Strategic Recruitment
External vs. Internal Hiring: Are Your Best Options in Front of You?
Approximately 9.6 million jobs are available throughout the United States but only 5.7 million people are jobseekers. If you have openings for various positions in your organization, your best candidates may be your current employees who want to move up. It is time to look at the people already...
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June Employment Report
On Thursday July 6th, the U.S. Labor Department released their June Employment Report. This month shows continued increases in job creation, although less than forecasted. With low unemployment and over 3 million more jobs than job seekers, recruitment and retention remain top of mind for business...
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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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April Employment Report
On Friday May 5th, the U.S. Labor Department released their April Employment Report. Despite widespread expectations for a recession, the economy is still chugging along, and the tight labor market continues.
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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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TalenTrust’s CEO Named to the 2023 Colorado Titan 100
Titan CEO and headline sponsor Wipfli LLP are pleased to announce Kathleen Quinn Votaw, Founder and CEO of TalenTrust, author, and speaker as a 2023 Colorado Titan 100. The Titan 100 program recognizes Colorado’s Top 100 CEO’s & C-level executives. They are the area’s most accomplished business...
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Employee Experience Metrics Lead to Satisfied Employees and Revenue Growth
Employee Experience metrics (EX) are a central indicator of how satisfied employees are at your organization. Gathering EX metrics can be difficult, as employees may be hesitant to disclose information about how they feel about the company due to fears of retribution (even if these fears are...
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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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