97% of employees would learn a new skill if given the opportunity, according to a recent Gartner report. And that’s good, because Gartner also reports that the number of skills required for any particular job is increasing by the year. A tech job that once required 15 skills might now call for 20 or more. As employees are expected to know more and [...]
Read the recruiter rags these days, and they’re full of advice for us Executive Recruiters. They’re saying to be choosy about the clients we work with, and focus only on the ones that are the best prospects for the smaller, pickier pools of candidates in the workforce today. Personally, I’m not aiming to get any snobbier about which companies I support with my [...]
People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything. - Thomas Sowell Remember the good ol’ days of 3 meetings a day? Before the pandemic, that was the average for most professionals. Today, that number has increased to 5, according to at least one study. Why the extra two meetings? And even more alarming is the fact that these meetings take [...]
Want to know how your employees are feeling? Just look at them. Oh wait, you can’t look at them because you’re all working remotely? This has been the conundrum of a lot of leaders in the last year or two. And they — and perhaps you — have come up with plenty of new techniques for gauging both worker wellbeing and productivity. Things like: ✔️ Creating [...]
According to at least one survey I’ve read recently, base-pay averages across industries are expected to rise by 3.9% this year. Partly this is due to hyper-speedy inflation of late, but more importantly, it’s due to the talent shortage. If you’re planning to hire this year, getting competitive with salaries and benefits is going to be one major advantage you can secure. Recruiters [...]
“Tim, can you shoot me over some resumes?” This is a question I field frequently from hiring managers and HR teams in my role as a recruiter. They’re looking to me to save them time, so I do the initial recruiting to find the best possible candidates. How do I present my top choices? With a resume. But while a resume is [...]
“Tim, what can I do to up my odds of getting a great job?” Ah, the eternal question. You’ve probably already heard loads about the importance of using the right keywords in your resume in order to get past resume-scanning applications. You’ve possibly even heard this from me. And it’s true, keywords are important. But keywords won’t magically land you the job. What [...]
Things have really changed, and work culture is not exempt from that. The massive shifts brought about by the pandemic have influenced what’s important in a positive company culture in three main ways: Vector concept of searching for professional stuff 1 The concept of “employee belonging” is central to a positive work culture, signaling that employees feel a deep sense of [...]
You’ve heard of the Great Resignation. Now, let’s talk about the Great Realization. As Indeed recently reported, “The onset of the global pandemic has offered a slower pace and new lens to reflect on how we might live happier, more fulfilling lives.” For a lot of people, that means a critical lens on their jobs. In a Workplace Happiness Study Indeed commissioned from [...]
The human instinct is to try to be good at as many things as possible. Seemingly, Ambitious, type-A people can do it all. They’re good with technology, they’re fearless leaders, they display acute emotional intelligence, and they run marathons and perform concertos on the weekends. Right? Wrong. The truth is often that being really, really good at one or two things is enough [...]