Nexxt, a talent solutions technology company, recently announced the results of a national survey of more than 3,100 job seekers which revealed how important cell phones are as part of their daily lives and how text messaging plays a key
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Gray Collar Workers Could Be the Key to Your Hiring Challenges
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
Continue readingJob 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
Continue readingWhat 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
Continue readingWhy 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
Continue readingNational Study Helps Confirm Why It’s So Challenging to Hire Hourly Workers
Survey reveals how hourly workers feel about searching for jobs at the moment, the types of jobs they’re seeking, and what they are most enticed by when it comes to job offers. Nexxt, a talent solutions technology company, recently announced
Continue readingWhy Recruiting Gen-Z is a Whole Different Animal from Their Predecessors
Gen-Z is the generation born between 1996 and 2012. Currently the oldest members of this generation are 25-ish, which is the age when most people are entry level employees and are at the beginning of their careers. However, Gen-Z won’t
Continue readingRecruitment Solutions to Reach More Passive Candidates
We’re coming out of an unprecedented (yes, it’s overused, but there’s a reason for that, it’s a perfect way to describe the last 15 months) time, and now we’re in the new normal. And that new normal includes more passive
Continue readingHow Hiring Managers React to Candidates During and After Economic Downturns
The current US economy has been up and down this past year and it’s unclear how much or when the economy will fully recover, but with the CDC changing guidelines on masks, we seem to be on our way. This
Continue readingAre Job Seekers Ready to Get Back Out into the World?
It’s been more than a year since the world changed, but as we’re beginning to see a light at the end of the tunnel, are job seekers and employers ready to get back out into the world? At Nexxt we’ve
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