In Episode 25 of Best Hire Ever, Kris Dunn talks with Tim Sackett about how bonus plan information drives candidate behavior and a recruiter’s … Read more
A Company Decided to Pay People Fairly. Here’s What Happened Next.
I was hired as a compensation analyst as my first job out of college, and my role was to figure out how to pay people. That was more than two decades ago. … Read more
Quality Trumps Quantity of Hires — and It Doesn’t Come Cheap
One European CEO, a big football (soccer) fan, pointed out that if you gave him a large enough budget, he’d be confident he could put together a winning … Read more
Minimum Wage vs Living Wage vs Essential Wage
My first job at 16 years old was a courtesy clerk at Kroger. I worked part-time during the week and usually a full eight hours on the weekend. I used my … Read more
Should You Adjust Pay for Remote Employees?
COVID-19 has catapulted remote work into the center of workforce planning and talent strategy, but the question looming on everyone’s mind is if it’s going … Read more
Frontline Healthcare Workers Deserve Pay Transparency
A vast increase in COVID-19 hospitalizations resulting from the pandemic gave rise to an unprecedented demand for healthcare workers in 2020. For instance, … Read more
The Impact of Remote Work on Compensation
The COVID-19 pandemic has surfaced a handful of new lessons and trends, especially as it relates to the workplace and labor market. Five months ago, of all … Read more
The Most Taboo Topic in the Hiring Process
Editor’s Note: This is part of a duo of simultaneously published articles about our collective discomfort addressing salary issues more openly. Check … Read more
The Legal Lounge: 4 Reasons to Ask About Salary History — and Why They Are Wrong
Over the past few years, an increasing number of states (17 to date) and localities have banned employers from asking candidates about their salary … Read more
The Legal Lounge: 9th Circuit Says Salary History Is No Basis for Unequal Pay for Equal Work
Andrea is a recruiter. She hired both Jamal and Vanessa as marketing managers. Jamal and Vanessa started at about the same time and have basically the same … Read more
New York’s Engineering Pay Is Hitting Silicon Valley Levels
Hiring software engineers has become increasingly difficult this year, particularly in New York. If you’re like many of the startups we’ve … Read more
Salary Transparency in Action – It’s Personal
Over the past two months, my company Kolmeta has been growing exponentially. So much so that I’ve decided to go all in on entrepreneurship and focus solely … Read more
Imagine Negotiating Your Salary With AI
Job hunting isn’t what it used to be. Technology has transformed the process from painstakingly walking door-to-door handing out printed resumes to … Read more
I’m Going to Try Making Salaries Transparent
As a leader in the corporate world, I always did my best to show up as my authentic self. That Kim can be a little sarcastic according to some. I … Read more
Pay Transparency and What Else Is on Employees’ and Candidates’ Minds
The traditional employer-employee power dynamic is in a state of transition. With access to real-time information, stories, and anecdotes, employees today … Read more
You Might Pay People Less If You’ve Got a Great Employment Brand
Many of the most sought-after employers are able to pay a discount to their competitors in terms of salary, because they are compensating their employees … Read more
The Top 5 No-cost Candidate-selling Approaches
In last week’s companion article “The Top 5 No Cost Sourcing Approaches — And Each Is Guaranteed To Work,” I covered the five best no-cost approaches … Read more
Recruiting Candidates Who Put Money First May Result in Early Turnover
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 … Read more
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. … Read more
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 … Read more