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Recruiting is one of the hottest issues for HR professionals largely thanks to an improving economy and low unemployment rates. The HR Daily Advisor research team wanted to take a snap shot of the recruiting landscape and conducted the 2017 Annual Recruiting Survey in January 2017. A total of 413 participants responded to the 2017 Annual Recruiting Survey, […]
U.S. employers expect the hiring pace to remain positive in the second quarter (Q2) of 2017 with 22% of employers planning to add staff between April and June. According to the latest ManpowerGroup Employment Outlook Survey, employers in all U.S. regions and industry sectors expect headcount to grow in Q2, with the upbeat forecast indicating […]
For some companies, celebrating the college basketball playoffs with coworkers is a slam dunk. Nearly one in four senior managers (23%) interviewed by staffing firm OfficeTeam said their employer organizes activities tied to sporting events like March Madness. Among those whose firms do get into the games, the top benefit is showing the company supports […]
Recruiting is one of the hottest issues for HR professionals largely thanks to an improving economy and low unemployment rates. So our HR Daily Advisor research team decided to conduct a survey on the recruiting landscape for 2017. Among other practices, we wondered how employers were approaching their conversations with job candidates in the areas […]
Does EQ outweigh IQ when it comes to success in the workplace? Nearly all human resources (HR) managers (95%) and workers (99%) surveyed by staffing firm OfficeTeam said it’s important for employees to have a high emotional quotient, or EQ, because it helps them manage their own emotions and understand and react to the emotions […]
As demand for engineering talent grows, employers will increasingly struggle to hang on to their best and brightest: 67% of engineers say they are likely to explore other job opportunities this year and 81% are confident they will land that new role. In this highly competitive talent landscape, employers need to rethink talent retention; this […]
New research from Waggl, a technology platform that enables organizations to quickly and easily crowdsource feedback from their employees, shows that over one-third of respondents in a new survey don’t trust their immediate supervisors. In a pulse survey conducted with hundreds of U.S. businesses and HR representatives from November 2016 through January 2017, 37% of […]
According to Patrick Jess Dimayga, Recruitment Experience Manager for Manila Recruitment, “Everyone is unique and has their own leadership style that can open new opportunities for the business. However, when searching for executives, it’s not just a matter of style or temperament. Rather, there is a list of criteria that makes an executive effective in […]
Tech trends are constantly shifting. To accommodate this change, IT hiring managers need to keep an eye on current trends and the employment landscape. To assist with this need, Modis—a global IT and Engineering staffing agency—surveyed 500 IT decision makers responsible for hiring within their organization. The survey focused on important key topics, such as: […]
The Super Bowl is right around the corner. Heinz recently announced it’s giving its employees February 6 off, the day after the Super Bowl, which has started a petition to make the Monday after the Super Bowl a national holiday. But do major sporting events throw workers off their game—or make them happier and more […]