Where Businesses Plan to Focus to Overcome Talent Shortage
Motivated by a shortage of talent, and fueled in part by record low unemployment and a spike in business confidence, companies are bolstering efforts to improve the workplace experience.
Tag: HR
Just How Well Does Text and App Recruiting Work?
We recently had a chance to sit down with Erik Kostelnik, Founder and CEO of TextRecruit, and Susan Vitale, Chief Marketing Officer of iCIMS, to discuss text and app-based recruiting and communication. Our conversation comes in light of iCIMS’s recent acquisition of TextRecruit.
6 Talent Acquisition Practices of High Performing Organizations
The acquisition and development of talent at all levels of high performing organizations is no accident – it’s the result of specific and surprisingly consistent characteristics that can be learned and implemented.
Spotting Top Talent During an Interview
How many top performing candidates have you interviewed? How many have you hired? More importantly, how many slipped through your fingers because you didn’t know they would be top performers? Today we’ll look at an article by Rick Crossland on exactly this topic.
Why You Should Be Offering Frequent Performance Feedback
A large part of Human Resources (HR) is ensuring that a company runs smoothly at all times. Since there are a lot of working parts in any single company, there is also a lot that needs to be addressed, kept track of, and engaged with for prime performance results. Your employees are what keeps the […]
3 Trends That Will Shape HR in 2018
Much attention is paid to cultures that contribute to the crash and burn of companies, while successful organizations highlight leadership and discuss the culture that allowed them to outpace the competition. Moving forward, C-suite leadership will talk about company culture at board meetings, hire visionary HR leaders who can evolve culture for the better, and […]
Know Your Employees’ Work Languages
Note from Dan Oswald: A colleague and I, on occasion, discuss various leadership or management approaches. It was more than a year ago when he floated the concept of “work languages” during one of our conversations. I told him that I agreed with his overall premise, as I believe that a leader must understand what […]
The Happiest Jobs in America
A recent survey finds that job satisfaction depends, at least in part, on the work you do. It also depends on where in the country you live and work.
Rhode Island Court: Paid Suspension Is Adverse Employment Action
Recently, Judge John J. McConnell, Jr., of the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island heard a claim from a female employee who says she was placed on a paid suspension after announcing that she was pregnant.
33% of HR Hiring Managers Have Turned Down a Candidate for Being ‘Too Pushy’ After an Interview
Workers may be thinking “new year, new job,” according to a survey from staffing firm Accountemps. Approximately three in 10 (29%) professionals plan to look for a new position in the next 12 months. And of the 27 markets surveyed, Los Angeles, California (40%); Austin, Texas (38%); and Dallas, Texas (37%) topped the list of U.S. cities with the most workers […]