Editor’s Note

More than half (51%) of your employees might be looking for a new job! Not just that. Eighty four percent of your employees are ready to consider leaving their current position if a company with an outstanding reputation tried to snag them (as per a recent survey by Hirewell).

Hacking The Job Market: 3 ways to attract passive job seekers

You might be asking yourself, why you should care, you have many candidates’ emails in your inbox. However, the passive job seeker can be the most successful candidate. Because they aren’t desperate, they won’t embellish their past experience in initial conversations. Most passive job seekers will consider a new position if they think the job will be good for them, but they won’t necessarily take the first thing that comes their way.

Talent Acquisition Excellence August 2017 Advertisers

How To Modernize Your Talent Acquisition Strategy For Success

For SMBs, where time and resources are limited, talent acquisition can seem like a daunting task. Growing businesses are often equipped with an HR “department” of just one or two individuals, who are responsible for managing employee relations, payroll and benefits—in addition to finding, interviewing, hiring and onboarding new talent. Wearing so many different hats leaves little time to focus on recruitment.

3 Considerations For Using Big Data In Hiring Decisions: Learn how to do it right

This field (sometimes referred to as “people analytics”) is marketed as full of promise, including the possibility of identifying unrealized potential, increasing diversity, reducing turnover, improving employee satisfaction, and improving the company and individual performance.

Why Aren’t Businesses Hiring Veterans?: Understanding the challenges

There is a disconnect between veterans and civilian hiring managers that goes both ways. Veterans leave military service typically unprepared and unarmed with the tools to position themselves as viable candidates to civilian companies, and hiring managers are unskilled and untrained in how to recruit military veterans for jobs outside of service.

Top 7 Tips To Hire The Best Sales Representatives

To hire the best sales representatives, start by making list of your “superstars.” By “superstars, I mean sales representatives who are both (a) highly productive + (b) low-turnover. You want to, in effect, “clone” them. That is, hire people who have similar job-related qualities. List biographical data (bio-data) your “superstars” have in common in their work histories, training, education, and compensation. Applicants with similar bio-data might be worth giving pre-employment tests.

2017 EEO-1 Reporting - Overcoming The Changes And Challenges: What you need to know

The 2017 EEO-1 report should be applauded for its new potential to discover wage disparities between different sexes, ethnicities, and races. However, recent updates and expanded requirements make some HR professionals wary instead. The 2017 EEO-1 report is quadruple the length of its predecessor and comes with a set of changes and challenges that can be daunting for the unprepared.

3 Ways To Engage Candidates With Content Marketing

At People®, we do a lot of content marketing. For those of you who don’t know what this is, content marketing is a marketing approach which involves creating useful, original content that an audience actually wants to consume. Unlike traditional marketing, which involves paying for a platform from which to tout your wares, content marketing allows you to build your own platform that people will want to visit, and use this as a springboard to connect with prospects.

6 Tips For Onboarding First Time Sales Representatives: Where do you start?

Don’t Make Assumptions First time sales representatives are starting at the beginning. Don’t assume they know anything. While seasoned representatives may just need to get up to speed on your company, first time sales representatives require additional resources and information. As you prepare your onboarding plan, be sure to include: