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Hiring decisions are typically made solely by the employer, with little to no input from employees. This is a mistake, Heather R. Huhman argues on Entrepreneur.com. She says that by staying fully in charge of the hiring process, employers may cause potential candidates to shy away from job offers.
Communication skills, in general, are essential to recruiting success. But one of these skills is frequently overlooked.
You’ve no doubt heard that you should “create a consistent candidate experience.” But what does that mean, exactly? And why is it important?
At RecruitCon Road Trip East in Boston, keynote speaker Kurt Anderson, director of human resources for Definitive Healthcare, a provider of data for the healthcare industry, began his presentation by showing two images, one that looked like a magnet and another that looked like a black lump.
In part 1 of this article, we outlined why new employee salaries should take competitive pay information into account and about how setting a competitive salary level is a tool to reflect and help meet organizational goals. Now, let’s take a look at where to get data on what your competitors are paying.
You won’t find it on a best-seller list, and it may not offer a respite from a busy world. Nevertheless, if you’re a recruiter or hiring manager, you’ll want to read your company’s employee handbook.
In today’s competitive job market, high potential (HiPo) employees are even more of a Holy Grail than they normally are. That’s because research consistently shows that a small percentage of the workforce drives a large portion of organizational outcomes. And those star employees are multipliers, too, boosting the performance of their colleagues—especially their direct reports—by […]
According to Kurt Anderson, director of Human Resources at Definitive Healthcare in Framingham, Massachusetts, recruiting is a long game. Eddie Cantor (or maybe Danny Thomas) famously said, “It takes 20 years to make an overnight success,” and it took us 7 years to become a “Best Company to Work For.”
A new survey has found that 62% of American workers have traveled to another state for work in the past 12 months, with 38% having spent 30 days or more in another state for work-related travel during the same time frame. The TSheets survey sought to find out what motivates these mobile workers, as well […]
Glassdoor has released new data revealing greater resources are expected to be devoted towards improving a lack of diversity over the coming year. One in three (35%) hiring decision makers expect to increase investment in diversity and inclusion (D&I) efforts and only 3% expect it to decrease; the remainder are continuing to invest at the […]