Employee retention is always a hot topic - the cost of turnover is high, and the competition is constantly seeking...
How to Know When Your Employees Are About to Jump Ship
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California Employment Law Updates & HR Compliance Seminars
HR Challenges HR Leaders Can’t Ignore. Eligible for HRCI credits. Presented by McDermott, Will, & Schulte.
Employer Resources
Why Your Job Candidates Want You to Text, Not Call
Discover why job candidates prefer texting over calls and best practices for effectively integrating texting throughout your recruitment process.
How to Find Great Accounting Professionals
Hiring accountants in a tough market? Being proactive is key. Helpmates’ staffing experts explain how you can secure the best talent.
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...
Prepare Today for the Post-COVID Hiring World
Getting to a post-COVID19 world is going to take some time. Even as we gingerly make our way to reopening our economy, California has been hit with a big increase in infections and some business restrictions have been reinstated. But whether it...
Moving Beyond the “Hive Mind” When Recruiting
Bees. The golden with black stripes heroes of pollination. You no doubt have heard of their “hive mind”: the coordinated behavior they appear to exhibit, all in the benefit of the hive. It’s as if the there’s a single mind controlling each bee’s...