Category: HR Infographics

Gardeners Happiest; Bankers, HR Least Happy at Work [Infographic]

City and Guilds of London Institute

Are you happy at work?

If you are a florist or gardener, you just may be in the happiest of all professions.

UK-based career site City & Guilds released this infographic of their 2012 Career Happiness Index, offering wide-ranging insights into what people regard as the most significant factors for joy at work.

Florists and gardeners were at the top; followed closely by hairdressers/beauticians, plumbers, water workers, and marketers. Bank workers, IT professionals and human resources staff are the least happy.

Most workers surveyed said the most notable feature of a job is feeling recognized and appreciated. I n this group, florists felt this way the strongest while bankers felt least appreciated and recognized.

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Tips on Building a Small Business Brand Online [Infographic]

 

There is an ebb and flow in business, with new products and services regularly replacing old ones. However, brands are what offer the stability that goes beyond new product launches and advertising campaigns.

Brands are what consumers use to evaluate their purchasing decisions, as well as how they determine the quality of a product. The Internet is the largest platform where new brands are built.

This is not only true for Internet giants like  and , but brick-and-mortar brands, as well.

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SMB Hiring: A Gameplan for Growth [Infographic]

Small Business GameplanFollowing the lead of Black Friday and Cyber Monday—two of the busiest shopping days of the holiday season—comes “Small Business Saturday.”

The day after Black Friday is now reserved for those who shun the big box retailers, preferring use local merchants to complete their Christmas lists. This new shopping milestone is designed to promote the range of smaller businesses, which tend to be forgotten during the post-Thanksgiving shopping rush.

In a survey by Paychex, a preponderance of small businesses expects either a stable or moderately increased hiring level for the end of 2012. Technology is also taking a larger role, where the trend is towards more SMBs adapting mobile and social media in the next year.

Coupled with the rise in talent management software—including cloud-based services geared towards the SMB market—the presentation of Small Business Saturday shows willingness for SMBs to embrace new strategies as a way to survive the competitive, tech-savvy retail environment.

This newly released infographic shows that as we approach 2013, smaller retailers are expected adopt these new tools at a higher rate—or at least remain constant.

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Sources of Online Job Traffic [Infographic]

Where does online job traffic come from?As a hiring tool, the internet has all but killed newspaper classifieds. Will social media do the same thing to online job boards?

TribeHR tracked one case study—a developer job that was recently posted. They examined how people arrived at the job post, as well as how long they stay on the post and whether they applied or not.

This infographic outlines the results TribeHR study, and can be useful for anyone looking to recruit staff, predict the future trends in human resources, employ the latest innovations to their recruiting process, or have a better social media presence—at all levels of the organization.

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The Value of Employee Referrals [Infographic]

The Cost (Savings) of Employee ReferralsAfter a lengthy job search, you may have learned the indispensable principle of hiring—it truly is who you know. Networking with professional contacts is essential for job seekers in any business.

High unemployment has led to a business environment where a larger number of candidates are applying for every open position.

With that in mind, employee referrals are becoming the way recruiters, hiring managers and human resources professionals choose the right candidate for the job.

It is no surprise that confidence in hiring is higher when the prospective employee is recommended by someone already working at the company. This infographic by Jobvite shows the true value of employee referrals—becoming a valuable part of an effective hiring strategy.

Interestingly, on average only seven percent of a company’s applicants come from employee referrals, yet 40 percent of hires are made from them.

Compare that to 21 percent of people from employment site that are hired (and those sites account for 32 percent of applications) while just 15 percent of job board applicants are hired (job boards account for 43 percent of the applicant pool).

Employee referrals offer another benefit—they speed up the hiring process. Consider the average number of days until candidates start work:

  • Referrals: 29 days
  • Job board: 39 days
  • Career site: 55 days

What’s more, employee referrals often stay with the company longer. After three years, nearly half of referrals (47 percent) are still with their company. In contrast, after three years, only 39 percent of career site applicants and 14 percent of job board applicants remain.

The employee referring new people also do well, with 69 percent of companies saying they offer bonuses to employees who make a successful referral.

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