Do you work in an organization where increasing an employee’s pay for retention purposes isn’t a realistic option? Whenever you hire someone who is driven by money, you are setting yourself up for future turnover failure. Money-focused hires are likely…
Wages, Pay, & Salary
4 Things We Should Change in the Hiring Process: Cover Letters, Interview Follow-up, and Salary Transparency
Recently, a Reddit user asked fellow users on the platform, “What social custom needs to be retired?” Many of the top answers pertained to work and jobs. Let’s take a look at four of those discussions. The Cover Letter The…
U.S. Cities Where Salaries Go Farthest, and Those Where There Are Decent Jobs, Too
You know the problem — the places in the U.S. that are the most affordable to live in don’t usually have the kind of job opportunities that would make you want to live there. So, what kind of places are…
Excite Applicants by Boldly Providing Promotion, Pay, and Retention Info
If you need to gain a competitive advantage in recruiting, consider proactively revealing detailed information covering the attraction factors that applicants care the most about, including pay, development opportunities and promotion, and employee retention rates. Now before you prematurely reject…
Want to Escape Hiring Inertia? Pay Higher Wages — and List Salary Details in Your Job Descriptions
Every employer wants to fill open jobs with qualified candidates fast. But recent employment and hiring trends data suggest that it’s only getting harder for companies to achieve that basic staffing objective. The DHI-DFH Mean Vacancy Duration Measure, which draws…
3 Ways to Convince Leaders to Get Down and Dirty With Salary Details
You might remember my post on “How to Ensure Top Talent Won’t Ever Turn Down Your Salary Offer.” In the comments, someone wrote “I’d love this, but I have yet to find a company willing to be transparent about salary. A…
How to Ensure Top Talent Won’t Ever Turn Down Your Salary Offer
Perks and benefits add value to a job, and top talent has been vying for the companies that offer the best “extra little something” over the past few years. However, you’re fooling yourself if you think that an endless selection…
Top 10 Tips for Hiring Differently Under Salary History Laws
Alert — New Salary History Expectations Require Changes in Your Hiring Process Typically there are a few reasons for recruiters or hiring managers to pay much attention to compensation laws. However, that disinterested approach must now change because of new…
Even in Jobseeking, Men Are From Mars, Women Are from Venus
It’s been 25 years since John Gray published the now famous — or maybe infamous — treatise on gender relationships, “Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus.” Gray’s thesis was that for cooperation to flourish in romantic relationships, both…
Actually, Asking for Salary History is a Mistake
I see many “issues” with the reasons presented in this article. These are outdated thought processes that do not apply to the new talent-driven market we are in. Add on the fact that jobs have changed dramatically and there is…
Some Firms Use the Practice of Requesting Salary History — Why Firms Ask for It and How They Use It
The practice of firms either requesting or requiring applicants to provide their “salary history” is coming under tremendous pressure as part of the overall push for pay equity for women. And as a result, there are many new and proposed…
Salary History and Gender Are Antiquated Data Points for Salary Negotiations
Last year, with the stroke of a pen, Governor Charlie Baker made Massachusetts the first state in the nation to ban HR departments from asking for salary history from candidates. The law, which goes into effect on July 1, 2018,…
A Look at New York City’s New Law Prohibiting Employers From Inquiring About the Salary History of Applicants
In its latest effort to close the “gender gap” on wages, the New York City Council has enacted legislation (effective in 180 days) prohibiting employers from inquiring about a job applicant’s “salary history.” As the new law forbids inquiry into…
Nearly 500,000 New Jobs Added This Year
Employers continued to add nonfarm jobs at a rapid pace in February, increasing payrolls by 235,000 during the month, blowing past predictions of a more modest increase. Adding to economists’ surprise, the U.S. Labor Department’s monthly employment report also showed…
Jobs Grow by 156K in December; Wages Take Jump
Ending the year much as it began, employers hired a modest 156,000 new workers in December, bringing the total for 2016 to 2.16 million new jobs. In 2015, employers added 2.74 million. While this morning’s jobs estimate from the Labor…
Overtime Rule Delayed, But Not Reversed: The Impact So Far
In May of 2016, the U.S. Department of Labor announced that it would raise the salary threshold set by the Fair Labor Standards Act, above which workers are ineligible to receive overtime pay — more than doubling it from $455…
What the Data Tells Us about Hiring Trends in 2017
At Glassdoor, I spend my time trying to make sense of the labor market through research, primarily with our own data. In 2016 I learned a lot about hiring challenges facing both the recruiter and job seeker, about how the…
Unemployment, Hourly Pay Decline In November; Employers Add 178,000 Jobs
U.S. employers added 178,000 new non-farm jobs during November, according to a government employment report that’s only surprise was a sharp decline in the unemployment rate to 4.6 percent. Today’s monthly report from the U.S. Department of Labor showed private-sector…
ZipRecruiter Testing an Interesting ‘Check Salary’ Feature on Job Ads, Including Its Own
ZipRecruiter is testing a new feature on its site that it hopes will get more employers to provide salary information about a job. On some job ads on ZipRecruiter, the feature I noticed last week gives job candidates the choices of…
The Top 5 Power Tips For Selling Extremely Hard-to-close Candidates
In this obviously tight job market, I estimate that it has become at least 25 percent harder to sell the most in-demand candidates. And closing the best is even more difficult if you are recruiting techies, data scientists, data security,…