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Loose Lips May Save Your Ship
The adage, “Loose lips sink ships,” kept people from spreading rumors or unhappy truths about things that could harm morale or jeopardize safety during World War II. In the decades since, the sentiment has taken hold in our workplace cultures, limiting transparency and, especially, making it taboo...
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First Step in Proactive Hiring: Build a Talent Pool
“Great vision without great people is irrelevant.” This critical bit of truth from Jim Collins’ book Good to Great is the wisdom that guides our most successful companies. When you’re developing your recruitment strategies, it’s important to remember that the talented people you need to achieve...
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Job Vacancies Are Costing You More Than You Think
If employers calculated the full costs of leaving jobs vacant, they would immediately rethink the practice. During the pandemic and recession, companies survived by squeezing costs, mostly on labor. That cost-cutting mindset persists as organizations spend less on recruitment and its associated...
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How to Hire Proactively in a Reactive Market
If every unemployed person in this country took a job, over 2 million jobs would still go unfilled, according the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. We have more than 8.9 million open positions and just 6.5 million unemployed workers. This includes one million women who’ve gone missing from the labor market...
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Strategic Recruitment
What is Employee Experience and Why Does it Matter in 2023?
The reason most employees leave boils down to this: You haven’t put your people first. It’s not the money, the perks, or the promotion. It’s all three and so much more that create the essential emotional connection people are looking
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Strategic Recruitment
Thinking Short-term is Being Short-sighted
Kathleen Quinn Votaw & ITR Economics The quest for immediate profits and quick payouts over the past couple of decades is neither the right nor the most profitable way to operate a business. “Short-termism” runs counter to business sustainability and employee wellbeing—the hallmarks of today’s...
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Strategic Recruitment
Quiet Returns Reflect Engaged Employees
“Quiet returns” are a sign of an engaged culture. When disengaged employees show up at work they undermine possibility and business potential. These are the people who quit quietly and stay, secretly protesting burnout, stress, or other abuses of work-life
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Strategic Recruitment
Engaged Employees Don't Quietly Quit
We’ve experienced “quiet” or “ghost” quitting by disgruntled workers over the years, but it has become common enough recently to earn an official name. “Quiet quitting” means that you still do your job, but limit your effort to the minimum
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It’s Not Empathy vs. Accountability: for Great Leaders It’s Both
I empathize with leaders who can’t quite adjust to the evolutionary change making today’s workplaces unrecognizable from what they used to be. Never before have leaders had to face so much uncertainty and challenge, or opportunity and possibility. And all without the confidence of using the age-old...
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