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The Watercooler Blog is full of workplace tips and trends related to employee retention, engagement, interviewing and more. The Watercooler is frequently refilled, so gather ‘round often.

Use Your Social Media Pages to Attract Candidates

To attract the best talent on the market, you need to sell your company. And recruitment is a two-way street. As A-list candidates check out your employer brand, social media typically is their first point of contact. In a recent Jobvite survey of 1,800 recruiting and HR pros, 93 percent of respondents said they use [...] Read More

What Management Tips Can We Learn from Cirque Du Soleil

Cirque du Soleil has been a highlight of the Las Vegas Strip for more than 20 years. In total, more than 160 million people have seen the company’s shows since it was founded in 1984 — and nearly 15 million in 2015 alone. Most people think of Cirque as an incredibly talented group of performers, [...] Read More

Let Your Cookie-Cutter Company Culture Crumble

You may well know and believe that company culture can have a strong impact on workers, including their satisfaction with the job, which can have a significant ripple effect (turnover, recommending the company to others, etc.). When you look at really successful companies such as Google and Zappos and their "unconventional" culture, you may feel tempted [...] Read More

Fresh Ways to Attract Leading Talent

In some ways, hiring may feel like the NFL draft. Each year, there’s a relatively finite group of athletes to choose from, and certain teams have certain needs; a few need a quarterback, some need quality defensemen, others need offensive tackles. So those teams scout out the top candidates for each position and do what they can to make [...] Read More