Hiring in the post millennial environment will be largely influenced by the current trends in the industry, new technology, and evolving regulations. It has been well established that the traits of the millennial generation have made a lasting impact on employment in the United States and abroad. To a large extent, the millennial attitudes were [...]
Experts across the HR industry are predicting that contract labor will become just as common as regular employment. In countries such as South Korea, contract workers make up about 40% of the workforce. Current trends and statistics confirm that contract labor is on the rise and that there is no letting up on it. It [...]
Here is the situation. Your organization is growing rapidly and despite all the efforts to squeeze extra productivity out of the current workforce, you need to expand your capabilities and output. Building a new team from scratch is a monumental task full of challenges and unknown variables. There are many processes involved in building a [...]
When we talk about employee retention, we're talking about the specific length of time a given employee (or group of employees) stays in their job. Here are some facts: Average annual turnover across all industries was 15.7% in 2014. Employee turnover has been gradually increasing every year since 2011. The American Management Association (AMA) estimates the [...]
Hiring based on only skills and experience is a common mistake many businesses make. It’s the section of the resume that recruiters pay the most attention to and often make the most mistakes. We look into how skills and experience are overrated, what the risks are of giving it too much weight, and the other [...]
In this article, we will examine the importance of engineering your hiring process - and how to do it. What is engineering, anyways? In any business it is important to engineer things like products, services, and processes. But what do we really mean when we talk about "engineering" things? Dictionary.com gives us the following definition of [...]
Job Benchmarking Defined Job Benchmarking is the process of creating a point of reference against which a particular job may be compared or assessed. Most human resources departments perform job benchmarking on some level, and this generally precedes the writing of job descriptions. Most of us are familiar with reviewing such job descriptions. They generally describe how the job is done and [...]
