The company recently announced plans to flatten its structure by reducing the number of managers. But how many managers is too many? How many is too few? Read more
“This Will Be Tough”: Meta Targets Recruiters in New Layoffs
Plan to eliminate 10,000 more jobs, many in recruiting, would reduce Meta’s headcount by 25% since last fall. Read more
New NLRB Ruling May Abolish Severance Agreements…and Severance
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has just upended standard practices when it comes to severance agreements — in effect redefining the very nature … Read more
Top Stories: Explaining the Mass Tech Layoffs, New Time-to-Fill Data, and More!
Welcome to “The Most Interesting Recruiting Stories of the Week,” a weekly post that features talent acquisition insights and information from … Read more
New Research Reveals Surprising Findings About Quality of Hire
Finding meaningful metrics has proven to be recruiting’s white whale since the first candidate applied for the first job. The challenge lies in the fact … Read more
Recruiting When Your Company Is Doing Layoffs
If you work at one of the numerous companies currently experiencing hiring freezes or layoffs, you understand a truth that most laypeople don’t get: … Read more
Top Legal Considerations for Rehiring Former Employees
As more businesses begin to reintegrate employees into their pre-pandemic workplaces, many of our clients have questions regarding return-to-work issues. … Read more
Labor Market: Deceptions and Explanations Behind the Unemployment Rate
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
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