Everyone loves a buzz phrase until you’re an HR pro facing 2 phrases about employee dissatisfaction. The term Quiet Quitting went viral on the social media platform TikTok, last year (2022), coined by influencer Brian Creely. A year later, Loud Quitting became the newest talked-about workplace trend. On the surface, the terms seem to describe… Read more »
7+ Must-Read DEI Books for HR Pros
If you read blogs about diversity, you can get fast tips for including everyone at work. But if you want to really understand diversity, equity, and inclusion, reading DEI books is better. They can give managers and HR leaders like you a complete understanding of DEI and how to use it in workplaces. For managers… Read more »
What is intersectionality in the workplace?
What is intersectionality in the workplace? “Intersectionality” was coined by civil rights activist and professor Kimberle Crenshaw as: The interconnected nature of social categorizations, such as race, class, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, is regarded as creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage. In other words, it’s… Read more »
Are You Guilty of These 7 Common Hiring Mistakes?
Hiring and recruitment are necessary for keeping a company going. It’s inevitable to introduce new faces to your organization down the road as teams mature and pass on the baton. But here’s the rub – modern companies face high turnover rates and poor employee retention. People leave their companies at a staggering rate before the… Read more »
The Ultimate List of 60+ Job Description Benefits
Employee benefits are a crucial part of a job description and can significantly influence a candidate’s decision to apply. A Glassdoor study pointed out that 63% of job seekers and employees pay attention to employee benefits in job ads. Aflac also revealed that 83% of companies believe their benefits package positively impacts productivity. In comparison,… Read more »
The Ultimate List of Job Description Tips
How do you find the perfect candidates for a role? The first step to finding great candidates is to have excellent job descriptions to attract and encourage top candidates to apply. We’re here to help with this list of job description tips for crafting the best JDs. Let’s dive in! Start with your JDs Getting… Read more »
New Hire Onboarding: 9 Key Documents You Need
So, you’ve chosen a new hire for a vacant position, and they’re due to join the company in a few weeks. The hard work of advertising and interviewing is over—but a lot more admin comes with welcoming a new employee. Onboarding involves much more than orientation, although it’s important to welcome the new hire and… Read more »
10 Unexpected Benefits of WFH Policies
In the years since a great deal of white-collar work started at a computer, work-from-home (WFH) policies have become more popular. But the COVID-19 pandemic, which forced all but the most essential employees to work from home (or otherwise temporarily put them out of work altogether), made WFH policies more mainstream. What was originally viewed… Read more »
10 Biased Interview Questions & What to Ask Instead
Job interviews are really nerve-wracking for job seekers. They’re super important because they greatly affect who gets hired. Biased interview questions can also make this even more stressful. And they present the greatest risk for biases in the hiring process. Research shows that 59.9 % of hiring decisions are made within the first 15 minutes… Read more »
How Employee Self-Service Technology is Empowering The Workforce
Businesses are always looking for ways to streamline operations and save money. Administrative tasks are one central area most organizations strive to optimize as they can be time-consuming and costly. According to Brightpearl researchers a survey of 2,000 workers spent 21 hours and 36 minutes a week doing admin tasks. That equates to 1,025 hours… Read more »
Women Harassed On LinkedIn: 6 New Study Findings
You might be curious why female users of the largest networking site encounter inappropriate behavior. I wish I knew the answer, too. We don’t know what drives people to act this way. But, we can learn more about this issue from the women who are affected by it. This time, Max Woolf from Passport-Photo.Online decided… Read more »
How to Attract Talent with Green Job Postings
Recruiters and hiring managers must stay agile with their messaging to keep up with changing workforce attitudes and trends. This has been especially true over the past few years, as churn has affected every industry during the COVID-19 pandemic. For a while, it was remote work policies that candidates were pushing for, and that was… Read more »
Web3 Job Description: How to Attract Top Talent
In today’s rapidly evolving technology world, the term “Web3” has gained considerable popularity. A high-quality web3 job description in Web3 job boards is the first step to finding a talented employee. The Web3 industry is developing quickly, so companies are looking for top talent to work in this area. But the question arises: how to… Read more »
5 ChatGPT Job Description Templates
If you haven’t heard, ChatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer) is an AI-powered language model, capable of generating human-like text based on context and past conversations. ChatGPT is much more than a simple AI chatbot with applications like essay, code, caption writing, and telling stories or naming your new pet. Unsurprisingly, HR professionals use artificial intelligence… Read more »
Shattering Gender Stereotypes in Creative Industries
Even though we’re well into the 21st century, gender stereotypes still exist in various professional industries. While most people might automatically assume the business world is the “hub” of gender stereotypes, people are still facing stigma in creative industries, too. Unfortunately, these pervasive gender stereotypes create detrimental effects on workplace diversity. They contribute to toxic… Read more »
