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A candidate I was working with recently interviewed for a chief strategy director position with a rapidly growing independent advertising agency. He was excited about the opportunity and motivated to meet with the COO of the firm.
In yesterday’s Advisor, we talked about the idea that there are clear pros and cons involved with choosing to hire/promote from within the organization vs. hiring an external candidate. We took a quick look at some of the pros and cons of hiring from within. Today’s Advisor will continue the conversation by outlining some of […]
Scrambling to fill a critical position (especially in a highly competitive market) can result in hiring the wrong person for the job—causing your organization’s costs to surge. The alternative? Look within your own organization for the perfect candidate. Internal hiring is a strong complementary strategy to external recruitment, and it’s how you’re going to quickly fill those critical, yet vacant, roles in your organization.
Adding to yesterday’s post, here are some additional items you’ll want to include on your 2019 L&D budget.
Going global? Already there? English is still the lingua franca abroad, but this is taken for granted. Stepping into the ring with a limited perspective will prove detrimental to your current or future international business endeavors. It’s time for the English-only workplace to plug language-training programs into their LMS. Standing out among the competition depends on it.
Over the last few posts, we covered the need to define your company’s culture and how to develop a human capital strategy.
Ready or not, the gig economy is already here. And there is no longer any doubt that it will impact your organization’s workplace culture in one way or the other over the coming years. Keep reading to learn more.
While every single one of your employees doesn’t necessarily need to know how to code software and websites just yet, there are four tech-related skills that all your employees should have by now.
There’s been much discussion about the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the recruiting process. While most focus on the bias-aspect of AI, many are seeing the benefits this technology offers to recruiters and hiring managers at all levels. If you aren’t using AI in the hiring process, what is a better time to start […]
National origin issues are all over the news. Can the United States treat individuals differently based on their country of origin? How will a person’s country of origin affect her ability to obtain a visa to work in the United States? What do you do when U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents or other […]