Today in the US, it’s Veteran’s Day. And it brings some of the best job news for veterans in years. From an unemployment rate that at one time … Read more
Laid Off Workers Are Gun Shy, So Attract Them With a Positive Culture
The number of displaced workers reached 6.8 million from 2015 to 2017, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ most recent displacement report. Though … Read more
Workers Staying Put Will Make Jobs Even Harder to Fill
Is talk of a global economic slowdown beginning to worry American workers? That’s one explanation for a Gartner survey finding that a majority of US … Read more
What You Need to Do If a Layoff Comes
In rapidly changing markets, layoffs are a possibility in any industry, at any time, and are bound to send shock waves through an organization. … Read more
How Small Businesses Can Win In the War for Talent
Small businesses face a common challenge. According to the 2018 Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses Summit report, 70% of small businesses struggle to … Read more
Don’t Overlook Candidates Because They Have an Alternative Education
More students are pursuing higher education than ever before — but at a higher cost. The result? The national student debt burden is approaching $1.5 … Read more
Comp in 2018: Some Raises, But Bonuses Will Be More Common
Location. Location. Location. At PayScale, we analyze what matters when determining pay, from education to industry to skills to management … Read more
To Fill Those Tough Jobs, HR Needs to Think Globally
Between efforts to build a wall and limiting work visas, immigration is a political hot potato in the U.S. But that’s no reason HR can avoid it. In … Read more
How to Use Relocation to Win the War For Talent
In the past couple of years, we’ve been able to count on at least one piece of good news each month: steadily dropping unemployment rates. But a low … Read more
3 Ways to Make Your Recruiting Efforts Stand Out
The US labor market is tightening. Job openings are at a record high, and there is uncertainty over whether there will be enough skilled workers to fill … Read more
A Look at the Big Picture of the Future of Work
Maybe in your particular vision of the future of work, you imagine factories full of robots, automating commonplace tasks, while human beings orchestrate … Read more
8 Trends and Challenges Facing Search Firms (and Pricing Is One of Them)
Note: This is the first of a two-part article on what the future holds for external recruiters and executive search, and for the clients they serve. It is … Read more
Time to Fill Drops, But All Indications Are It’s a Blip
It took an average of 27.6 working days to fill a job in May, according to the latest data from career site publisher DHI Group. That’s the fewest … Read more
Feel Secure In Your Job? Then You’re Just Waiting to Be Ambushed
I worked all those years, coming to work every day, doing a great job. Each year there was a raise and eventually more responsibility. I went home at the … Read more
Best of TLNT 2017: The War for Talent Is About to Go Nuclear. Here’s Why and What You Can Do
Editor’s Note: It’s an annual tradition for TLNT to count down the most popular posts of the previous 12 months. We’re reposting each of the top 30 … Read more
If You’re Not Using Social Media to Build Your Gen Z Brand, You’re Missing Out
The proliferation of internet capable devices, global internet access and social media has been creating a virtual space that is still relatively untapped … Read more
Before You Can DisruptHR, Disrupt You
“The way we do work is not the same as it used to be,” Christoff Boshoff says to his DisruptHR audience knows. “Yet we’re stuck in … Read more
In a Candidate-Driven Market, Candidate Experience Matters
The monthly unemployment rate has been trending down for years and is now at a 16 year low. This trend is especially good for jobseekers, even as it makes … Read more
Why We Should Embrace the Millennial Mindset
Millennials. Employers have denounced them as a generation who require constant affirmation in order to get hard work out of them. But what if we have it … Read more
Social Responsibility Can Be Your Secret Recruiting Weapon
Since 2015, millennials have made up the largest generation in the U.S. workforce. With the next class of millennials just graduating college, many … Read more