The COVID-19 pandemic triggered losses equivalent to 255 million full-time jobs and $3.7 trillion of income. Many of the jobs lost in 2020, particularly in hard-hit sectors like tourism and retail, will never return.
Recent posts by Elizabeth T.
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Personality: the difference between the old and new hiring paradigm
Personality makes the world go 'round. Depending on the people you come across, they can inspire great ideas or cause doubt or anxiety. When you brainstorm or need to problem-solve, it's often about finding the right person to collaborate with. That's how and why artists work together, to let ideas flow. That's how multi-billion Apple was born: Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak's personality melded enough to create a great product.
Topics: Organizational Culture
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How These 5 Customer-Centric Companies are Excelling
Customer service-oriented companies focus on treating customers well, answering questions and exceeding expectations. This approach helps businesses engage customers and build strong relationships. 97% of customers tell others about very good or excellent customer service experiences. This makes customer service an incredibly important tool to remain competitive and agile. Here we've outlined 5 companies that are nailing it in how they create a loyal customer base and incorporate their customers to even how they make products.
Topics: Pre-Employment Testing Organizational Culture
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WHY Video is the New Resume (CV) for Candidates and Companies
If you enjoyed 80’s pop music, you may remember the Buggles’ one-hit wonder with its lyrics:"Video killed the radio star/ Video killed the radio star”. The song speaks of how video in the late 20th century annihilated the industry of radio and broadcasting. Not too different from how video is, uh, killing the resume.
Topics: AI Video Recruiting
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5 Steps to Implement a Fair Sales Recruitment Process
Employees are the principal resource for a successful company. Full stop. Therefore it is absolutely crucial companies select the right people for their teams. From skill and value set to complementing the goals of the company culture, hiring managers build a company.
Topics: Diversity Pre-Employment Testing
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Want to Lead Your Sales Team? Adapt Your Communication Style
Executives and managers are looking at how they can make an impact now in a post-COVID-19 workplace. As sales managers assume responsibilities over guiding people and various projects, they collect more metrics to measure. With more junior employees, this creates a larger array of viewpoints, opinions, and skills. Each of these traits brings immense value to an organization---but only if they’re properly harnessed. How managers and their employees communicate matter to bolster these traits.
Topics: Artificial Intelligence AI Video Recruiting Candidate Experience
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How Humans Detect Emotions in Faces?
As a recruiter, you understand that without pre-employment tests, evaluating a candidate's entire career on two sides of a piece of paper is impractical. Despite this, resumes are the first thing managers look for when evaluating applicants to find a good fit.
Topics: Science Artificial Intelligence AI Video Recruiting Pre-Employment Testing Organizational Culture
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The Psychology Teamwork/Building Teams
Building teams in healthcare recruiting, like any other industry, necessitates a teaming approach to ensure that prospective workers understand their responsibilities and the team's intent.
Topics: Diversity Organizational Culture
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Improving Patient Outcomes With Tailored Hiring
Medical and health-care occupations are among the fastest-growing jobs worldwide. As the world's population grows and our ageing people live longer, healthier lives, support staff are needed in these fields to manage medical records, insurance claims and billing, and general patient care. A remote hiring software combines strengths with the power of artificial intelligence and other technology-based support; in the era of COVID-19, it's truly the best way to remain resilient.
If you do not integrate stringent procedures into your recruiting practices, you will find it challenging to achieve good treatment results. If you let it be, remote work is the way of the future. The number of people who work from home is increasing. If you're considering recruiting remote workers, stay with us.
Topics: Healthcare
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If You’re in Healthcare Recruitment, Do You Know These Industry Challenges?
The hiring process can be challenging and stressful for an employer, no matter what business. In healthcare recruiting, however, there's an extra layer to it. Employees in the healthcare industry directly affect consumers' health and general well-being, which increases the burden on healthcare organizations.
