Manufacturing runs on the skills of its workers and there is a growing skill gap in America. According to a report from Deloitte and The National Association of Manufacturers, 4.6 million jobs need to be filled by 2028, and 2.4 million jobs are projected to go unfilled due to a lack of trained workers. And…
Talent Acquisition professionals know they need to create more diverse pipelines in 2021, yet many don’t even know where to start. Hung Lee, Cofounder and CEO of Workshape.io & Curator for Recruiting Brainfood recently joined us to discuss what it really means to focus on Diversity and Inclusion in 2021, and how to leverage AI…
Let’s face it: just about everything you do as a recruiting organization depends on your online job application. Every paid ad, every email, and every recruiting event drives attendees to complete an online application at some point. So you’ve likely spent massive amounts of time analyzing and designing the perfect job application process — one…
Modern recruiting is…take a deep breath….complex, multichannel, data driven, personalized, integrated, automated, intelligent, results based, and highly competitive. Whew! There are more adjectives we could add, but you get the point. Modern recruiting has a lot going on compared to the early days of cold calling or reactive, “post and pray” tactics to attract talent.…
Throughout life our goals are often centered-on finding the right match – in love, our careers, where we should live, or who we should live with. So many important choices! We sort through these choices using different decision-making tools – and today technology has become involved. For instance, some of you may have family heading…
Extra! Extra! Read all about it. The annual Job Seeker Nation report is in, and it gives an in-depth look at job seekers’ preferences and behaviors both pre– and post-COVID-19. In recent years, low unemployment rates kept job seekers firmly in the driver’s seat of the US labor market. A scarcity of available workers meant candidates often had their…
Now more than ever, people tend to talk about their experiences with a company. And not just customers—-for better or worse, job candidates are likely to share their experiences both in conversations with their peers and on social media. That means a poor candidate experience can negatively impact a business’s reputation and their ability to…
How long does it take your company to hire a new employee? More importantly, how long are new employees likely to stay aboard? With today’s unemployment rates skirting an all-time low, and employees demanding more fulfilling work lives, finding the balance between speed and quality of hire presents quite the challenge. But it can be…
