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January 23, 2024 Julie Shenkman

Audit Your Candidate Experience to Increase Your Retention Rate

Is your company struggling with candidates abandoning the hiring process? An audit of that process is likely necessary, as you might be missing out on great talent. Even if your retention rate is strong, scrutinizing the hiring process from the

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January 4, 2024 Julie Shenkman

Job Listings Need to Tell a Story

If your most recent job listing was a door-to-door salesman, would it arrive smiling, sweet talk its way through the front door, and shake hands on the customer’s living room couch? Or would it stand woodenly on the porch, stuttering

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December 21, 2023 Julie Shenkman

Is A Traditional Degree Still the Golden Ticket?

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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November 7, 2023 Julie Shenkman

Proactive Strategies for Building a Strong Talent Pool

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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October 24, 2023 Julie Shenkman

Holiday Retail Hiring: Be Prepared to Hire Fast

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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October 12, 2023 Julie Shenkman

Strategic Sourcing: Finding and Engaging Passive Candidates for Success

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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College Graduates Hopefully Looking Off to the Side
September 28, 2023 Julie Shenkman

What New Grads Really Want from Their First Jobs

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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September 12, 2023 Julie Shenkman

Hello to the Big Stay

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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August 24, 2023 Julie Shenkman

Retention Is High At The Moment

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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July 6, 2023 Julie Shenkman

Shifting Priorities: What Job Seekers REALLY Want!

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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About the Blog

EmploymentMetrix is a blog from Nexxt, a talent solutions technology company. We feature Informative and fun content to help recruiters, HR pros, and hiring managers find the perfect candidates.

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Shifting Priorities: What Job Seekers REALLY Want!

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Contributors

Julie Shenkman
Julie Shenkman is a Marketing and Communications Manager at Nexxt. She has more than 10 years of experience in the areas of public relations, social media, digital marketing, and sarcasm.

Rich Milgram
Rich Milgram is a software engineer turned entrepreneur with more than 20 years of experience. As the proud founder and CEO of Nexxt, he is a recognized leader in the HR tech space.

Andrea Fricks
Andrea Fricks is a digital marketing and communications professional with experience in the areas of social media, paid advertising, analytics, project management, strategic planning, and internal communications. Effective communicator able to work independently or as part of a team.

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