Topics: Science Artificial Intelligence AI Video Recruiting Organizational Culture Healthcare
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How HR Managers and Recruiters Handle Data During the Hiring Process
Companies worldwide are grappling with the dilemma of having so much data without an easy and reliable way to take advantage of it. Even despite pre-employment assessments and other talent management strategies, until recently, the recruiting process was primarily a product of guesswork. HR managers and recruiters could never be certain if an applicant was ideal for a job opening or not. After all, manual resume screening and hunches had minimal efficiency.
Topics: Artificial Intelligence AI Video Recruiting Pre-Employment Testing
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The Cost of a Toxic Culture and How to Fix It
We all experience bad days at work. It may be the project overload, a colleague having a bad day, or when everything seems to be “off”. A pre-employment assessment or a fancy talent management strategy can't prevent it. Negative experiences happen. But a toxic workplace culture is not a one-off situation; it’s more than a bad day. It’s a serious issue that undermines all processes within a company.
Topics: Diversity Organizational Culture
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Here’s What the Ivy League Says About Hiring From the Outside
Hiring from the outside may seem like the natural step when a position opens up. It’s pretty common, after all. If you’re looking for new retention strategies for employees, you may want to consider your recruitment and hiring practice. The costs of hiring outside talent may outweigh the alternative: internal hiring. It goes beyond monetary compensation or the number of ads or sponsorship needed to seek outside hires. There are other considerations for fast-moving organizations.
Topics: Diversity Organizational Culture
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Why You Need a 'Deloading' Phase in Your Work Life
If you’re looking to increase your mental performance, do a digital detox, or uplevel your professional life, you may want to consider implementing a “deloading” phase.
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How to Use Science to Understand Your Decision-Making
Decision making can be fatiguing---or empowering, once you know more about the process. For hiring managers, it’s about choosing the right candidate and giving a great candidate experience. From every touch point, the interviewing process, the pre-employment assessment, to the final decision, it’s all about quality versus quantity. With so many decisions on so many different touch-points during the hiring pipeline----and with so many candidates, colleagues, business goals, and more---how does a person stay sane? What about quality control around decisions?
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6 Values to Guide Candidate-Centric Hiring
Creating a candidate centric hiring process begins with empathy. In fact, in the famous design thinking methodology created by IDEO and incubated at Stanford University, empathy is always the leading first step. When it comes to a pre-employment assessment or any other part of the candidate experience journey, lead with empathy and follow with thought.
Topics: Artificial Intelligence Pre-Employment Testing Organizational Culture
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Privacy Ethics: Why You Need an EU Values-Driven Company
Data protection laws in Europe are among the strongest in the world. In recent years, European data authorities have taken increasingly aggressive action against Big Tech.
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If You Lead a Company, Lead Yourself: Training to Check Out
You lead people, but how well do you lead yourself? As a leader at your company, you may be the one calling the shots, making the decisions, and looking out for your team’s growth. But how do you feel you’re learning? How are you improving your decision making? How do you continue to grow, even with your experience and know-how?
U.S. corporations spend a healthy amount on training and development: $356 billion globally. on employee training and education, but they aren’t getting a good return on their investment. People soon revert to old ways of doing things, and company performance doesn’t improve.
Topics: Organizational Culture
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What to Look for in an Employee Training Software (Choose Wisely)
You may have come across a teeny, tiny challenge of this current pandemic: training employees remotely. You may need help in finding an employee training software that suits your needs. For companies across the globe, training the workforce---despite present constraints---may be an opportunity to digitize training. It's an opportunity, but it may feel a bit stressful. There's so many options on the market. You may feel a bit like the movie character Indiana Jones in "Indian Jones and the Last Crusade"; he had to choose the right cup or suffer the consequences.
But that's why you're here. You recognize it's important. Flexible working has its pros and --- if you choose wisely--- training remotely may have its pros as well. Finding a digital tool that provides rapid feedback and plugs in seamlessly with your other tools is a given. What are the other considerations?
Topics: AI Video Recruiting Candidate Experience Organizational Culture
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Before AI recruiting, You Should Conduct This Skills Gap Analysis
Apart from the more general benefits of “more efficiency” and “resource optimization”, a gap analysis can help to identify very specific areas for improvement, and provide guidance towards actionable steps for improving processes, products, services, or anything that is being examined within the framework.
