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The Bureau of Labor Statics has recently reported the lowest unemployment rate in years, but some industries are still facing labor shortages. The construction industry seems to be the hardest hit, as nine out of 10 contractors report that they haven’t been able to find skilled labor for the past year.
If you’re sick of hearing the term “Millennials,” you’re in luck! Millennials make up a majority of the workforce, and employers and HR professionals have been talking about them for years. Now that the oldest Millennial will be 37 years old, it’s time to focus on a new generation of workers who will be, or […]
The candidate experience begins when a candidate first hears about your company according to Gail Houston and Leslie Mason—Executive Recruiters for Intuit. Houston and Mason discussed the candidate experience in a recent session, Experience is Everything: How to Treat Candidates Like Customers to Close the Deal at RecruitCon 2018 in Nashville.
The concept of “hire for attitude, train for skill” might require a closer look. Certainly giving special attention to attitude seems reasonable, but you might want to think twice before you discount skills.
School is wrapping up for many across the country, which means more students will be looking for jobs to fill the void this summer. Fortunately for them, 41% of companies in a recent CareerBuilder survey say they expect to hire more summer workers for the second year in a row.
Whether you’re filling a new position to help your company grow or replacing an employee who is leaving, you’re not just filling out a slot on an organization chart. You hope to find someone who can add to the strength and capability of your group—someone who is just right for the position you want to […]
In the pursuit of innovation and technological advancement, businesses are eagerly hopping aboard the artificial intelligence (AI) bandwagon.
A new report released by HackerRank shows that skills continue to be the number one thing hiring managers and tech recruiters look for when seeking out top tech talent. However, in order to be successful in hiring tech workers, hiring managers and tech recruiters need to align their hiring strategies to focus on measuring the […]
No one wants to feel fooled. No one wants to feel as though he or she was taken advantage of. If candidates make it through the recruitment process with false pretenses, it can feel like you’ve been duped. Worse, if they’ve misrepresented themselves, it could even mean they’re not actually qualified to do the job—and […]
It’s a real blow when valuable workers hand in their 2 weeks’ notice. Whether you had your suspicions or the resignation came out of the blue, you feel like you have to take action pronto—especially if those leaving are key players and have extensive knowledge of the company.