For the longest time, obtaining a traditional college degree meant many doors would open for you in the professional world. Due to college degrees having high value for decades, it’s now commonly seen as a must-have when pursuing a professional
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Building a talent pool is a critical first step to fulfilling your organization’s hiring needs. A strong talent pool reduces time-to-hire and cost-of-hire, increases the quality-of-hire, and saves you from scrambling for talent when the need to hire arises. But
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As the 2023 holiday season approaches, the retail industry will be facing an usual circumstance when it comes to hiring. As a result of COVID-19 and shifting consumer behavior and preferences, retail businesses are expecting to hire fewer employees this
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49% of job seekers are passive, which means, if you’re not investing in passive candidates, you’re leaving a large pool of talent untapped. Passive candidates are ideal for highly skilled and critical positions, when locating qualified active candidates is
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Gen Z is entering the workforce in droves, and with them comes fresh ideas, diverse perspectives, and modern priorities. To effectively engage with and hire members of this up-and-coming talent pool, it’s important to know what matters most to them
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Last year was rough on employers. The Great Resignation swept the nation. 50 million people left their jobs in 2022, the most since the Bureau of Labor Statistics began tracking two decades ago. Turnover rates soared and left businesses scrambling
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Employee retention reached lows in 2022. Dubbed the “great resignation,” nearly 50 million Americans quit their jobs last year, according to the federal JOLTS report, with about 4 million resigning every month. This was the highest documented rate of employee
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A Nexxt survey of job seekers asked the hard-hitting question, “What do job seekers really want?” Throughout a lot of unknowns over the last few years, the priorities of job seekers have obviously changed and changed back and changed again.
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COVID-19’s destabilization of the labor market is still evident three years later. According to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, workforce participation has yet to return to pre-pandemic levels, leaving employers floundering in their searches for qualified workers. Many additional factors
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Previously, many job positions would open to fill specific roles with a detailed summary of what the requirements and qualifications for that role would be. However, as times are changing and how the workforce operates is increasingly diversifying due to
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