Culture

A day in the life of… Head of Marketing at a fintech startup

Fintech was perhaps the buzzword of Q1 2016, so it’s fitting that our next ‘day in the life’ comes from a fintech startup.

Anna Kilmurray is Head of Marketing at ClearScore, a company providing free credit check software.

Here’s what she has to say about life in a startup.

Training for teams

HR departments are feeling the pain of digital disruption

Just as digital has allowed marketing and ecommerce teams to become more customer centric, digital is also helping HR departments to become more employee centric.

Econsultancy invited 12 senior HR and Learning & Development professionals to our London office to discuss what Digital Transformation means to them.

We wanted to find out how the industry is measuring and improving digital skills and what impact is digital having on organisational structures and procedures? Here’s what we learned.

How brands celebrated International Women’s Day 2016

International Women’s Day has developed into a truly global celebration of gender equality and female empowerment with Tuesday’s event proving to be the biggest yet.

Social media was abuzz with conversations around this year’s theme of #PledgeForParity and there were over 1.1m mentions of the other official hashtag #IWD2016 on the day via Twitter alone.

Five factors that help create strong company values

As your team grows and customer needs change, it’s important for leaders to revisit company cultural values and gauge whether they still reflect your mission.

When HelloWorld first began as ePrize in 1999, it was a Detroit startup with an entrepreneurial vision.

l'oreal employee engagement

How L’Oréal uses social media to increase employee engagement

Earlier this week I attended a talk by L’Oréal’s Digital Employer Branding Manager, Alexander Onish, in which he discussed how the cosmetics brand uses social media to make it a more attractive employer and improve employee engagement. 

Having previously worked for a learning and development company, I’m familiar with employee engagement.

You could describe it in any number of convoluted ways, but essentially it is a measure of how much your people actually care about their jobs and the company.