Retaining Employees in 2024
Essential Strategies for Employee Satisfaction and Loyalty It is challenging enough to recruit top talent in 2024, however, retaining employees is an even heavier burden in today’s workplace. While the great resignation of 2021-23 appears to be behind us, people are still leaving their jobs at an alarming rate, especially in blue-collar roles in manufacturing, […]
Post-COVID Recruiting Trends
By Loyd McIntosh Now that 2020 is behind us and, with any luck, the worst of the coronavirus pandemic is on the wane, people will be anxious to get out of the house and back to work. That means everything will be going back to normal soon, correct? Not so fast! Even with people returning […]
What is a Worker Desert?
What is a worker desert and how are companies adapting? By Lee Hurley It’s not a little ironic that a good economy has caused such a challenging issue: finding qualified employees to fill open jobs. The term “worker desert” is now being used to describe the problem. According to varying reports, there are more than […]
How to Attract Talent in Today’s Economy
By Rick Geiger It’s not 2011 anymore. Shocking, right? It seems like just yesterday it was easy to attract talent with skilled, educated, and motivated job hiding around every corner. Hiring was fun. The fish were jumping into the boat! Now? Not so much. So, what happened? Well, you know what happened. The economy improved, […]
How will automation affect future hiring needs?
By Lee Hurley We all know that automation will affect our jobs in the future. What we don’t know is how it will affect our future hiring needs. We can offer educated guesses and we can look at the past as a way to predict the future but technology today moves faster than a Japanese […]
Can A Job Reference Be Too Good?
By Joe Crowe When hiring, a factor in determining an applicant’s quality is his or her job references. When you contact them, ideally you hear good things about the applicant. But what happens if the reference provides only great comments, maybe too great? Is it possible for a job reference to be too good? The […]