5 Key Takeaways from the Dublin Web Summit

5 Key Takeaways from the Dublin Web Summit

  • November 18, 2014
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Talentsquare had the opportunity to attend the Web Summit 2014 in Ireland, Europe’s largest tech event with 20,000+ attendees. This massive event brings not only attendees but also thousands of startups and several hundreds of journalists and investors. For many, the experience was overwhelming due to the large amount of people and reduced time to […]

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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

Book Summary: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team

  • November 7, 2014
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The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, by Patrick Lencioni, published by Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated.   Patrick Lencioni is an American writer of books on business management, particularly in relation to team management. He is best known as the author of The Five Dysfunctions of a Team. In addition, he is the founder and […]

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CROWDRECRUITING

Crowdrecruitment: What if We Were Recruiting Collaboratively?

  • October 29, 2014
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On October 14th, I had the chance to attend #rmsconf in Paris. It is one of the biggest conferences about recruitment innovation and employer branding in Europe. This year the core focus was this simple question: How will we hire in 2025? After a scary / exciting introduction by Laurent Alexandre (@dr_l_alexandre), Surgeon-urologist, Founder of […]

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How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

Book Summary: How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be

  • October 21, 2014
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How to Get from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be – The 25 Principles of Success, by Jack Canfield Jack Canfield is an American author and management expert. He is a founding member of the Transformational Leadership Council. He wrote this book in 2005, and is also co-author of the best-selling book series Chicken Soup for […]

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The Future of HR

The Future of HR: Looking at the next 10 years

  • October 15, 2014
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HR has been evolving a lot as a function in the last couple of years. The war for talent has been increasing, and as a consequence organizations are looking at HR more prominently than before. A lot of the future of HR will be decided by the investment of top leaders in some of the […]

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Lessons to Learn From Startups

Lessons to Learn from Startups

I’ve always found that the first step of overcoming fear is figuring out exactly what you’re afraid of. – Richard Branson A couple of weeks ago, we interviewed Shamma Raghib (@SDstartupdiary), Innovation Manager at Startups.be and Co-Organiser of Startup Weekend Leuven (if you’d like to know how she came to organise Startup Weekends, you can chek out […]

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5 Tips to Win the Battle for Labor Customers

5 Tips to Win the Battle for the Labor Customer

  • September 24, 2014
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This article was originally published on LinkedIn, here. The war for talent is intensifying as the exit of baby-boomers hits the job markets. Having critical talent to manage operations and fuel growth becomes a key differentiator for successful organizations; finding the right talent and building an engaged workforce is as critical and challenging as finding, […]

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Adelina’s Talentsquare Survival Kit

Adelina’s Talentsquare Survival Kit

  • September 17, 2014
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As a proud survivor of more than one year at Talentsquare, I can say I have some office culture wisdom to share, which will shed some light on the inner workings of our great ecosystem. In order to thrive in this kind of environment, here are some key things you might need to consider. Coffee […]

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Workplace Happiness: Does It Exist?

  • September 10, 2014
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There’s an increasing trend of connecting employee performance with workplace happiness. Recent examples can be seen by the lifestyle promoted by companies such as Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, Square and many others, where they heavily promote a great office culture, give lots of perks and pay attention to small details that can increase the happiness level of […]

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Visual Marketing

Go2NextLevels Visual Marketing Summerschool – Event

Last week, Quentin Mathoux (@quentinmathoux) and myself left Talentsquare’s office environment for a day of learning. We attended Go2NextLevels’ Visual Marketing summer school, organised by Christelle “HR2.0 unicorn” Letist (@cltst), and Thierry “visual stormtrooper” Croix (@thierrycrx). And here’s how it went. Go2NextLevels Visual Marketing Summerschool The event itself was at the Dolce hotel in La […]

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