… Just to re-cap, in addition to becoming a featured writer for Monster’s AdminSecret , we had a very robust beta testing period thanks to their community of assistants who put our training through its paces.

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Retained Search vs Contingency Recruiting: Which One Should You Choose?

Recruit CRM

Deconstructing Retained Search Retained search is a type of recruitment model where companies themselves approach the search agency to help them fill up a vacancy. Here, a recruiter will be looking for candidates to fill up higher-level job positions like CEOs, Vice Presidents, CTOs, CXOs, CMOs etc.

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Retained Search: The Ultimate 6-Stage Guide For Agency Recruiters

Recruit CRM

Attracting the right form of talent isn't a piece of cake (though it may sound like one), especially when you're looking forward to hiring for specific niche roles. They are hired especially to fill up senior or executive positions, which is why they get to work very closely with the senior managers and officers of the company.

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Toxic! How to End Workplace Bullying Now by Bonnie Low-Kramen

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Targets and witnesses to workplace bullying call them unhinged psychopaths, monsters, and devils wearing designer clothes. Spoiler: Unlike in the popular movie “Nine to Five,” the solution is not found in stringing up the bully and holding him hostage. This means speaking up to the bully directly, calmly, and without apology.

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