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The October Jobs Report: Why You Need A Focused Approach to Hiring Talent 

Hireology

With a national unemployment rate of 6.9%, we continue to inch closer to pre-pandemic levels of employment, and have made it back to the level of unemployment that we saw two to three years after the 2008 recession. Even during times of record high unemployment, companies experience retention challenges, and business impacts can be severe.

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What Do Tech Workers Really Want?

Indeed

To tech talent, fancy offices with quantifiable perks may actually be less alluring than more intangible benefits, such as the openness of company leaders, charitable giving initiatives and the company’s brand values. Top perks and benefits involve self-improvement. Diversity is important in every area of business.

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The contingent workforce is about to skyrocket — here’s what you need to know

Eightfold

In addition, Khan said an uptick in contingent hiring could pave the way for underrepresented groups to enter the workforce, making organizations more diverse. We saw the first signs of this change after the 2008 recession when participating in the gig economy became very popular. Tell us about current retention rates.

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The Top Hiring Trends in Financial Services to Attract The Best Talent

4 Corner Resources Staffing Blog

Diversity also defines Millennials and Gen Z (which includes people born after 1997). These changing customer demographics translate into more emphasis on diversity recruiting, bilingual job candidates, and desirable positions like virtual bank teller, customer experience designer, and digital product manager.

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Gen Z Rising: How This New Generation Will Transform the Workplace

Employment Metrix

This generation tends to be frugal, probably relating to the recession during their childhoods in 2008. A bonus feature: Besides making Gen Z employees more comfortable and increasing retention, many of these technological innovations that transform the workplace also can benefit the entire organization. Technology Trends.

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Wages, Employee Retention and Benefits Align to Create Recruitment’s “Perfect Storm”

Recruiting Daily

Fast forward two years, with businesses now working hard to retain their staff and offer competitive benefits and wages as they face a trifecta of issues: the pandemic, inflation and unfulfilled jobs. Wage growth continues to run hot, with increases expected to continue into 2022, and at the highest levels since 2008’s Great Recession.

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Multiculturalism: Lorie Valle-Yanez on driving diversity initiatives into business benefits

Transformify - Recruiting

‘’Diversity Hiring’’ series features world diversity and inclusion leaders and their thoughts on diversity recruitment, cultural diversity and equality. Our guest today is Lorie Valle-Yanez, Head of Diversity and Inclusion, MassMutual. What does diversity hiring mean to you?