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What’s a Welcome Ambassador?

If you haven’t lived the immigrant or refugee experience, consider f...

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10 Tips to Help You Land Your Next Gig (Quickly), From a Senior Recruiter

Looking for work? There is no time to spare! Let’s hop right to it.

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How to find the right candidates and have a great interview remotely

LinkedIn and other professional sites have helped open the world of talent...

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How are we managing?

At VentureWeb we coordinate staffing placements in nearly every continent ...

Would you consider hiring a fractional CMO?

As an innovative business, how can you get a boost of key talent without c...

Is the gig economy making you think differently about the way you work?

Everyone talks about how the pace of change in the global workforce is acc...

We wrote a Candidate Care Charter. Here’s why.

If you’ve recently been a candidate on the hunt for a new job opportunity,...

Link Literacy Project – Mandela Day 2018

Mandela Day in South Africa is a day dedicated to the memory of Nelson Man...

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Why your company should create the best candidate experience

I have friends whose children are graduating and heading into the working ...

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A day in the life of…. a Marketing Comms Associate.

As a marketing professional for a top global management firm, Olivia share...

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Think agility when building your teams

“Surge capacity”, “agile workforces”, “contingency staffing”. Heard these ...

A day in the life of…. a Global Social Business Lead.

Ever wish you could work successfully for an award-winning global company ...

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A day in the life of…. a Content Lead.

Charles, a VentureWeb Associate based in South Africa, tells us all about ...

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A day in the life of…. a Graphic Designer.

Pradeep is a senior graphic designer with VentureWeb who is passionate abo...

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A day in the life of…. a Digital and Social Media Manager.

Sheena, a fully-remote and flexible VentureWeb Associate, tells us why she...

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A day in the life of…. a Recruitment Associate.

Daniel is an Associate for VentureWeb and enjoys a fulfilling, travel-rich...

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A day in the life of… a Website Management Lead

Amanda, a valued, treasured VentureWeb marketing Associate and Careers Sit...

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A day in the life of…. a Digital Marketing Manager.

Ever wondered what it is like to be a Digital Marketing Manager in an inte...

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3 ways ‘Translation Memory’ can help you.

Translation memory is without a doubt one of the first questions you shoul...

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The remote workforce is here to stay.

The remote workforce and flex workforce is not the workforce of the future...

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Wanted: maturity and commitment.

Remote working = Responsibility. Listening to some of the interviews in th...

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Remote workers: Go where you are treated best.

On day 3 of the Remote Summit I came across this very interesting intervie...

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The benevolent tyranny and muscle flexing.

As strong advocates and enablers of the agile and remote workforce, Ventur...

Resilience – if it was easy, we’d all do it.

Many of us are returning to work this week after the summer holiday break ...

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2017 Internet trends.

Mary Meeker presented her comprehensive 355-page internet trends report at...

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The rise of the agile workforce.

The concept of an agile workplace has been growing in popularity for the l...

‘Cats and culture.’ Creating a company we love.

In a nutshell, this is what creates a great company: leading from the top,...

Ladles of Love (2016)

A big drive is to help homeless people leave the street. We’ve helped eigh...

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Christmas in July (2016)

When winter hit us at VentureWeb, and night temperatures got low, we wante...

The Shine Literacy project (2016)

Shine Literacy is a non-profit organisation that seeks to improve literacy...

Nelson Mandela Day (2017)

July 18th marks Mandela Day in South Africa. ‘Mandela Day is a global call...

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The value of the mature worker.

It’s been said that getting old is not for sissies. The body slows down, y...

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The AI revolution – part 2

The hot topic of AI recently sparked a public dispute between Tech titans ...

How and why an agile workforce works.

When looking at the workforce of today, it is being noted that traditional...

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The secret to being a ‘boss’ boss.

On a recent trip to the UK, I had the good fortune of meeting up with an e...

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The AI revolution – part 1

AI as a concept has gone far beyond sci-fi machines made popular on TV sho...

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