LinkedIn announced the launch of Pages today. They say the new offering represents “the next generation of LinkedIn Company and Career Pages.” Most notably, users can enhance their Page with Career Pages, giving employers a way to engage potential job candidates with a Life tab and a Jobs tab that provide a customized look into a […]
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How You Feel About Colin Kaepernick Can Impact Your Recruiting Efforts
NewsA company’s stance on controversial issues—think Nike’s Colin Kaepernick endorsement, or Levi Strauss’s statement on gun control—has an impact on the company’s ability to attract and retain employees (for better or for worse), according to new research from the Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp). The i4cp survey of over 500 business professionals revealed: A whopping […]
Here’s Why Employers Are Now Reconsidering Tattooed Candidates
NewsVirtually all of us remember Maui – a popular Disney’s Moana character – who had his body tattooed as a symbol of the exciting life exploits he had experienced in the story. Now, imagine yourself as a parent and HR professional; and Maui just came in for a scheduled job interview with the enormous amount […]
Meet The Startup Helping Companies Pay For Childcare
NewsWith their new partnership with Helpr, employees of such companies as Snap and Vice are on the verge of having their childcare costs sponsored by their employers. Over time, millennial women have been faced with two significant childbirth-related fears; the fear of their career getting adversely affected, and the financial burden that comes with childbirth. The […]
LinkedIn CEO: This Is The One Question Every Recruiter Must Ask a Job Candidate
NewsThere have been debates over time on the kind of questions to ask interviewees by interviewers, which will determine whether they are fit for the job in one or all ramifications. The debates just even got interesting, after the latest contribution by Jeff Weiner. In a recent interview with the LinkedIn CEO, he gave an […]
Meet the CEO Who Spends 33% of Her Time Recruiting
NewsCEO Mathilde Collin had been a victim of lies and secrets at previous organizations, so she decided to be transparent with her current staff. Is your CEO a mysterious figure? The staff at email collaboration software provider Front know everything CEO and co-founder Collin does every day because they have access to her calendar. Collin says […]
To Sit or Stand at Work? That is the Question
NewsWellness of employees has always been an important topic in the field of Human Resource Management (HRM). Ergonomics is one of the significant factors in HRM, it is a system of designing a workplace environment based on a combination of psychological and physiological principles. The main purpose is to provide a physical environment which is […]
Survey: Here Are The U.S. Cities with the Greatest Concentration of Happy Employees
NewsKununu recently pulled its annual Happiness Index for the last 12 months (July 2017 – June 2018) – the analysis was based on 82,854 employee reviews located in the the 50 most populous US cities. To determine the U.S. cities with the greatest concentration of happy employees, we took a look at four key factors […]
Woah! How Many Workers Fail to Take a Lunch Break Each Workday?
NewsA new survey says more employees are scarfing down a sandwich rather than leisurely dining on dim sum. “Take Back the Lunch Break” from Tork says 27 percent of the 1,600 survey participants don’t take a lunch break each workday. “If you think about athletes, there’s halftime for a reason, right? Because halfway through any endeavor, […]
Taking a Look into Walmart’s First-Ever Employment Branding Campaign
NewsWalmart’s Annual Shareholders Week was held in Northwest Arkansas this year. On May 30, it was announced that the country’s largest private employer is launching it’s first-ever employer branding campaign. The most attractive part of this campaign is the message of making college affordable. The campaign has proposed that Walmart will sponsor the college education […]