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Gen Z Recruiting Trends: How to Effectively Engage and Hire the Next Generation of Workers

Recruiting Daily

As younger children, many watched their parents and older siblings experience one financial setback after another while struggling through The Great Recession in 2007, then record-high unemployment rates in 2020. They grew up on social media and blend the digital and physical worlds like never before. And who can blame them?

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65 percent of employers plan to hire recent college grads

CareerBuilder

In the best outlook since 2007, 65 percent of employers are planning on hiring recent grads, according to a recent CareerBuilder survey. Interacting with students at college job fairs on campus, or using social media to recruit online is a smart way to get in touch with this digital-native generation.

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#ShowUsYourLeave Spotlights Parental Leave and Why It's Critical Right Now

Linkedin Talent Blog

And social media management company Hootsuite offers 26 paid weeks off for birthing, nonbirthing, and adoptive parents, as well as six weeks paid leave for a pregnancy loss. When Google expanded its paid parental leave policy from 12 to 18 weeks in 2007, the retention rate of women post-maternity-leave jumped by 50%.

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29 Best Books on Recruitment (MUST Read Resources for Recruiters)

Recruiting Blogs

Talent Management Systems: Best Practices in Technology Solutions for Recruitment, Retention and Workforce Planning. The book urges readers to go beyond Linkedin and other social media in sourcing. Social Media Recruitment: How to Successfully Integrate Social Media into Recruitment Strategy.

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Talent Acquisition for Millennials

Manatal

TA also encompasses employee growth, retention, employer branding, and reinforcing the company culture. But these age groups also experienced the 9/11, 2007-2008 Financial Meltdown, the rise of social media, and the pandemic. Millennials are social activists and care deeply about inclusion.

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Talent and HR News Update: Women and the Workplace

exaqueo

Yet research links maternity leave to higher employee retention. Google, which was one of the first major companies to offer an extended maternity leave to six months in 2007, concluded that the rate at which new mothers quit was cut by 50 percent thanks to the improved policy. Department of Labor.

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Drinking from the Talent Acquisition Fire Hose

Bersin

I realized there was no academic research on this topic and went back to Northwestern for a PhD where my dissertation focused on the retention of downsizing survivors. After graduating in 2007, I joined Deloitte Consulting’s Human Capital practice determined to help companies with their talent and retention challenges.