job search

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August 16, 2022 Julie Shenkman

How to Invest in Your Organization’s Future

Let’s face it, an ad hoc solution to hire talent will not meet your long-term recruitment goals. But, the heavy lift that happens every time you need to hire will no longer exist with a talent community. You can check

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July 21, 2022 Julie Shenkman

Welcome to the Phone Zone

As mobile devices continue to play a significant role in our everyday lives, texting, as part of the job search process, has grown dramatically over the years. Download the pdf. Nexxt is a recruitment media company that uses today’s most

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July 12, 2022 Julie Shenkman

National Survey Validates Texting as a Key Hiring Solution

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

June 7, 2022 Julie Shenkman

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

April 28, 2022 Julie Shenkman

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

March 17, 2022 Julie Shenkman

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

January 4, 2022 Julie Shenkman

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

October 14, 2021 Julie Shenkman

National 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

August 24, 2021 Julie Shenkman

Why 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

May 25, 2021 Julie Shenkman

Recruitment 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