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The Top Reasons You Should Hire For Potential, Not Experience

4 Corner Resources Staffing Blog

Recruiting in low unemployment continues to be a challenge for companies while finding candidates who are a good “culture fit” is an increasingly important component of hiring processes. You come across a candidate with an impressive portfolio, but they don’t have any prior experience in fashion or apparel.

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You Really Need to Rethink Your Fonts

Staffing Talk

0001% of the companies that use it and, in some cases, haven’t changed their branding in 50 years because of it: 3M, American Airlines, Jeep, BMW, Jackass , The Office , JC Penney, American Apparel, Target, NASA, Apple, Motorola, and Panasonic. Well Helvetica is significant in the histories of visual communication and American culture.

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Staffing News of the Day, April 11, 2013

Staffing Talk

Revenue from online staffing firms such as Elance and oDesk is expected to double over two years, reaching $2 billion in 2014 [Staffing Industry Analysts]. A chillier-than-usual-March led to layoffs in spring retail , building/garden, textiles, apparel, and food [HuffPost Business]. Follow the same rules you dish out [Boston].

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Why Patagonia CHRO Dean Carter Sees Onsite Child Care as a Bedrock Benefit

Linkedin Talent Blog

He was the staffing manager for Pier 1 and then the CHRO for Fossil and Sears Holding. Though he was a national leader in HR, Dean discovered there were many things to be learned about corporate culture at the iconoclastic outdoor apparel company. Taking care of our tribe is part of our culture.”. Dean Carter gets HR.

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A Post-COVID Playbook for Recruiting and Retaining Tech Talent

Eightfold

As McKinsey researchers Peter Jacobs, Klemens Hjartar, Eric Lamarre, and Lars Vinter write at Sloan Management Review , those companies had begun to build tech teams that were overwhelmingly staffed with coders, engineers, and makers. Here are Whitehurst’s tips for encouraging self-driven learning: Foster “a culture of curiosity.”.

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Employers’ top wins and lessons of 2021 – and what they’re planning for 2022

Workable

It’s] the importance of engaging our employees and using strategies to increase effective communication, share company culture and boost employee productivity despite the remoteness of the work.”. CEO Mike Nemeroff of custom apparel brand Rush Order Tees in Philadelphia will take that employee-first mindset as well going into the next year.

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