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…
How to Advertise a Job Opening Using pepelwerk
Welcome to the modern way of hiring quality talent for your business: skills-matching. What’s the big deal? Well, finding suitable candidates for your job openings isn’t about resume dumps or operating a scattershot approach to recruitment and then hoping something sticks. You need a modern…
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….
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…
Open to Change
“If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” A phrase that should be thrown out the window for decision makers. Companies that base their vendor relationships on this phrase get left behind in the modern world. Holding onto the status quo leaves room for innovators and…
Best Business Practices: Let HR Cover Your Blind Side
If you’ve seen the hit movie The Blind Side, featuring Quinton Aaron and Sandra Bullock, you’re probably familiar with the story of Michael Oher and the principles around peripheral vision. The film’s title is taken from the quarterback’s “dead zone”, which the left tackle must be aware of…
Talent Recruitment: The Business of People
With 25 years’ experience in the people business, I’ve learned a thing or two about our working world and talent recruitment. As my responsibilities in HR and recruiting have spanned the globe, I can tell you that hiring in the U.S. vs China vs Africa…
Remote Employment: The Boss of Product Management on Working Remotely
In this blog and video, we interview Amanda Imperial, the Boss of Product and Project Management. Amanada talks about what her work means to her and how pepelwerk will change the way we connect to work. She discusses her previous work history, remote employment opportunities…
The HR Strategies & Vision that Inspired Pepelwerk
In two decades of managing, operating, and focusing on People Strategies for businesses of all sizes and industries, there isn’t much that I haven’t seen. In my 25-year tenure in Corporate HR Departments, I’ve seen the Human Resource industry distinguish itself, engaging in important social…
How to Overcome the Job Application Process
Let’s face it, the tasks laid out for job seekers are challenging, especially for those straight out of high school. A simple online search brings up hundreds of results. After an hour of scanning what feels like an endless list, you try to narrow down…