As we enter a new decade with the hiring landscape tougher than ever, updating your hiring process to meet the challenges posed by candidate shortages and … Read more
There’s An Untapped Pool of Skilled People You Don’t Even Consider
As we step into a new year and a new decade, HR and talent acquisition professionals will be faced with a slew of both new challenges and new opportunities … Read more
Military Spouses Are An Overlooked Asset
“Over the course of my husband’s 14 years in the Army, he was stationed in three different places around the world. With each relocation, my children and I … Read more
The War for Talent Is Now a Supply Chain Problem
When Cognizant, the global IT services company, realized it couldn’t hire data scientists fast enough to keep up with its needs, it started training … 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
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
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
5 Steps to Knowing and Keeping Your Best People
At the end of the first quarter of 2017, 45% of small businesses reported that they were unable to find qualified applicants to fill job openings. Our own … Read more
Hiring Wisdom: It Pays to Hire Ex-Cons
Yet another sign of the robust demand for workers is that more US employers are hiring applicants with criminal records. At 4.3%, the unemployment rate is … Read more
How a CRM Can Help You Hire Faster and Better
Today’s labor market has become candidate-driven. With multiple job opportunities to choose from and easy access to information about companies and their … Read more
This Is Your Battle Plan For the War For Talent Next Year
The new year is already shaping up to be a year like no other and all of the changes are going to have a real impact on the economy and, in particular, the … Read more
Your Next Hire Should Be In High School
The skills gap is growing between candidates entering the workforce with a traditional college degree, and candidates recruiters are looking to hire. If … Read more
Why Engagement is Important for Contingent Workers, Too
For many years, temporary workers came and went without anyone really learning their names or even acknowledging their existence in offices around the … Read more
It Will Take a Cultural Change to Really Deal With America’s Aging Workforce
The American labor force is getting older and will get smaller. Already, one in three American workers is over the age of 50. By 2019, every Baby Boomer — … Read more
When You Hire From the Outside, Does It Mean Your Organization Failed?
Henry Ward, the CEO of eShares, wrote a post on Medium recently titled How to Hire. It’s a great piece from an executive point of view regarding the … Read more
The War on Talent Isn’t Easing, But More Are Looking For “Their Next Opportunity”
LinkedIn just released its 2015 Talent Trends report, compiling responses from more than 1,600 professionals in the United States and Canada. Here is a … Read more
Just What Really Is “Top Talent,” Anyway?
Editor’s Note: Readers sometimes ask about past TLNT articles, so every Friday we republish a Classic TLNT post. The business community (and that … Read more
People Quit Jobs For Careers, But That’s Also Why They Take Them
Money is important, but career opportunities trump all other reasons for changing jobs, and that’s as true in Mumbai as it is in Manhattan. LinkedIn asked … Read more
There’s No Talent Shortage If You Can Poach From Your Competitors
First of two parts Recruiting is just like fishing. You may think that there is a shortage of fish when the real problem is where you fish and what bait … Read more