Depending on market demand for certain roles, recruiters and hiring managers could be sifting through hundreds of resumes which can be a lengthy and time-consuming process. Especially without the aid of an ATS or recruitment partner to help pre-qualify the best candidates. Your time is...
As a manager or business owner, one of your key responsibilities is to foster a high-performing team that drives success and growth for your organization. Setting clear and meaningful performance objectives for your employees is an essential step in achieving this goal. However, crafting performance...
In today's competitive job market, standing out from the crowd is more important than ever. Job seekers are constantly looking for innovative ways to enhance their chances of getting noticed by employers. One revolutionary tool that has gained significant attention in recent times is ChatGPT,...
Summertime—lounging by the pool, downing popsicles, and finding a new appreciation for yes, air conditioning. And what about looking for a job? The hotter, longer days of the year aren’t necessarily the worst time to be looking for your next position, but it can be...
Taking vacation time is important, but apparently, it’s unusual. The Pew Research Center found that more than half of Americans aren’t using all their vacation time. To be exact, only 48% of workers max out their vacation days. Why? Most cite concerns of overwhelming coworkers...
Whether you’re ready to rebound from a layoff or find yourself reflecting on your line of work, you aren’t alone. The numbers show that you’ll have multiple career paths over your lifetime—including different lines of work. Research shows that millennials—who make up the bulk of...
Onboarding and continual team education are critical to employee retention. An effective onboarding process can increase the retention of new hires by up to 82%. Meanwhile, Gallup found that only 12% of American employees think their employer has a good onboarding process, with one in...
No matter how crowded the job market is, there are always strategies to stand out. Listing your skills on your resume to cut through the filters and get in front of recruiting teams is crucial. But that’s just the starting point, and it helps when...
No matter the talent market, the right candidate can be hard to pin down. Employers want someone who will make an impact while matching up with the internal culture and team dynamics—the more refined a skillset, the tougher the find. And when you start talking...
The job search can be intimidating in a regular job market, and when the volume is pumped up, it can be outright overwhelming. But there’s good news, no matter what’s happening with hiring freezes or layoffs, there are ways you can unleash a competitive edge...
We all know the saying, “it’s business, and it isn’t personal.” However, since the Covid pandemic hit, more employers have worked hard to make their company culture personal. Organizations invested in developing shared values with workers, engaging them with appreciation events, asking for their feedback,...
No matter the economy or job market, one thing is clear—remote and hybrid work are here to stay. Millennials dominate the workforce, and Gen Z professionals are on the rise. The way job candidates think about how we work and what a workplace looks like...
Let’s face it. The job search is an emotional rollercoaster with high highs and low lows. Staying energized and engaged in your daily hunt for the dream job can be tricky, and keeping your professional mojo intact is even more challenging. The constant grind of...
It's no secret that months of layoffs across big tech and other industries have rattled the workforce and any sense of job security professionals maintained throughout The Great Resignation. In the last year, more than 130K professionals have been laid off in technology even though...
We’re quickly easing into a new year. And whether you’re positioning yourself for a raise, promotion, or new job over the next year or just ready to reinvest in yourself, now is the perfect time to knock out some simple wins. It’s a great time...
So you’re ready to make your next hire and you’re looking for that right marketer who will help up your branding game, right? You know exactly what and who you’re looking for and now you just need to reach the right candidates. And one of the...
Are you ready to start the search? Let’s make sure. There are important steps that go into taking that next step in your career—seven to be exact. Make sure you do these things before ever clicking Apply. Get inspired. Finding the right position doesn’t happen overnight....
Whether you’re a leader at an up-and-coming startup or an enterprise-level employer, business leaders everywhere have learned critical lessons about retaining talent in the last few years. After the pandemic sparked a change in how we work and live, professionals across industries changed employers or...
You aren’t alone if you’re looking to rebound your career after a layoff. This month, Amazon joined other tech giants, including Twitter and Meta (formerly Facebook), in a significant workforce reduction—laying off ten thousand employees. With an economy in flux and problematic inflation, job security...
Writing about yourself is never easy, period. And crafting your professional bio comes with some added pressure because it matters more to your career than anything else you write. Whether it’s living on your website, your LinkedIn summary, or on a company or association page—your...
