How to Leverage Technology to Change the Way You Recruit
The best companies are made up of the best people. However, attracting and retaining top talent is still one of the biggest challenges businesses face today.
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Benefits Workers Want Most
As an HR professional, it’s your job to make sure the benefits your company offers are competitive and desirable. It’s not just about hiring the best and brightest—it’s about retaining the great people you already have! Knowing what sorts of benefits are most valued by employees today can help you make confident plans for the […]
Turning Cultural Differences into Workplace Assets
We humans are social creatures who have a compulsion to connect with other humans. Paradoxically, that same need deeply divides us from others as we choose to identify with those in our own tribes. Our tendency toward tribalism is increasingly creating a society segregated by ideological enclaves.
RecruitCon 2018 Recap: Outlook on the 2025 Workplace (Part 2)
In yesterday’s article, I discussed Susan Vitale’s RecruitCon 2018 session on the Outlook on the 2025 Workplace: How to Attract the Next Generation of Talent by Effectively Recruiting Millennials and Gen Z. In this article, I’ll focus on the consumer mindset to the recruiting process and how you can ensure your candidates get a good experience.
New Survey Indicates Wellness and Well-Being Programs Are Underutilized
As part of an effort to engage and retain employees, organizations are offering wellness and well-being programs. A full seven in 10 organizations offer such programs for employees, according to a new study from Brandon Hall Group, an HCM research and advisory services firm.
How Important Are Those Years of Experience?
A significant number of job postings include years of experience as a hiring criterion. Is this a best practice?
Benefits Litigation: Humana Case May Point to Oncoming Wave
Things are happening, and they portend an explosion of benefits litigation. Yes, this once-sleepy corner of the employment law forest is buzzing with news, and it came on March 1 from our very own U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals—which covers Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas—in an en banc decision, which means all the appeals court […]
The Modern Workplace Is Killing Us—Here’s What You Need to Know (Part 2)
Yesterday’s post covered Jeffrey Pfeffer’s take on the modern workplace and how it’s killing us. Pfeffer, professor of organizational behavior at Stanford Graduate School of Business, has just released a book called Dying for a Paycheck. And while the evidence about how toxic the modern workplace has become is shocking and appalling, there are some […]
Do’s and Don’ts for Using Recruiters When Scouting Top Talent (Part 1)
Over the past decade or so, there’s been a significant rise in the number of recruiters for hire and the number of recruiting tools and platforms available online. And jobseekers and recruiters alike are overall becoming more comfortable with the entire job search, candidate search, and hiring process online.1
What to Expect from Millennial Leaders in Coming Years
Millennials (those born between 1981 and 1995) now make up a majority of the workforce, according to Pew Research. And as more Baby Boomers (those born between 1946 and 1964) retire and Generation X moves up, and Generation Z (those born between 1995 and the early 2000s) starts entering the workforce, Millennials will begin to […]