Recruiting

Managers and HR professionals are adopting new tools and benefits to help them recruit and retain top talent.

It takes more than one executive to make an impact in the face of institutional pushback.

Some itchy-footed employees may have put off their job searches until “after the pandemic.” Now it seems clear there’s no point in waiting.

More than 200,000 candidates have already been connected with employers.

More than a third of the U.S. workforce are freelance and contract workers.

Many economists expect to see job prospects, and economic growth, improve in the coming months as vaccinations pick up and virus concerns ease further.

As much as people say they want a leveled playing field, they tend to chafe when called upon to relinquish their own privileges.

We want HR professionals to be more reflective of these diverse populations that are increasingly making up our workforce,” says Wendi Safstrom, executive director of the SHRM Foundation.

Arrogance, naiveté and that chief suspect, procrastination, can all undermine best laid advancement plans, writes recruiter Mark Elzweig.

Organizations need to open themselves up to news ways of thinking about hiring and including disabled employees.

An organization connects vision-impaired job seekers with employment at companies looking to diversify their workforce.

A resilient, positive, healthy employee with a fighting spirit is one of the most significant assets for any organization.

Blackstone Launchpad will add 45 colleges and universities in the next five years for a total of 75 to their student entrepreneurship initiative.

Employers have big plans to recruit more workers in 2021. But deciding where they’ll work is the most recent workplace debate.

In the coming months, as more Americans get inoculated and virus cases fall, economic activity is poised to resume and job cuts may decline further.

Gap is promising to start new programs and expand existing ones in order to increase representation in its workforce.

Almost half of employees plan to look for a new job this year and 82% of employers plan to make new hires, according to Monster’s most recent job report.

Female employees now make 26% less than male employees do, an improvement from 27% a year ago.

“This is the decade of the working family,” says Cleo CEO SarahJane Sacchetti. Benefits that support mental health and special needs will be a top priority in 2021.

A professional community website launched a free recruitment platform that helps candidates learn more about companies they’re interested in.