“What new worker shortage?” This is the question you might get from a typical small business owner when asked how they’re coping with the sudden lack of candidates for open jobs. For a lot of these companies, it’s ALWAYS been hard to hire. So what can bigger businesses learn from small businesses who’ve had to be scrappy in the fact of hiring shortages? [...]
So - where have all the manners gone? There used to be a certain decorum to the job hunt. It involved cover letters with respectable fonts and graciously crafted thank-you notes, or at least emails. Some hiring managers I speak with bemoan the loss of these little formalities among the candidates they see, while others don’t think they were ever important, to begin [...]
Here’s a list of the most commonly misspelled words on resumes, according to the Guardian: ✖️ Experienced ✖️ Successful ✖️ Counselled ✖️ Professional ✖️ Responsible ✖️ Behaviour ✖️ Judgement Of course, the Guardian is a British publication, which means if you spell “behavior” as “behaviour,” you’re either outing yourself as British — or you’re misspelling the word. Same thing for counselled (British) vs counseled (American). And there’s an argument to be [...]
“The office should be a magnet, not a mandate.” This is a terrific quote delivered by Pegasystems CEO Alan Trefler, whose approach to getting employees back to the office is about attraction, not compulsion. For Trefler, it all comes down to culture, which is why he works so closely with his Chief People Officer, Katherine Parente. The two talk daily to make decisions [...]
“Work hard, play hard” is the old cowboy ethos that pervades a lot of companies to this day. But when you use that phrase while trying to recruit talent, it doesn’t always land the way you want it to. A lot of candidates, in fact, will take it to mean that you don’t encourage work-life balance. Many of us take the phrase as [...]
Open floor plans in offices used to be considered the epitome of modern design. No longer. Thanks to a pandemic — and maybe a little bit to the fact that a lot of people hated the lack of privacy — cubicles and private offices are in fact cool again. For a while, hot desking seemed like it was going to be the ticket. But while [...]
You inquired about a new job and now you’re wondering when and how to follow up. It’s a big conversation, but here are the basic golden rules: 1) If you haven’t heard whether your resume was received, follow up in a few days by email. If you got an email confirming that you applied — which usually happens if the company uses an automatic resume [...]
Going out for dinner with the family or for date night this weekend? Service at your favorite restaurants not quite what it used to be? According to a recent study by the National Restaurant Association, 65% of restaurant operators said their restaurant does not have enough employees to support its existing customer demand. Further, of those operators, 62% said their restaurant is mor [...]
Hiring managers are faced with hiring people from four different generations at this unique point in time: Baby Boomers still in the workforce, Gen X, Millennials, and the newest members of the workforce, Gen Z. They have wildly different expectations of the workplace and culture, and varying approaches to the job search. Workplace differences exist, such as technology application gaps, where Millennials and [...]
"Take this job and shove it." ~ Johnny Paycheck When you’re fed up with your job and you know you're moving on, what’s the best move? For Steven Slater, a flight attendant with JetBlue, the answer was: Quit over the intercom, in front of a plane full of passengers waiting to debark, and then dramatically slide down the emergency escape chute at JFK [...]