Résumé Screening Is Not Very Effective
A new survey from staffing firm Robert Half suggests that companies may not be great at reviewing résumés.
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Best Practices for Hiring Homeless Workers and Why You Should Consider Doing It (Part 2)
Continued from yesterday’s post, here are a few more best practices to follow when hiring homeless workers. Focus on Social Impact First While it is completely fine to want to generate profits (after all, that is the reason you’re in business), don’t consider business models that will exploit homeless workers simply so that your […]
Recruiting on a Snap Judgment
A recent survey finds nearly half of employers, 49 percent, know within the first five minutes of an interview if a candidate is a good or bad fit for a position, and only 8 percent take 30 minutes or longer to make up their mind.
Best Practices for Hiring Homeless Workers and Why You Should Consider It (Part 1)
A few years ago, Amazon hired homeless workers through a local YMCA in Washington state, and the program did not go over very well. However, other organizations like P.S. Kitchen in New York City and the Parks and Recreation Department in Boise are excelling after hiring homeless workers—which goes to show that hiring homeless workers […]
What Can Gender Balanced Management Teams Do for You?
A recent study finds teams managed by a balanced mix of men and women are more successful across a range of measurements.
Hiring Tips for Small Businesses
Even though small businesses make up 99.9% of all businesses in the United States, they only employ 47.8% of all U.S. employees. And sometimes they can’t land top talent when competing against larger enterprises that have more resources and much larger recruiting budgets.
Are You Losing Qualified Candidates Because of Technology?
The online job application is one of the best things to happen to employee recruitment. That’s the myth. The reality may be something entirely different.
Thanks, But No Thanks: 3 Tips for Politely Rejecting Job Applicants
You’ve spent countless hours poring over résumés and interviewing job candidates. You’ve finally found the perfect fit, so you offer that person the job. But now it’s time to let the other candidates know they were not accepted. Here comes the hardest part of the hiring process: rejection.
Are You Using Benefits Strategically?
The 2017 Strategic Benefits Survey from the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) finds that organizations need to move away from thinking about benefits in traditional ways and instead adopt a strategic mindset that considers the impact of benefits on employee recruitment and retention.
Five Potential Hot Jobs—and Recruiting Challenges—in 2018
Earlier this year, MIT Technology Review predicted five jobs that are likely to grow in 2018. We’re now well into the year; how prescient were its predictions? Let’s take a look at the five jobs predicted to grow in 2018: