Dec 5, 2023 | Company Culture, Talent Optimization
Boosting Employee Retention with Effective Onboarding Strategies It’s wise to equip employees for triumph from their initial days. Surprisingly, many firms overlook this, leading to a detrimental impact on retention rates. Workforce.com found that nearly 40% of...
Apr 9, 2019 | Hiring, Talent Optimization
Resumes are dying Did you know that the average recruiter spends about six seconds reviewing each resume? Yikes. If you’ve worked in recruiting or talent acquisition, this should come as no surprise. The average job opening receives as many as 250 applicants, so it...
Mar 12, 2019 | Information Technology
Few professionals are more spoiled for choice than tech talent. Much to their chagrin, recruiters and CIOs across the country are realizing that developers do not, in fact, grow on trees, but are more highly sought after than ever. Anyone who’s recruited for an IT...
Mar 8, 2019 | Financial Services
Exciting. Interesting. Fun. Not exactly words we generally use to describe working in financial services, are they? Let’s face it: banks, credit unions, and other financial institutions have a reputation for being stuffy, boring places to work. When competition for...
Jan 4, 2019 | Company Culture
Is a college degree worth it? Deep-seated in our minds from an early age, many of us have heard some form of the notion that in order to be successful, you must go to college and earn a degree. We’ve been fed this idea through our parents and family, our teachers,...
Jul 24, 2018 | Recruiting
Salary history bans…is it a great idea, or a terrible one? “What’s your current salary?” asked every recruiter since the beginning of time. But with a salary history ban, that inquiry is outlawed. It’s true, questions about salary make candidates squirm....
Jul 20, 2018 | Company Culture
How can you retain millennials? Younger employees switch jobs more than any other generation, and retaining millennials is becoming a big problem. In fact, according to a recent Fidelity report: 49% of millennials are open to a new job opportunity right now The...