Improve Your Employer Brand with 2019’s In-Demand Benefits, pt. 1
HR is getting some mixed messages about what part of a job package is most important to employees. While salary, in most cases, still comes out on top--according to Glassdoor, 67% of employees say this is most important to them--benefits and location, at 63% and 59%...
The Crucial Impact of Workplace Diversity and Inclusion on Engagement and Retention
With the high cost of turnover well-documented, companies large and small who are interested in a diverse, engaged workforce are turning to Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) as an investment in employee retention. Many companies are both hiring and conducting skills...
Talkin’ About My Generation: Here’s Why You Should Hire Older Workers
Matt Self, author of the article "Workplace Diversity Means Employees of All Ages," took the words right out of TDG's collective mouth when he began: "Let’s play word association. What comes to mind when you think of 'workplace diversity'?" Many people would think of...
Do You Have Realistic Expectations About Hiring New Grads?
Ah, graduation day. Once all the mortarboards have all fallen to the ground, there's a new challenge ahead of these recent grads: Finding what is possibly their first real-world job. Recent college graduates apply to more entry-level positions on LinkedIn in June than...
What Can HR Do to Reduce Employee Turnover? Here’s an Honest Look
As you likely know, the name of the retention game is hiring and onboarding engaged employees. In business, some turnover is inevitable, but the key idea is that low engagement doesn't have to be. Since we can't address the problem of retention until we understand it,...
How HR Can Improve Retention by Motivating Employees
When you want to do a nice thing for someone at work, what can you do? You could compliment them at the water cooler, prepare them a coffee or a batch of cookies, publicly recognize their great performance on a project—the list goes on, but different methods work for...
What Can HR Do to Reduce Employee Turnover? Here’s an Honest Look
As you likely know, the name of the retention game is hiring and onboarding engaged employees. In business, some turnover is inevitable, but the key idea is that low engagement doesn't have to be. Since we can't address the problem of retention until we understand it,...
How HR Can Improve Retention by Motivating Employees
When you want to do a nice thing for someone at work, what can you do? You could compliment them at the water cooler, prepare them a coffee or a batch of cookies, publicly recognize their great performance on a project—the list goes on, but different methods work for...
3 Reasons Candidates Are Ghosting You and How to Prevent It
They say love hurts, and so does ghosting! This is especially true in the current job market when HR departments are between a rock and a hard place with fierce competition for top talent—resulting in the hiring process taking longer than usual and costing more too....
Here’s How to Compete for Top Talent in a Labor Shortage
The U.S. economy and labor force with it are going strong in 2019. Early estimates for March say that 170,000 jobs were produced -- after the possible anomaly of only 20,000 in February -- while unemployment remains historically low at 3.8%. A strong economy is great...