Skills, Experience, Culture Developing a culture for your team or organization is a process that is built over time. It’s a mindset created and followed by the leadership team which trickles down throughout the rest of the organization. Developing that culture is a process. It doesn’t happen overnight with a trendy statement or some flashy [...]
Don't Overlook the Candidate Starting a Second Career Starting a second or a new career can be a difficult decision for any person to make. Making the choice of leaving a profession that you know and are comfortable with, to go into a completely new professional direction can be daunting. There are be many different [...]
How Technology Assists (or hurts) Recruiting According to a survey conducted by the American Staffing Association Workforce Monitor, 80% of Americans think that applying for a job today seems like sending their resume into a black box, while 69% of the job aspirants believe or feel that the hiring process today is far too impersonal. [...]
The technology sector in the US continues to be of the most lucrative and high-growth sectors for job seekers. Here are some of the fastest growing tech jobs that you should consider if you are focusing on building a tech career. Software Developer The demand for software developers has been strong for decades and continues [...]
Social media is one of the most effective online tools businesses use to establish trust, engage their customers, and get their views on their products or services. Customer comments and reviews are important because it can go a long way in determining the acceptability and patronage of a brand. However, reviews are not always favorable. [...]
Recruiters often have to spend a large part of their time reading and evaluating every single resume that comes across their desks. And if a job position receives thousands of applications, going over all the CVs can take weeks – if not months. According to a survey, nearly 52% of HR professionals said that the [...]
Most recruiters say that some of their best hires were passive job candidates. What is a passive candidate? It’s someone who is currently employed and not actively looking for a new job, however, who might be open to a solid career opportunity if it came along. Regardless of how happy and dedicated job seekers are [...]
Every company recognizes that a happy employee is a productive one. But how many companies are really making an effort to keep their employees happy as well as engaged? According to a detailed report by the Engagement Institute, disengaged employees cost American companies nearly $550 billion a year. If this doesn’t tell you about the [...]
All-Time Highs in Staffing by Employment Agencies As 2018 drew to an end, it saw with it an all-time high in temporary and contract workers, according to a March 14, 2019 report from the American Staffing Association. The ASA reported (link https://americanstaffing.net/posts/2019/03/14/staffing-employment-sets-record-high-in-2018/ to ASA report) that an estimated 3.23 million temporary and contract workers sought [...]
In 2018, American companies spent more than $100 billion on employee training activities and over $1 billion on employee engagement programs. Still, the employee engagement rate hasn’t improved much and it continues to stagnate at around 34%. That’s not even the most troubling part. The business environment is getting increasingly unpredictable and most American workers [...]
