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Employer brand content: quick and dirty or highly polished?

23 May 2023 | Si Andrew

There’s authentic charm in off-the-cuff content, but something high-end can show the quality and care you put into the business. Which is right?

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HR own employer branding. Here’s why.

8 March 2023

Marketing can manage the message. Recruitment can reach your audience. But employer branding is a question of reputation, and only HR can build a great workplace.

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What the 90s video shop taught me about employer branding

21 February 2023 | Si Andrew

Learn to approach your employer branding like a modern blockbuster, not a 90s VHS. Don’t be the business left on the shelf.

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Storytelling: It aint’ what you do.. it’s the way that you do it

2 February 2023 | James Blake

The Surgery’s Senior Copy Writer, James Blake, talks 80s music, storytelling and how it can make you stand out from the crowd for this year’s storytelling week.

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LOSING A LIMB? IT’S WORSE THAN THAT, JANET

22 September 2022

The Surgery’s Employer Brand and Behavioural expert Si Andrew told attendees at the recent Barn to Boardroom Employee Experience event how EX and EVP can drive recruitment and retention.

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Kick-Arse Employer Brands: the podcast

5 July 2021

Carly and Simon talk to experts from the field of employer branding, looking for top tips, interesting stories and embarrassing f#ck ups – all to help you build your own kick-arse employer brand

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2021, the year you nail your employee value story

16 February 2021 | Simon Andrew

2020, feels like a dream. But we’ve got the boxsets to say it happened – The Queen’s Gambit, Snowpiercer, White Lines, The Stranger. The endless supply of decent dramas has been a welcome distraction.

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How to talk about race guide

4 November 2020

How-To Guide, which we hope will help you start having those all so important conversations about race in your workplace

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Enter if you dare… the IC house of horrors

27 October 2020 | James Blake

With Halloween just around the corner, we thought it would be dastardly of us to round up some of your IC horror stories, those blood-curdling moments when you realised you’d made a monster of a mishap…

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‘Getting’ Internal Comms – do your colleagues and leaders understand what you do?

30 July 2020 | James Blake

“Ah yes, internal comms… you send out those emails, don’t you,” a senior colleague once said to me. Not only were ‘those emails’ just a small part of months of hard work putting the communications around a massive office relocation together, but he was also speaking to me at the end of a successful internal event about the subject.

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