It might surprise you to hear a recruiter tout the advantages of advertising your open jobs on social media, but here we are. The fact is, in today’s market, a recruiter might be your biggest advocate, but you should use every medium at your disposal to network for the right candidates. At the very least, expect candidates to peruse your social media profiles [...]
Florida gained over 479,000 jobs in 2021, an increase of 5.6%. Nationally, the number of jobs increased by 4.5% in 2021. Plenty of interesting data attached! 2021.December.Florida
97% of employees would learn a new skill if given the opportunity, according to a recent Gartner report. And that’s good, because Gartner also reports that the number of skills required for any particular job is increasing by the year. A tech job that once required 15 skills might now call for 20 or more. As employees are expected to know more and [...]
Read the recruiter rags these days, and they’re full of advice for us Executive Recruiters. They’re saying to be choosy about the clients we work with, and focus only on the ones that are the best prospects for the smaller, pickier pools of candidates in the workforce today. Personally, I’m not aiming to get any snobbier about which companies I support with my [...]
People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything. - Thomas Sowell Remember the good ol’ days of 3 meetings a day? Before the pandemic, that was the average for most professionals. Today, that number has increased to 5, according to at least one study. Why the extra two meetings? And even more alarming is the fact that these meetings take [...]
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 [...]
According to at least one survey I’ve read recently, base-pay averages across industries are expected to rise by 3.9% this year. Partly this is due to hyper-speedy inflation of late, but more importantly, it’s due to the talent shortage. If you’re planning to hire this year, getting competitive with salaries and benefits is going to be one major advantage you can secure. Recruiters [...]
“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 [...]
“Tim, what can I do to up my odds of getting a great job?” Ah, the eternal question. You’ve probably already heard loads about the importance of using the right keywords in your resume in order to get past resume-scanning applications. You’ve possibly even heard this from me. And it’s true, keywords are important. But keywords won’t magically land you the job. What [...]
Things have really changed, and work culture is not exempt from that. The massive shifts brought about by the pandemic have influenced what’s important in a positive company culture in three main ways: Vector concept of searching for professional stuff 1 The concept of “employee belonging” is central to a positive work culture, signaling that employees feel a deep sense of [...]