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On the Lookout: Recruitment Trends for This Year and Beyond
Technology and the competition for talent are changing the recruiting landscape significantly. Artificial intelligence and data analytics are giving recruiters powerful tools to locate, evaluate and communicate with job candidates. These digital...
Follow These Steps to Create a Great Apprentice Program
Companies are constantly complaining that they cannot find enough qualified people to fill all of their openings, saying that job candidates just don’t have the skills that are needed. A survey earlier this year revealed that the problem is worse...
When Terminating an Employee Remotely
Remote work requires an organized, purposeful approach to the employee experience — including how you let workers go. The world has changed. Remote work is no longer an occasional perk — it’s a permanent fixture. But remote work isn’t just lift and...
Why a Flexible Workforce is No Longer a “Want” But a “Need”
Used to be, many employers used temporary workers, independent contractors or freelancers only sporadically, such as during employee illness, leaves of absence or during the holiday season. But things have changed – savvy employers now use these...
Manager, Heal Thyself of Unconscious Bias
We all exhibit unconscious bias whenever we interact with others. In fact, psychologists have catalogued many different types of cognitive biases that filter our perception of the environment. But, once we are aware of these biases, we can be alert...
The Bottom-Line Benefits of Becoming a Fully Remote Company
When the COVID-19 pandemic struck, many people began working remotely to avoid becoming infected with the virus. They did it out of necessity. But companies and workers are seeing that working remotely has a number of advantages in addition to...
Overcoming the Overwhelm When Working at Home
The pandemic has caused a lot of upheaval in people’s lives. Many of us now work remotely, all the while trying to take precautions against the virus. We battle with a lot of anxiety and stress and even some disorientation. It’s a lot to get used...
E-mailing Passive Candidates in the Age of AI
If you’re a recruiter trying to catch the attention of a passive job candidate, you may feel like Sisyphus of ancient Greek mythology – the man who was doomed to forever push a large rock up a hill, only to have it roll back down again. In other...
Looking into Our Crystal Ball: Predicting the Future of Remote Work Post-Pandemic
Waaay back (in late 2019), about 7 million of us worked remotely full-time, which was about 3.2 percent of the entire workforce. In addition, about 43 percent of us worked at home at least part time. Now, during the pandemic? Gallup in mid-March...