Setting performance objectives in a job posting is crucial for attracting the right candidates and ensuring clarity about what the role entails. Performance objectives help candidates understand what is expected of them in the position and enable you to evaluate their performance effectively once they...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...