How to Calculate the Average Cost of Hiring a New Employee
The hiring game has become a minefield in recent years. As businesses try to survive and grow in an ever-evolving working world, recruiting strategies are hampered by skills shortages, budget constraints and change management in the wake of new technologies. Companies hiring rely on lots…
Find Your Career Match and Make the Most of Your Skills
Take a moment to think about how you came into your current job. Was it by default? Did your parents help you get the job? Was it the only company that responded to your application? If you went to college, a trade school or university,…
Modern Hiring Solutions: Being an Employer in 2020
Twenty years ago, being an employer meant something entirely different from what it means today. Even 5 years ago! Work and jobs are different, the tools that people use to get work are different, and job seekers’ attitude to work has changed a great deal….
Closing the Skills Gap: How to Identify Skills Gaps in the Workplace
During the 1960s, the idea of corporate training was sold to companies who realized that their employees, at all levels, had a skills gap. So, what is a skills gap and what are the solutions that companies hiring need for the future of work? We…
Finding the Right Technology Partners for Our Hiring Hub
Whether you’re just starting a business as a solopreneur or you’re the CEO of a global enterprise, you’ll face the same fundamental business challenges. It’s a hyper-competitive global economy. You have to be a creative visionary, master of strategy and a leader worth following, and…
The Future of Work is Here Whether You Like It or Not
When you add the word “future” to the word “work” in a sentence, people typically visualize robots. Your mind may drift to a utopian existence. Life is filled with endless time to do what you want to do and the robot does everything else –…
How Does a Job Matching Platform Use Artificial Intelligence to Find the Perfect Candidate?
In the last five years, the term “match” has dominated digital platforms and steered the start-up boom. When we see the terms “artificial intelligence” and “advanced algorithms”, the term “match” often follows shortly after. Every on-demand platform, marketplace or service-based portal has a component of…
Create a Company Culture: Be Sold on Culture or Sell to the Highest Bidder
Culture is one of the most misused and overspun words in the business world. We blame company culture when things go wrong, praise it when they go right, and curse it when dysfunction bubbles and it causes us to buy, acquire or give the belief…
Job Seeker Tips: 30-Second Elevator Pitch
It can be awkward and embarrassing to introduce yourself to someone new in person. And even more so when you’re speaking directly into your smartphone camera! It’s especially tricky when you know you need to keep it short. Creating a 30-second elevator pitch is a perfect way…
How to Recruit Candidates for a Job Using a Skills-Matching Platform
Are you continually disappointed by the quality of candidates that you’re receiving from recruitment agencies? This is a common frustration that we hear from employers. How about recruitment solutions that promise the world, but don’t deliver the goods? Job boards that endlessly send you resumes…