Ace the Interview, Make the Best Hire
A successful interview, like a good relationship, is a two-way street: Both parties contribute and benefit from the experience. With a strong recruiting partner, you can count on qualified candidates in your pipeline, but that alone isn’t enough to ensure the best hire. A good interview provides valuable insights into an applicant’s personality and […]
Benefits and Pitfalls of Pay Transparency
In our last post, we discussed laws that prohibit asking applicants about prior pay and new legislation that requires employers reveal salary ranges in postings or at specific stages in the hiring process. Salary history and pay transparency laws aim to reduce gender and racial pay discrimination. Although the laws vary by state, employers should […]
What You Should Know About Pay Transparency Laws
In the old days, Hiring Managers could ask how much your previous job paid, employees who shared salary information could be fired, and job postings rarely included the salary range unless it was a government or union job. But those days are gone, and the growing employment trend is toward laws that require more salary […]
Achieve Health Resolutions at Work
It’s January, let the resolutions begin! Whether it’s losing weight, eating better, or getting off the couch—now is the time to commit to self-improvement. Unfortunately for most people, heartfelt New Year’s resolutions are often forgotten by February. Employers, however, can be major drivers to help staff achieve their health goals, and when that happens, it’s […]
The Power of Gratitude
Anxious about your job, your health, the state of the economy? Join the crowd. To varying degrees, worry has always been with us. We have all been guilty of fretting about small and large issues, real and imagined. When you consider the uncertainty of the last few years, it’s no wonder people are anxious. The […]
What You Should Know About Quiet Firing
Last time we posted on the fallout from Quiet Quitting. Today, we examine the consequences of Quiet Firing—purposely creating unfavorable work conditions to get an employee to quit. Whether Quiet Quitting or Quiet Firing, today’s silent workforce war may be a result of overstressed employees and managers, or a symptom of limited interpersonal skills, but […]
Three Tips to Silence Quiet Quitting
Whether you consider quiet quitting an alarming uptick in lazy employees or a justified attempt at work/life balance, this attitude toward work negatively impacts workers and employers alike. It may be a new term, but it refers to an attitude that has been around forever. We all know people who only do the minimum required, […]
Three Tips so Ghosting Doesn’t Haunt Your Hiring Process
Ghosting (stopping all communication without explanation) started as a dating term, but it has become an alarming and harmful trend in the talent world. When job seekers are ghosted, they’re left with a bad candidate experience and an unpleasant perception of the employer. When employers are ghosted, they’re left with wasted time and delays in […]
Three Ways to Beat the Talent Crisis
Across industries, today’s labor shortage is having a huge impact on how companies conduct their business. Without enough talent to deliver their products and services, many businesses are facing delayed growth or in extreme cases, whether they can even stay afloat. While enabling staff to work remotely has helped some companies attract candidates, there is […]
Five Reasons to Support Workations
The Covid-19 pandemic has changed us. As businesses, supply chains, and institutions worldwide attempt to recover and move forward, one thing is certain: There is no going back. Since the pandemic, a record number of people left the workforce or changed jobs. According to a PwC survey of more than 52,000 workers in 44 countries, […]