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Today’s candidates are unlike any employers have encountered in history. With unique needs, priorities and unprecedented access to information, organizations are continuously searching for ways they can attract and retain the world’s top talent.
Technology is advancing at such a rapid pace that in 2020, about 5 million jobs will be replaced by automated machines. Self-driving cars will gradually change the way we travel, and artificial intelligence (AI) will soon make decisions for us. We are on the verge of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, an age that will require […]
Increasingly, customers and employees expect companies—and their leaders—to stand for more than just the bottom line. More and more social advocacy, a commitment to equality, and giving back are defining successful brands. To learn more about these evolving expectations, Salesforce Research surveyed over 1,500 business professionals on workplace equality and values-driven leadership trends.
By ever-increasing numbers, employers are utilizing social media as part of their recruiting and hiring efforts. But any employer that’s serious about its expansion into the vast world of social media to find top talent soon learns how much of a time commitment is involved.
In many workplaces across the country, managers feel pressured by company leaders to achieve specific goals or levels of productivity, and become focused on winning no matter what it takes, using motivation by fear to get their employees to work faster, harder and for longer hours. These tactics may work in the short term, but […]
Many companies want to know how their compensation practices align with others in their industry. The 2017 projected pay increase data has been released by Compdata—a compensation survey and consulting firm—and is outlined by industry below. View the image below and find out where your company stands in comparison. For more information on this data, […]
A new nationwide study reveals that there is a significant year-over-year jump in the percentage of companies hiring full-time, part-time, and temporary or contract workers from July 1, 2017 through December 31, 2017.
A new infographic, released by Office Team, is highlighting which country has the happiest workers. The infographic data was compiled using research conducted by leading happiness and well-being experts Nic Marks and Saamah Abdallah of Happiness Works.
Organizations are spending more and more time focusing on conveying their employer brand when recruiting candidates—generally, these efforts are intended to give potential candidates insights into company culture, as well as what they might expect in their day-to-day experience at the company. But one area that employers may overlook when crafting and projecting their brand […]
Cyber warfare can be used for all kinds of purposes, not just the hacking of politicians’ or political parties’ emails. Businesses and financial institutions are all fair game. To protect digital assets, which include proprietary information and sensitive personnel data, employers need to double down in this age of hacking and set up systems to […]