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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, four million jobs would still go unfilled, according the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. We have more than 10 million open positions and just 5.7 million unemployed workers. This includes one million women who’ve gone missing from the labor market...
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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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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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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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Strategic Recruitment
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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