Now and in the years to come, gray is the color that will help companies cope with filling open positions left vacant recently. Meet the gray collar workers. Gray collar workers are the workforce subset lying at the intersection of
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Category: Workplace Culture
Employee Well-being Should Be a Core Business Strategy
Companies must consider this key business strategy because it can promote higher retention and increased employee morale. The strategy that businesses should offer is workplace well-being. Companies may feel the need to resume business as usual but this could be
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Job Descriptions in The Digital Era Should Be Based on Skills Not Tasks
job Employers are scaling back or even eliminating the need for employees and potential employees to have college degrees. Their reasoning for this? Employers now prefer to hear and see a candidate’s skills and competencies. A Harvard Business Review study
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Stop Asking Job Seekers Questions in The Interview You Don’t Care to Know the Answers To
Small talk is a core component of our everyday interactions, it’s a convenient ice-breaker we can use to start a deeper conversation. Even in formal occasions, such as job interviews, starting out with small talk is acceptable and common, but
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What Job Seekers Want
The desires of job seekers have shifted over the last few years. While some things never change (the importance of earning a salary for instance is still the most important thing to job seekers), at the moment, job seekers are
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Having Trouble Filling Positions, Look at Your Dress Code
With the shift in the workplace norm, remote work has become more prevalent. It is unlikely that your employees are wearing a three-piece suit or high heels during a Zoom call that only shows the torso up. Comfort is king!
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Is Kindness the Key to Retention?
When we think of retention tools, we think of perks and benefits, we often talk about free lunches and foosball tables, but in a time when these things are now very common or not as feasible since many workers began
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Why Are Candidates Rejecting Your Job Offers?
You’ve gone through the entire interview process and your ideal candidate has continually impressed you and made it to the offer round. You extend what you feel is a lucrative offer of employment, only to receive a polite “Thank you
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Why You Should Invest in Talent That Didn’t Take the Traditional Path
Long gone are the days a prestigious degree is required for a management role. Most job tasks can be learned through training and sometimes the best employees aren’t those who already have the desired experience, but those who are willing
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How to Make Your Workplace Attractive for Top Talent
Regardless of the industry you are in, hiring top talents can help your business grow. Sure, you may have thought of competitive salaries and perks to attract them. But there are other ways to attract potential employees to work for
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