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Photo: Scott Webb Photography Ever wonder what it’s like for retail employees during the busiest shopping time of the year? While we plan outings and stealth trips away from our loved ones to purchase presents, retail employees are working full-time and sometimes overtime to meet customer demands and the increase in foot traffic. Looking after the retail staff is one thing t...

Photo by Paul Wellez Lin on Unsplash Did you know most of us spend 1/3 our life at work? That is approximately 90,000 hours over the course of a lifetime. With statistics as shocking as those numbers, it's no wonder our work life has an incredibly strong impact on our quality of life. Social drinking and nights out are giving way to activities with more impact as a way of bu...

Photo by Perry Grone on Unsplash The numerous articles on the future of work all speak of the power of collaboration. Whether you’re working in a traditional model of a business or remotely, at some point, you’re going to need to know how to work with others. So what exactly are the skills a professional person should be nurturing in order to be a ‘team player’? It’s that mu...

Image via: Shutterstock As automation becomes the new normal in many industries, recruitment isn’t immune to the advances of technology. Machine learning drastically cuts down on time consuming jobs such as job descriptions. Other tools are used to source, screen and schedule candidates. All this might leave anyone in the recruitment field feeling they will be automated out ...

Image: Brooke Cagle via Unsplash We’ve all heard friends and colleagues refer to fellow colleagues as their “work wife” or “work husband”. Beyond an endearing way of referring to your favorite person at work, studies show having deep and meaningful work friendships are an integral part of employee retention. Having a work spouse increases overall employee happiness and it do...

Photo by NordWood Themes on Unsplash In the first week of April, Lush UK announced they were quitting social media with this post on their Instagram account. The brand shared they have grown tired of fighting the ever-changing world of algorithms and did not want to pay to show up in their followers' news feeds. This created a whirlwind of commentary online. Lush UK has 202,...

Photo by Dylan Nolte on Unsplash It’s no secret the fashion industry was nearly 90% in favour of remain when it came to the 2016 referendum on Brexit. The people voted and since then the messy break up and inability to negotiate the UK’s way out of the EU has become known the world over. At Directory, the biggest question is, what does this mean for the candidate pool? Most ...

Did you know the first International Women’s Day took place in 1911? As we live in a mobile first world, we undoubtedly are inundated with IWD content all over our social feeds and in our inboxes. But what is it, exactly? Well, according to the official website, IWD is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women. The day also m...

Photo by Mimi Thian on Unsplash For the last 5 years, the goal for many young people entering the workforce has been two seductive words “remote work”. Social media feeds are littered with graduates working from the comfort of their sofas at home, to overlooking sandy white beaches with their Mac Books building their empire under a blazing sun. Whereas it is true, entreprene...

Image via Pinterest Let’s face it, no one is thinking of re-doing their CV in October when the holiday calendar officially kicks off with Halloween. And kiss any notions of career planning out the window when December is all bubbly and nights out. Now that we are well into 2019, it’s not too late to update your CV. While we are looking to shed our lives of social media accou...