There are several key performance indicators used to measure and track the performance and possible direction of the U.S. labor market. Typically, one metric will explain or reinforce the changes of another data point. However, data from the first quarter of this year still leaves many a bit uncertain about where the labor market is headed.
If you like the 30,000-foot view,
The term “Great Resignation” created a lot of buzz in 2021 – and rightfully so. The level of job quits continued to trend upward throughout 2022 where the monthly average sat at 4.2 million people voluntarily quitting. The reasons spanned several professional and personal reasons, but the last couple of years have been all about quits and reshuffles. Despite organizations
Finding a perfect-fit hire depends on several different factors, ranging from the specific skills and experience that person would need to have to what kind of company culture an organization is leveraging in the search process. How organizations approach and progress through their hiring process is also impacted by various considerations.
When hiring for positions that are
A job description is one document within human resources and recruitment that is often misunderstood. Whenever the purpose and design of a tool are missed, its application effectively becomes useless. Some regard it synonymously with a job posting oroffer letter, which is not at all the case. More often, it’s not updated regularly or used consistently – which can create
Finding and retaining top talent is a main driver that continues to reshape the economic landscape and ongoing business recovery post-pandemic. The impacts are evident in employment data and U.S. labor market analysis, but it doesn’t tell the full story. To better understand and navigate this terrain, we conducted our first Hiring Pulse Survey to gather insight from business
When it comes to corporate culture, it is often difficult to define and much harder to build. Culture is commonly understood as the collective behavior, attitudes, and beliefs of individuals within an organization. It encompasses both formally stated norms and the implicit ways in which people collaborate and engage with one another.
Too often there is a gap between the
With the adjusted monthly numbers starting to settle and the larger trends from the entire year beginning to emerge, it’s a little hard not to ask. Is this good news or not?
Typically, reviewing employment data isn’t overly challenging. It’s making observations of macro and micro changes in the U.S. labor market, and taking note of where and how individual industries are
How would you describe your company culture? As a leader in your organization, you are told a positive workplace culture is essential for the future of your business. But do you know what that looks like? Moreover, if your workplace culture has room for improvement (which is likely easier to identify) do you know how and where to make changes to improve it?
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Our working lives and, more broadly, the labor market have seen several changes in the past two years. And despite foreboding research and talks of an impending recession, experts suggest the labor market is, and will remain, remarkably resilient through the new year. However, this optimism doesn’t exclude some shifts in employment and workplace trends.
Historically, the recruiting industry has hada bad rapand has long suffered from not only a lack of transparency, but innovation, prompting negative sentiments toward recruiters and search agencies alike. Unfortunately, thenegative sentimentsare often deserved. Recruiters are frequently bad-mouthed for their reliance on hard sales techniques and candidates often report
