Talent Trends: The Year Ahead
What’s in store for recruiters and talent acquisition leaders in 2018? Well, artificial intelligence and automation, for one thing. But if further talk of that makes your eyes glaze over, fear not —...
View ArticleSpeaking Up in the C-Suite
A recent series of experiments, which we wrote about here at HRE, sought to get a sense of employees’ feelings about corporate leaders who base business decisions on their moral beliefs. In that study,...
View ArticleRecruiting Takes to the Air
Recruiters dreaming up new ways to reach passive talent are going to have to dig down pretty deep—or go sky high—to top Kiwi.com. The online travel agency, based in the Czech Republic city of Brno,...
View ArticleRatedly Review-Tracking App Rates
I guess my biggest surprise after speaking recently with Joel Cheesman — creator of the new Ratedly anonymous employee-review monitoring service for employers that launched in May — is that competitors...
View ArticleAre You Giving Job Seekers What They Want?
The gender gap. The generation gap. The wage gap. The skills gap … Disparities abound in the workplace, unfortunately. And, according to Randstad U.S., we can go ahead and add “attributes gap” to the...
View Article3M Displaces Google Among Millennials
The maker of the Post-it Note has displaced the world’s best-known technology company atop the list of organizations that millennials most want to work for. 3M, which in addition to the aforementioned...
View ArticleJob Candidates’ Rising Expectations
If you’ve become accustomed to having job candidates jump through hoops in order to land positions at your organization, then you might want to brace yourself for change: Candidates are simply less...
View ArticleSHRM Speaker: Culture Must ‘Rock’
Many people think their company’s culture is about its heritage, about “the way we’ve always done things.” Jim Knight thinks those people are wrong. “At its core, a company’s culture is about the...
View ArticleMercer: People Risks Can Undermine Mergers
Last year saw a veritable “merger tsunami,” including health-insurance giant Anthem’s proposed $47 billion acquisition of rival Cigna Corp., chemical giants Dow and DuPont becoming one and Dell’s...
View ArticleUber’s Horrifying New Headache
It seems the revolutionary ride-hailing app is once again in the headlines at the start of another week, and for all the wrong reasons. As was widely reported over the weekend, Uber is now dealing with...
View ArticleMaersk Goes Global with New Maternity Benefits
You might say the parental-benefits bandwagon has just charged into the world arena. Copenhagen, Denmark-based Maersk Group announced recently that, starting April 4, it will be implementing a new...
View ArticleThe Perils of Anonymous Feedback
A number of firms have reached out to us recently about their internal feedback tools, which they say can increase engagement and improve performance by letting employees send their colleagues kudos or...
View ArticleRecruiting Takes to the Air
Recruiters dreaming up new ways to reach passive talent are going to have to dig down pretty deep—or go sky high—to top Kiwi.com. The online travel agency, based in the Czech Republic city of Brno,...
View ArticleRatedly Review-Tracking App Rates
I guess my biggest surprise after speaking recently with Joel Cheesman — creator of the new Ratedly anonymous employee-review monitoring service for employers that launched in May — is that competitors...
View ArticleAre You Giving Job Seekers What They Want?
The gender gap. The generation gap. The wage gap. The skills gap … Disparities abound in the workplace, unfortunately. And, according to Randstad U.S., we can go ahead and add “attributes gap” to the...
View Article3M Displaces Google Among Millennials
The maker of the Post-it Note has displaced the world’s best-known technology company atop the list of organizations that millennials most want to work for. 3M, which in addition to the aforementioned...
View ArticleJob Candidates’ Rising Expectations
If you’ve become accustomed to having job candidates jump through hoops in order to land positions at your organization, then you might want to brace yourself for change: Candidates are simply less...
View ArticleSHRM Speaker: Culture Must ‘Rock’
Many people think their company’s culture is about its heritage, about “the way we’ve always done things.” Jim Knight thinks those people are wrong. “At its core, a company’s culture is about the...
View ArticleMercer: People Risks Can Undermine Mergers
Last year saw a veritable “merger tsunami,” including health-insurance giant Anthem’s proposed $47 billion acquisition of rival Cigna Corp., chemical giants Dow and DuPont becoming one and Dell’s...
View ArticleUber’s Horrifying New Headache
It seems the revolutionary ride-hailing app is once again in the headlines at the start of another week, and for all the wrong reasons. As was widely reported over the weekend, Uber is now dealing with...
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