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Train for Gain: How to Train New Hires for Success

Waiting for that perfect candidate to pop up in your talent pipeline? Unfortunately, such an ideal is more of a pipe dream than a pipeline reality. In unskilled, hourly positions, staffing shortage challenges stack up quickly. Therefore, it’s vital to accelerate your chances of finding a good candidate rather than delaying for a perfect one. […]

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Soft Skills for Success: Skills Based Hiring for Entry Level Roles

Would you hire a candidate for your unskilled, hourly position if they didn’t have a resume? By the end of this article, the answer might surprise you. Unskilled workers may not have specialized knowledge, technical skills, or a robust resume, but even those without much prior experience bring potential. The reason? They often come with […]

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Build a Future-Ready Workforce: Why Computer Literacy Matters in Hiring

In today’s digital age, lacking basic digital skills isn’t just a minor gap—it’s an organizational roadblock. Hiring employees who lack computer literacy skills means lower productivity, higher turnover for companies, and increased training costs. In fact, 92% of all jobs require some level of digital skills1. As computers become more embedded in our work lives, […]

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Making Hiring Decisions: Where to Compromise

With every open job requisition, we all want to make the “perfect” hire, but that’s not realistic. No one is perfect, and all new hires come with a degree of compromise. The challenge is making the right compromises. Any hiring manager will tell you that the wrong compromise has far-reaching consequences. And data is the […]

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Improve Your Applicant Pool with Better Job Requirements

What if you could substantially improve your applicant pool immediately? A recent article about published in Harvard Business Review had an eye-catching claim in its headline: Your approach to hiring is all wrong. That’s a pretty bold statement; however, the author’s argument is worth a read. He describes how, in the past, the hiring process was built […]

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Hiring Sales Reps: How to Identify Top Talent

Sales are vital to the health and wealth of businesses. To hit your sales goals, you need a high performing sales team. It takes a specific type of person to build trust and turn prospects into customers. So, filling your sales roles with the right people is critical. Unfortunately, that’s easier said than done! It’s […]

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Reskilling Can Help Energy Companies Solve Their Recruiting Challenges

From a hiring standpoint, the energy sector has two big problems: an aging workforce moving headlong toward retirement, and aging infrastructure in desperate need of workers with the skills and experience to keep in running. Last year the industry added 152,000 new jobs, outperforming the economy as a whole according to The 2019 U.S. Energy […]

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How to Be a Better Recruiter with Design Thinking

An increasing number of organizations are relying on design thinking to solve problems. Design thinking has roots in product development. It emerged as a way to use creative thinking, empathy, feedback, and brainstorming techniques to generate better ideas for products that people actually need. Over time, design thinking has infiltrated other areas of business – […]

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Recruiting Top Talent: Tips to Fill Highly Specialized Roles

Recruiters are tasked with filling virtually every position in a company. But unless recruiters have experience with the jobs they’re filling, recruiting top talent can be difficult for them- let alone choosing the best candidate. This is especially true for highly specialized or low-volume roles, such as software engineers, HR managers, and executives. When interviewing […]

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Fact or Fiction: Looking Beyond the Resume

“A website, called This Resume Does Not Exist can generate fabricated resumes using data found online. The site uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to generate fake names, career goals, job experience, and even photos of fictional candidates.” The results aren’t terribly impressive – yet. At first glance, the resumes look impressive but dig deeper, and most […]

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