How To Prevent a Skills Gap in the Workforce When corporate training started rising to prominence in the 1970’s, companies began to see how technology would evolve the way that workers, well, worked. Games like The Oregon Trail showed that times were changing, and new skill sets were going to be needed as technology and …
Achieve your work-life goals and launch your career You got work-life goals? Who doesn’t. We all want to reach our income goals, do work that helps us reach those goals, get the knowledge we need to keep up with in-demand jobs and connect with other people who have similar professional interests. Get advice from mentors …
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Looking to Hire for Entry-Level Jobs but Asking Experience – Stop it! Entry-level jobs are jobs filled with tasks. These jobs have a maximum set of expectations to go along with it – most of which any 12-year-old in a first world country can do. They may not have the maturity but they have the physical and mental …
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Are You Underestimating “Hard Skills”? Common questions that are routinely asked in an interview, no matter the type of position: “What are your strengths?” and “What are your weaknesses?” The answers to these questions should be directly related to your skills. Too many people focus on personality traits when they hear this question. Stand out as a front runner …
A Better Solution to a Applicant Tracking System – Match Skills to Jobs Direct skills matching removes some of the obstacles that an Applicant Tracking System (ATS) puts in front of job seekers. By relying less on keywords and more on skills, employers will have an easier time placing the right candidates in the right …
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No Such Thing as Free: The True Cost of Hiring & Finding Work The best aspect of the digital era is the free flow of information. You can find blog posts, mobile applications, podcasts, and videos on any topic. Including finding work. There certainly isn’t a shortage of free information. But is it? We look at …
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How to Hire Like the Big Guys: Building Company Culture It takes a lot of heavy lifting to make a multi-million (or multi-billion dollar) organization run. Jumbo employers need big software solutions and complex delivery systems just to address their human capital management needs. Their price tag runs upwards of $500k/year…ouch! The good news for …
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Hiring the Next-Generation Workforce – How to Handle Them Do you feel like hiring the next generation of workers is more complicated or difficult than workers of the past? As a company that focuses on getting the next generation matched with work, we know a thing or two about who they are and how they …
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Talent Acquisition Strategies: Hiring for the Future While business hiring processes have changed over the last few decades, the pace of that change has hardly kept up with the technological developments available to us. Twenty years ago, hiring as an employer was arguably a less deliberate process than it is today. There were fewer bodies to fill jobs …
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What Does a Recruiter Do? A recruiter is a person whose job is to find and enlist members into an organization. For many years, when people were asking themselves “what does a recruiter do?”, military recruitment would leap to mind. Corporate America adopted recruiting as a business strategy, broadening the meaning. For years, large businesses hired …
