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Is your company culture suffering during remote life? Here are a few tips to help you keep your culture alive and well while your employees work from home. "Having a great company culture has numerous benefits from increased employee engagement to attracting new talent. In a world of remote work, however, it can be challenging to maintain a strong culture when no one is together. Much of a company’s culture relies on people being able to interact and build a shared community as a team. But when everyone has to keep their distance, how do you create that sense of vision and belonging? Luckily, there are a few things you can do to keep company culture alive even when the team isn’t together." Read more here: https://bit.ly/3fKvMOe

If you work in the talent industry, we’re inviting you to participate in McQuaig’s new global talent survey! Share your insights about talent management and in return you’ll receive a detailed report outlining how talent professionals across the globe are handling similar issues. Make sure your voice is heard by participating now. Click below to get started. Take the survey: https://bit.ly/3hIRvZB

Could you be making mistakes in your interviews without realizing it? Learn about 5 common interview mistakes to avoid next time you hire. "The interview is the backbone of the hiring process. It’s usually the first chance employers get to speak with candidates face-to-face (or through a screen) and contributes a large portion of the information hiring managers use to make their final decisions. Interviews can make or break a candidate so it’s important to get them right. But it’s not just the candidates who need to worry about interviewing properly. Hiring teams can inadvertently cost themselves strong employees by making a few common interviewing mistakes. Next time you hire, what pitfalls should you avoid as you head into your interview rounds?" https://bit.ly/3u75cEj

New eBook alert! Assessments can be useful even after you make a hiring decision. If you're managing a team then check out these helpful strategies for using assessments to improve interpersonal understanding between employees. Strengthen your working relationships by learning more about who your colleagues really are. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3yr6mOo

Don't let distance derail your employees. Check out these strategies to improve communication on remote teams. "How successfully does your team communicate in our remote world? Many companies are finding there are numerous benefits to remote work, but one downside of the change is certainly how often, and how well, we communicate with each other. Gone are the days when you could drop by a colleague’s desk for a quick chat. Instead, many of us work alone and only connect with others through emails and video calls. If your remote team is growing quieter, then try some of these ideas to improve team communication and get everyone back on track." https://bit.ly/3weNBfd

Is your team growing disconnected? Try these strategies used by highly engaged teams. "What makes a team engaged? Employee disengagement is a growing problem in the world of work and one that can be costly for companies, particularly if it leads to high turnover. Having everyone working apart and at a distance isn’t helping matters either. Remote work can be beneficial for some tasks but it makes collaboration and brainstorming harder. If you’re running a team or department where team members are in their individual homes, what can you do to bring them together as an engaged unit? There is no one size fits all answer as to how to keep your particular group of employees motivated but if we look at the habits and strategies employed by other successful teams, some key trends emerge." https://bit.ly/2NpBGu5

Helping your team stay connected is a challenge at the best of times, but what can do you when everyone is remote? Check out these 8 strategies to help improve virtual collaboration and communication even when your team can't be together. Learn more: https://bit.ly/2NyU3N0

If quality candidates aren't being attracted by your recruitment process, the answer may lie in how you're approaching candidate experience. "How you treat candidates during a typical hiring process can have long-ranging impacts on both your hiring success and your employer brand. If there’s one thing we know, it’s that candidates talk to others in their network. In the very connected digital world we’re all working in, what candidates say can help or hurt your next recruitm...ent search. Especially right now, candidates are being very vocal about how companies have adapted to the pandemic and what sort of interview experience they’re able to offer. In order to stay on the right side of those kinds of conversations, it’s worth considering your own candidate experience approach and whether it can be updated to better support hiring in a remote environment." https://bit.ly/37jTJZu

How much do you know about personality assessments? Check out our guide to selecting the best assessment to meet your needs when you want to account for personality in your hiring process. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3dgbfSg

What can we learn from common hiring challenges to make the hiring process run more smoothly? "There are many moving pieces to consider anytime you need to hire. Whether you’re doing it in person or online, it isn’t always a quick or easy process and sometimes you may run into common hiring problems. How you handle those problems can be the difference between a good hiring process and a great one. When you lose a candidate, for example, do you shrug your shoulders and move o...n? Or do you take a real look at how you hire and figure out where hidden traps might lie that are costing you great candidates? Understanding the reasons behind some of the most common hiring problems can teach you a lot about your own approach to recruiting. Learning those lessons can help ensure next time you hire, you land the best candidate for the role." https://bit.ly/3tYCcQh