5 Interview Preparation Tips to Help Ensure Good Candidates Aren’t Being Excluded or Eliminated for Bad Reasons Share Here are tips for prepping candidates and how doing so can be a win for everyone involved in the hiring process: Turn strengths into stories Urge candidates to prepare thoroughly before the…...
5 Ways to Keep Your Best Recruiters from Leaving
Samantha McLaren With competition for talent heating up, recruiters are becoming a hot commodity. In fact, demand for recruiting professionals has risen 63% since 2016, according to data from The Future of Recruiting Report. This means companies will have to do more to retain their best recruiters if they want…...
Half of All Companies Aren’t Providing a Positive Employee Experience. Here Are 7 Ways to Deliver One
By Lydia Abbot According to the Global Talent Trends 2020 report, 94% of talent professionals believe employee experience (EX) will be very important to the future of recruiting and HR — and 77% say they’re increasingly focused on it as a means to increase retention. Unfortunately, there may be a…...
Agencies and Organizations for Matching Vets to Jobs
There are a legion of government and nonprofit agencies and organizations that are helping veterans and transitioning military find jobs in the civilian sector. Depending on the organization, companies can help them by being a sponsor or partner, hosting events, attending their job fairs, lending their expertise, or allowing their…...
We Asked Kids Real Job Interview Questions — Here are Their (Hilarious) Answers
By Lydia Abbot Raise your hand if you love asking or being asked the following interview questions: How many golf balls can you fit on a jet? Where do you see yourself in 5 years? What would you like your salary to be? If you’re not raising your hand, we…...
Gary Vee Says These Are the Two Most Important Traits for Leaders
As a kid, Gary Vaynerchuk had wild success with a lemonade stand and a side hustle trading baseball cards, he told today's Talent Connect audience. Then his father, a Soviet immigrant with a liquor store in New Jersey, put him to work. But not before giving Gary his first piece of business advice. “Before…...
Why Candidate Experience Should Start with the Job Description — and Continue Well After the Hire Date
By Lou Adler I’ve been roundly criticized for saying that improving the candidate experience is a waste of time, money, and resources. But while close, that’s not exactly what I said. To set the record straight, I believe that providing an extraordinary candidate experience for serious and well-qualified candidates is…...
LinkedIn’s Head of Diversity Shares Her Playbook for Creating a More Inclusive Workforce
Bruce Anderson Rosanna Durruthy says that diversity is often seen as a series of checklists: Do this, do that, and then do more of this. But as the head of global diversity, inclusion, and belonging at LinkedIn, Rosanna prefers to see diversity and inclusion as a team sport — that…...
Wait, Where Did Our New Hire Go?
Sue Shellenbarger (WSJ) An abrupt change of heart after saying yes to a job can have career repercussions years later—here’s how to navigate this delicate decision It should be any job seeker’s dream: You’re looking for a job and three offers land in your lap. Or maybe you’re not even…...
60 Business Buzzwords to Delete From Your Vocabulary
Felicia Sullivan and Jack Fehr Business buzzwords have become commonplace, weaving their way into our everyday vernacular and spurring the creation of websites and software programs designed to translate corporate lingo into plain English. In some offices, clever employees place “jargon jars” in conference rooms, where colleagues have to deposit…...