Category: Human Resources
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How Job Boards Can Take the Lead in Company Culture Matchmaking
Company culture is a unique aspect of hiring. It is the one element that is not based on objective facts like skills or location but instead a match of style between candidates and employers. However, over many decades of analyzing what creates a successful long-term hiring decision, we find that company culture is an overwhelming…
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Five Strategies for Recruiting Women into Technology Positions
Firms across the globe continue to struggle to recruit and retain women in technology positions. In the U.S., for example, women make up 57 percent of the workforce, but hold just 26 percent of available technology positions. Though 46 percent of all E.U. workers are women, a mere 17 percent of its tech workforce is…
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Prepare Your Company for International Talent with Culturally Flexible HR Policies
Any company looking to function in an international market needs to be sensitive about the cultural and family needs of their community. Opening a business in a new country and becoming culturally sensitive to the global business society means being ready to adapt your practices based on the customs and personal practices of those you…
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Finding Top Talent Outside of The Traditional Candidates Pool – Part Two
Welcome back to the second half of this two-part article. Last time, we talked about how the job market has changed drastically in the last few years. With the rapid advance of mobile technology and the remote work possibilities that has opened up, employers have found themselves in a war for talent. While the number…
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Finding Top Talent Outside of The Traditional Candidates Pool – Part One
Considering how many technically skilled and financially successful adults there currently are in the world, it is surprising how small the talent pool has become. Every recruiter and hiring agent looking to fill a position are all facing what has become known as the “War for Talent”. Somewhere in the last decade, the recruiting landscape…
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The Ethical Approach to Using Social Media Research for Hiring Decisions
One of the core principles of modern business is that an employee’s personal life is private. It is never a manager’s business to know what an employee has done on their weekend, who they are romantically involved with, or even what they had for breakfast. On the clock employees should never be required to share…
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Worldwide Labor Market Trends
Political and social events throughout the world are felt directly by those working in the field of recruiting. The International Labor Organization’s 2017 trends outlook points to two major conclusions. There is a disconnect between economic growth and the growth of good employment opportunities. Two of their principle economists believe that the situation is likely to worsen.…
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Three Interview Tips to Determine Team Compatibility
One of the biggest hiring challenges across the globe is finding the right talented professional for your team. After weeks if not months of searching and interviewing, it can be incredibly disappointing, not to mention costly, to see a new hire fail to mesh with their team or move on too quickly. While it never…
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Why Top Talent is So Hard to Find?
In an environment where there is not just a national but a global crunch for talented employees, companies everywhere are scrambling to improve their recruitment strategies. What can be used to bring the technicians, engineers, specialists to our company rather than another? What lures of great benefits, company charity, or pet-friendly offices will do the…
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How to Use Your International Locations to Attract Top Talent Employees
From local markets to the international stage, companies across the globe are struggling to fill skilled employee positions, and it’s not just in the IT field. From engineers to talented industry supervisors, businesses are doing their best to attract talented members of the workforce to fill their empty positions but often we find that the…