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
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
"Post," yes. "Pray," not for talent.
Talent sourcing at a time when jobs way outnumber candidates is the first critical step in a rigorous, strategic recruitment process. It may begin with writing and posting a job description but praying that your ideal candidate sees your ad won’t help you find the top talent you need. And yet, a...
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Strategic Recruitment
Best Ways to Show Your People Come First
It makes sense, backed by a multitude of studies, that happy employees are more productive.
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Strategic Recruitment
Recruitment is a Sales Process Step #1: Finding Quality Candidates
Recruitment is a priority equal to all your other top business priorities. Like them, it requires a strategy. For years, we’ve advised companies that they should think of recruitment as a sales process. For most leaders, that takes a different mindset. In today’s competitive job market, where...
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Strategic Recruitment
Wading into Another Year of Unknowns
Most leaders understand that a positive culture is critical to success. But too few know how to build and sustain the human-centric workplaces employees not only look for from employers today but refuse to work for any that lack humanity. The pace of change and challenge over the past few years...
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Building Faith to Survive the Great Resignation
We are in the throes of a “great resignation” that’s bigger than anyone expected. According to the Department of Labor, a record four million workers quit in April alone, and Gallup research finds that 48 percent of our working population is currently searching actively for a job or watching for...
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Strategic Recruitment
How to stem the tide of turnover
A “title wave of turnover,” a “turnover tsunami,” call it what you like, but 52 percent of employees plan to leave their jobs in 2021, a 43 percent increase over the two previous years, according to Achievers’ data. Most people quit or stay for reasons related to your workplace environment....
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