If you interview job candidates—keep reading—this blog takes you through some seemingly innocuous questions that can get you into legal trouble. With the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in place to safeguard applicants from discrimination, some strict laws might surprise you. In this blog,...
Maybe we’re going through a post-pandemic work culture shock, maybe the zennial and millennial dominated workforce has different expectations, or maybe, professionals are normalizing setting healthy boundaries at work. Either way, recently, “quiet quitting” went viral on a TikTok video by a popular zennial content...
The first few days and weeks on a job are intense. There’s a new tech stack to navigate, new team members to meet, a new hierarchy and set of team dynamics, and a serious case of information overload. The launchpad for a contract position and...
September is here. The great pumpkin-latte debate is in full swing again, schools online and onsite or in session, and yes, it just so happens to be Update Your Resume Month. But at Staffing Strong, we think of it as Update Your Professional Presence Month...
Retaining top talent is more challenging than ever since the Great Resignation started. From rage quitting to being recruited away in a competitive market, professionals have a broad set of reasons for taking their careers elsewhere. More organizations are putting a hold on returning to...
As the great resignation continues, more American workers are prioritizing their mental health over how things look on their resumes and rage quitting. Rage quitting is an unfortunate hallmark of toxic workplaces when an employee quits on the spot. Employers are already struggling with retention...
Job searching is probably one of the most stressful experiences we go through in our personal or professional lives. It’s an emotional rollercoaster mixed in with the ups and downs—the initial interviews, the canned rejections, and the eventual job offers—are succinct and often painstakingly cryptic...
2020 brought a sea change to business as usual as the American workforce—and global enterprise—went fully remote. Remote work has become the new normal. There have been some perks for employers, too, saving on business maintenance, upkeep, and travel expenses. About 64% of employees currently...
You're probably on the job hunt or open to it if you're reading this blog. At the start and height of the pandemic, professionals were gun shy about making any big moves in a disruptive marketplace. A lot has changed. Today there are five million...
As we gradually move on from the first major global pandemic in modern history, American employers are on the edge of the next major disruption—the sansdemic. That’s the lack of available talent that is alarmingly projected to become a growing scarcity over our lifetimes—and the...
We are almost two years into a global pandemic that has changed the way we work and reshaped the workforce. The job market is trending strongly in your favor. That's because there are currently one and a half jobs posted for every unemployed American and...
For the first time in decades, there are 1.5 jobs open for every unemployed American. Any other time in modern workplace history, all employers had to do was post a position or put a Help Wanted sign in the window and wait comfortably as the...
Fact, there are 1.5 jobs posted and available for every unemployed American—that’s the most on record in decades. The “Great Resignation” is a mind-bending new normal for employers struggling to hire and keep great talent. But there’s some good news. This window gives professionals an...
We started hearing about the Great Resignation back in 2019, but according to Ryan Roslansky, CEO at LinkedIn, the workforce is actually undergoing a “Great Reshuffle.” As Roslansky explains it, the pandemic sparked a change in how we work and what we value. On the...
It’s been almost two years since the COVID-19 pandemic started a rapid shift in how we live and work. A connected, remote workforce is now the new normal at most businesses, and there is no sign of going backward. The last 18 months have challenged...
If you’re reading this blog, you probably aren’t a stranger to all the obstacles to recruiting and retaining long-term hires in today’s talent market. With more Fortune 500 companies going fully remote and considering candidates in new geographies since the mass cubicle exodus started last...
The Great Resignation is upon us, and according to a recent NBC survey, upwards of 55% of the American workforce has their sights set on a new position in the coming year. It’s been a Black Mirror episode of eighteen months. Many of us have...
When it comes to bringing on new talent, it’s critical to remember that while the goal of diversity and inclusion is key in building an accepting workplace where everyone can do their best work, using preferred employee and applicant pronouns is more than a common...
It’s O.K, we’ve all been there. You’re either out of work or you’re more than ready to land another job, and sometimes it’s easy to panic or maybe even get trigger-happy with that Apply Now button. It can be tempting to use your cookie-cutter resume...
There’s a reason more than 98% of Fortune 500 companies use application tracking systems (ATS) to filter out less qualified candidates before any pre-interview screening even starts. Virtually every time you apply for a job online your application goes through an ATS. And it does...