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85% of businesses are prioritising employee engagement in 2016. It's good for people, business and here are a few tools to help make measuring it easy.

Collect candidate videos as part of your recruitment process - it's super quick, streamlined and easy with the new Weirdly video integration.

Join the Weirdly #wellnesschallenge. Our automatic wellness challenge generator makes it easy. Get ideas for you and your team, every day.

Woop! Our new SmartRecruiters integration is here: Now you can choose an off-the-shelf Weirdly culture screening assessment from within SmartRecruiters

Deloitte released their annual HR Trend report this week and it's a doozy. Full of stats, graphs, insights and predictions for 2016 global HR and recruiting

A personality assessment is not as valuable as finding people with the right fit, or at least, that's what Google reckons. Here's why:

Better customer loyalty is the key to making sustained, long term growth (and money). So what's the trick? It's all to do with your frontline staff.

Hold on to your socks data nerds, there are two new Weirdos in town and they’re taking Weirdly’s skills to the next level: Malcolm Fell and Jeff Godbout.

This year, we've been chosen to join the clever, inspiring founders from EatMyLunch, Martin Jet Pack (who make actual jet packs), Kode BioTech and the crazy geniuses at 8i who, awesomely, just picked up funding from Ashton Kutcher.

Good news if you're implementing a diversity AND a wellness programme in your company, a new study shows it’s not really diversity that makes people less happy – it’s the lack of control, the feeling of being forced into something. And it means the difference between people developing empathy for each other and just putting up with things.

A truly great recruitment process should be efficient, and should also give candidates a feel for your culture and let them really showcase the things that could make them a rockstar in your team. Video is an awesome way to achieve all those objectives – like, if you were into killing birds, you’d be doing it with one stone.

So you're ready to take the leap. Growing your start up and launching into a new market is super-exciting, but the first hurdle is choosing where to focus your attention. Which city should you launch into? Hell, which country should you be focussed on? Here's how we're approaching this crucial decision:

We've collated our top-four list of clever tools you should be (but probably haven't thought of) using in your hiring process. These are quick, cheap online tools you can use as part of your people-hiring, team building suite that are fun, simple and useful.

Everyone's talking about diversity of thinking and building the ultimate startup teams. So what's the recipe we should be following to build creative, productive environments and how does culture fit relate to all this?

If you're planning to hire in the first quarter of 2016, it's worth running through a quick pre-hiring, recruitment checklist while you're still this side of Christmas, just to make sure you'll be ready to dive straight in when you get back to the office come January. There's nothing worse that getting stuck into hiring, just as the year is starting to ramp up and realising you don't have your ducks in a row.

With a slightly later start to day (maybe on account of the scorching 36+ degree heat!) the room was buzzing with HR professionals who’re keen to kick in to another day of inspiration and ideas - this time with a good dose of lively debate.

Here at Weirdly, we're really big on gratitude. Some of our favourite things to be thankful for are the clever, wise and sometimes plain funny nuggets of startup advice people have given us along the way. So we thought we'd give you an opportunity to share yours.

Letting houses burn is a part of growing a business fast. It's the inevitable result of real, useful focus. It's hard, and sometimes costs you in the long term, but this is the reality of startup – you’re juggling elephant-sized passion with teacup-pig resources so you’ve got to be ruthless about where and when you spend your attention.

When you have a talent pool, people will already feel engaged with you and your brand, so will feel great about hearing from you. Isn't that much better than a cold-call from a headhunter? The future of employment sure thinks so.