More than perhaps any other line of business, HR folks have had to adapt in the last few years. As we round the bend into year three of the pandemic moving towards an endemic stage, what does this look like? According to HR Dive, there are a few big trends happening right now: 🔹 Workplace and workstyle flexibility are now the normal mode for [...]
In the flow of your busy day, you get a LinkedIn notification that someone has InMail messaged you. It’s a message from a recruiter you do not know. “Yeah right,” you think. “I’ll get to that after I clear my inbox, catch up on Slack, and sit through all these Zooms.” You never get to it. If you’re not even looking to change [...]
What are the best jobs in 2022? It depends how you’re measuring. US News and World Report doesn’t hesitate to rank healthcare roles the highest. When listing their “100 Best Jobs” across industries, healthcare roles constitute four out of ten, with nurse practitioner as the very most desirous healthcare job. Above that? Information security analyst, a job I’m not surprised to see in [...]
There’s always a lot of negative if not downright scary news to ponder. But occasionally you’ll find a nugget of positivity in there, if you look hard enough. Here’s one such nugget: Heading into the early part of 2022, 74% of people claim they feel like they have control over their professional lives. Part of this, of course, is because the war for [...]
Most people can agree that the traditional “command and control” idea of leadership is outdated. The best leaders today are cooperative, communicative, and transparent. Leaders are now expected to be more agile, more innovative, more collaborative. That’s why I was surprised to read in Harvard Business Review that in reality, the top-down approach to leadership actually worked really well for some leaders during [...]
So how to stay visible when your face is on a screen in a room full of actual bodies? Harvard Business Review suggests remote workers “overindex on creating perceptions of rock solid reliability.” In other words, overdeliver on the amount of work you do. But expecting remote workers to bend over backwards to prove they’re being productive is what got us to this [...]
Want to know how your employees are feeling? Just look at them. Oh wait, you can’t look at them because you’re all working remotely? This has been the conundrum of a lot of leaders in the last year or two. And they — and perhaps you — have come up with plenty of new techniques for gauging both worker wellbeing and productivity. Things like: ✔️  Creating [...]
 “Tim, can you shoot me over some resumes?” This is a question I field frequently from hiring managers and HR teams in my role as a recruiter. They’re looking to me to save them time, so I do the initial recruiting to find the best possible candidates. How do I present my top choices? With a resume. But while a resume is [...]
Like they all say, your resume should tout all your achievements. Lead with success stories. But what if your measure of success has just been being really good at your day-to-day job? How to make that stand out on a resume? The best line of defense — or is it offense? —is always quantifiable metrics. Any numbers you can provide as evidence to your skills [...]