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Despite Slight Cooling, Recruiters Now in Higher Demand Than Engineering Talent

Recruiting Daily

However, recruitment and retention difficulties will not disappear as the unemployment rate is only projected to rise to around 4.5% Companies will need to prepare for continued labor shortages and further improve their sourcing and retention strategies to remain competitive.” Apparel Fashion: 35% (+26% from August).

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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. Dean Carter gets HR. But Dean had a blind spot.

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

Workable

That’s the spirit in the Big Quit environment, where employee retention is lauded as one of the biggest accomplishments of 2021 for many SMB employers. To think of it, the employee retention challenges faced by other companies have been big lessons for our business. Notice a trend in what contributes to employee retention?

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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. Finally, make sure there’s real buy-in when committing to this model of talent retention.

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