đ The numbers are in and the landscape of Q2 2023 witnessed a fascinating contrast between private equity and startup funding. While private equity experienced a slight decline in exits, startup funding faced its share of challenges. Let's check out the data from PitchBook and Crunchbase and look into the dynamics at play. đđ đ According to a July 26 report by PitchBook, [...]
Want to find better employees? Offer better benefits. Because while benefits donât often make or break a contract with a potential hire, they are certainly a factor in a hiring market where talent has a lot of choices. For this reason, according to a recent national study, 88% of HR managers confirm that theyâve upgraded their employee benefits since the pandemic began. Theyâre [...]
As a hiring manager, a recruiter can save you a lot of time and effort in the early rounds of hiring. We specialize in screening candidates with initial communication. But what exactly do we find out? Every recruiter is different, and I can only speak for myself, but as a recruiter for the past 25+ years, I think this is a pretty good [...]
A few years ago, if you had told me that you wanted to land a job as a âChief Metaverse Officer,â I would have thought youâd gone down a sci-fi k-hole. This morning, I did a quick search of my network and found more than 110 such executives listed on LinkedIn (1st, 2nd & 3rd connections). Since my practice & network focus on [...]
Where 10 or 15 years ago, employers focused on attracting employees with âperks,â today, companies are focused on using their âemployer brandâ to grab talent. But while onsite yoga classes and free espresso were relatively easy perks to procure and explain, employer brand is a much larger concept thatâs harder to explain and control. As a recruiter, I like the way Harvard Business [...]
Excited about being back to in-office work? A lot of the leaders I work with in my role are. But not everyone shares your enthusiasm. With social distancing mandates ending, people are returning to the physical office in droves. But thereâs an underlying anxiety for those who arenât enthusiastic about sharing air again. How can you, as a leader, put their minds at [...]
You donât need to reinvent the wheel to make progress. But what about the freight train? Founded by 3 former SpaceX engineers, start-up company Parallel Systemsâ goal is to do just that. By modernizing freight trains, they hope to transport more goods by rail (and less by highway trucks) to combat pollution levels. To do that, theyâre essentially reinventing freight trains as autonomous, [...]
After Peloton announced layoffs of 20% of its corporate workforce, a wise move would have been to make sure those folks didnât have access to virtual meetings anymore. Sadly, as youâve probably read in the news, this task was overlooked. When brand-new CEO Barry McCarthy and former CEO John Foley got on the screen for a virtual all-hands in February, many POâed current [...]
Neil deGrasse Tyson, the charismatic astrophysicist with a Twitter following of 14.5M people, wouldnât have gotten where he is without Carl Saganâs mentorship. Fun fact - Sagan tried to recruit Tyson to attend Cornell but since Tyson was an undefeated prep wrestling champ he selected Harvard in order to wrestle and pursue physics. Aristotle, even more legendary, owes a lot of his fame [...]
Do people like working at your company? Organizational culture is critical to HR success, and something a lot of companies struggle to define. But itâs one of the first things job seekers ask about. Especially in a time when they have a lot of choices, as a recruiter, I can attest: Theyâre choosy about their work environment â even if theyâre working remotely. When [...]