Go beyond diversity…
02 April 2025
How Employer Branding, Values and Purpose can fill the DE&I gap for Big Law Firms. For a long time now, law firms have made a big play to show the diversity of their teams – or at the very least the ambition of their diversity activity. Has it made a material difference? There seems to […]
A Graduate’s Guide To The Sustainability Job Search
26 March 2025
Imagine this, you have just graduated after three challenging yet rewarding years at university, ready and eager to take on the working world. You are ready to hang up the textbooks, late night studying, the tracksuits and Ugg boots in exchange for early morning commutes, loafers and smart casual. You have been told at school […]
Employee Xperience Expo 2025
27 February 2025
Like salmons swimming upstream, flocks of employer brand practitioners and internal communicators descended on the ExCel venue for this year’s Employee Xperience Expo! Employee experience can mean a million different things, sometimes within the same organisation, it was a great opportunity to think strategically about how to improve retention, efficiency, and engagement and learn from […]
Three steps to avoid death by recruitment black box
10 December 2024
In Talent Acquisition, the focus is almost always on the candidate/recruiter relationship. But before we even get there, there is another relationship which needs tending to – the recruiter and hiring manager relationship. Like a clownfish and an anemone, recruiters and hiring managers need each other, but (to be brutally honest) it’s often the hiring […]
Simple solutions for complex tech: Simply Expo 2024 Write-Up
21 November 2024
For communicators, the challenges that come with constant change can seem dense and overwhelming. But even when the technology gets more complicated, the most effective strategies were still the simplest ones. As the first snow of the season began to fall, team 106 attended Simply Expo 2024, hosted at etc. venues on Bishopsgate. It was […]
Meet And Engage Webinar: Fostering social mobility in your hiring process
30 April 2024
Last Tuesday, I was invited to a Meet & Engage session with Nicola Sullivan about fostering social mobility in your emerging talent hiring. The featured guest was none other than Glen McGowan, Group Head of Emerging Talent at HSBC. I grabbed a coffee, a biscuit, and logged on to listen… Sullivan set the scene by […]
Winning the Robot Wars: Employer Branding for AI and Tech Talent
18 January 2024
At the recent CES and DAVOS conferences, the talk was of course dominated by AI. While Meredith Whittaker, President of Signal, recently said on BBC Radio that all this talk is too much hype and threatening privacy, it’s clear that there’s a battle out there for AI and Tech Talent to help all kinds of […]
The devil’s in the data: measuring your employer brand
03 October 2023
Today we have access to far more data than ever before. But it still seems a bone of contention about how best to measure employer brand effectiveness. People still talk about impact on retention, when retention is dependent on so many factors, from family choices to salary hikes to ‘just wanting a change’. Surely, it’s […]
Bringing the Love to the IHR Employer Branding Conference
18 July 2023
Employer branding with more love. This year, we at 106 brought the love to the IHR Employer Branding conference – and can we just say it was the perfect match. For the uninitiated, this conference is a gathering of Talent professionals and Employer Branding whizzes, all interested and invested in telling their organisation’s story to […]
Out of the ashes: the latest workplace trends in a changed environment
09 November 2022
Covid was the bushfire that burned away old work habits and attitudes and left bare and fertile ground for new ideas and practices to grow. A year on and the saplings of new behaviours have taken root, so grab your binoculars and let’s take a look at the new landscape. At the 24-hour Inspiring […]
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