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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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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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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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Director of Client Acquisition is New WBEC-West Forum Representative
Denver, CO, November 23, 2022 – TalenTrust Director of Client Acquisition, Erin Dougan, has been selected to be a Forum Chair for the Womens Business Enterprise Council – West Region (WBEC-West) Forum Chairs are WBEs that volunteer their time to represent each WBEC-West Region. Erin will...
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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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