A new survey finds that only 19 percent of employees globally perceive a strong match between how their employer represents itself and what they experience. This match highlights a credibility gap that exposes employers to reputation risk. Closing the gap provides an opportunity for employers to more successfully drive recruitment, employee engagement and retention. An […]
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It’s Out! Did Your Company Make Glassdoor’s ‘Best Places to Work’ List?
NewsThe annual pilgrimage that brings employers and CEOs from all ’round to Glassdoor’s “Best of” lists is finally here. Did your company make the Top Ten list? Here it is: Facebook Bain & Company Boston Consulting Group In-N-Out Burger Google lululemon Hubspot World Wide Technology St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Ultimate Software SAP McKinsey Keller […]
Is Your CEO on This ‘Best of’ List for 2017?
NewsDid your CEO make Comparably’s ‘Best of’ list for 2017? Here’s the list, broken down by big and smaller companies: Best CEOs, large companies Marc Benioff, SalesForce, San Francisco Brian Halligan, HubSpot, Cambridge, Mass. Brad Smith, Intuit, Mountain View, Calif. Jeff Weiner, LinkedIn, Mountain View, Calif. Satya Nadella, Microsoft, Redmond, Wash. John Pope, Jive Communications, […]
Blind App is Coming to Desktop
NewsLots of our Silicon Valley clients know about Blind, but few outside the Seattle-to-San Fran corridor know about the native mobile app that describes itself as a real-time Glassdoor. That will change with the company’s recent announcement that its service is coming to desktops. Says the company via its app: To provide you with a […]
Here Are LinkedIn’s Top 10 Startups to Work For (We Didn’t Recognize Half of Them)
NewsLinkedIn just released their top startups to work for list, based on their internal data. Per the release, “To put the list together, we analyzed billions of interactions between professionals and companies that were founded less than 10 years ago and received at least one round of VC funding. Our goal was to determine which […]
Guess Who’s Competing with Glassdoor Now?
NewsIt was just a matter of time. With the growing popularity of Glassdoor, Indeed, and other sites that provide anonymous employee reviews, it’s no surprise that the most popular professional networking site in the world is now beta testing ratings. Checkout the screenshot below and note the arrow. From the looks of it, LinkedIn is […]
Glassdoor Survey Reveals Attracting Quality Candidates is Top Challenge
NewsWith the ever-increasing competition in the job market, the problem of recruiting the best hands for the job has been identified as a major challenge for employers. The task of hiring well-informed employees have caused business owners and employers to return to the drawing table to map out new and effective ways of getting the […]
Study Finds Money Not Primary Driver of Truckers’ Job Satisfaction
NewsIn a market where talent is in high demand, professional truck drivers have pretty high job satisfaction, but it isn’t driven by pay, according to a first-of-its-kind industry study from TruckersReport.com, an industry news and professional network for truck drivers, and advanced analytics software firm OdinText. The study leveraged the OdinText advanced analytics software platform […]
Report: This is Why Glassdoor Says Its Reviews are More Balanced Than Reviews on Indeed
NewsGlassdoor today revealed a new study providing statistical evidence that its “give to get” policy reduces extremely negative and extremely positive reviews across Glassdoor. The give to get policy requires a user contributes content to Glassdoor (e.g., reviews, salary reports) in order gain access to all the rich information about companies. Unlike online review sites […]
Kununu Launches Beta Program to Strengthen Dialogue Between Employers and Potential Candidates
NewsKununu today announced a beta program to test its newest enhancements and features to better enable a two-way dialogue between employers and potential candidates. These new features give both companies and job seekers the opportunity to have their voices heard, asking and answering questions in real-time. In the last decade, the idea having reviews for […]