The unemployment rate has dropped to 6.9% from 7.9% in October as the economy added 906,000 jobs. While that is encouraging news, the unemployment rate is … Read more
Techsploration: Recruiting and Its Tech Aren’t Ready for Mass (Re)Hiring
Don’t call it a comeback. The immortal words of LL Cool J are resonating through nervous recruiting departments across the country as they conservatively … Read more
The Advantages of Hiring Laid-Off Workers
Since the pandemic began, there have been a record number of layoffs across the country. Unemployment shot up from 3.8% in February to 14.7% in April. … Read more
The Revolving-Door Revolution: Stop Obsessing Over Retention
In a pre-pandemic world, businesses typically valued the longevity of an employee who would stay for the long-run. Essentially, they hired for long-term … Read more
Labor Market: Rebounding Out of the Darkness
The economy is improving. Don’t believe me. Believe the numbers:: 4.8 million jobs added in June as the unemployment rate declined to 11.1% from 13.3% in … Read more
New Research Reveals Misconceptions and Macro Trends in Global Hiring Strategies
You might assume that with U.S. unemployment skyrocketing in the last few months, the sudden influx of talent into the candidate pool would make hiring … Read more
How to Re-Recruit Your Workforce Amid COVID-19
With layoffs and hiring freezes due to the coronavirus pandemic, it’s a strange time for recruiting. But the best employer brand professionals understand … Read more
The Role of Chatbots When Hiring Many People — Or None
COVID-19 has changed the landscape for employers worldwide. Over the coming months, companies in highly impacted industries will continue to find … Read more
Does a Desire to Remain on Unemployment Make a Worker Less Loyal?
There are a lot of people writing and talking about the federal and state financial support available for people affected by the COVID-19 virus. Many of … Read more
How CVS Partners to Recruit Talent During the Pandemic
“Coronavirus is here, and we need your help.” With that simple call to action by CVS Health, the company launched an initiative that has become one of the … Read more
When Losing is Winning: Reflections on a Recruiting Job Transition
“I think I’ll lose my job tomorrow,” I told my husband. Earlier that day, the day after Labor Day, my third manager in a year had set a mandatory … Read more
Intel’s Latest Acquisition Will Speed-Up the Mass Unemployment of Truckers, Drivers
In the next decade, robots could replace 1.7 million American truckers, a workforce that represents one of the last remaining careers to offer a … Read more
A Graphical Look at What’s Happened to America’s Jobs
When the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released its May employment report Friday, it marked a recovery milestone. Six years and five months after the … Read more
Why Boomerang Rehire Programs Rank #2 in Producing High-quality Hires
Other than referrals from your top-performing employees, it’s hard to find a corporate recruiting source with a higher quality of hire (i.e. on-the-job … Read more
Bank’s Jobs Toolkit Is For Its Customers
Here’s one I don’t see often: a job-seeking toolkit put together for customers of a company. Read more
A Quick Look at U.S. Cellular’s Portal for Departing Employees
U.S. Cellular is helping employees losing jobs in the sale of some segments of its business to Sprint by setting up a transition portal. A recruitment … Read more
Nerdery Needing a Few Fewer Nerds
You may remember my post just last November about a company called The Nerdery. The Minnesota company was trying to “drive 100 programmers to their … Read more
California/Nevada Job-seeker Group Raising Money From the Crowd, Online
More evidence of the use of the crowd and the cloud in the employment field: A small group of California and Nevada job seekers is turning to an online … Read more
Terminations: A True Test of Your Company Culture
All of us have heard about messy terminations, and some of us have witnessed them firsthand. The most memorable are the employee who is escorted from the … Read more
Layoffs At Monster Worldwide
Monster Worldwide laid off an undisclosed number of workers Tuesday, and closed its operations in Brazil and Mexico. One report put the number at 800, … Read more