Geeks, Geezers, and Googlization Show
399 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 56 ratingsIf you think this is just another podcast, think again. We are the voice of the most important crucial conversations confronting business leaders and people today. Our goal is to bring you ways to reimagine tomorrow and explore the impact and convergence of business, technology, and people.
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Creating an Army of Recruiters Through Recognition with Sarah McVanel
April 07, 2022 09:00 - 41 minutes - 40.4 MBA paycheck alone isn’t enough anymore. Meaningful compensation and recognition have become just as important. So how can you show your people appreciation to both attract and retain talent? In this episode of Geeks, Geezers, Googlization, Sarah McVanel, a leading recognition expert and author, sheds light on some myths that get in the way of acknowledging others. Sarah also breaks down how practicing recognition can help you create an army of recruiters. As you listen, you’ll hear simple w...
Vocal Empowerment for Virtual Communication with Dr. Laura Sicola
March 24, 2022 09:00 - 44 minutes - 43.9 MBWe’ve gone from phone, to email, to text, to video. Communication is constantly evolving. Are you adapting with them to make sure you’re both heard and, more importantly, understood? In this episode of Geeks, Geezers, Googlization, leadership communication and influence expert Dr. Laura Sicola discusses the subtle changes that make communication more effective. As you listen, you’ll hear tips on how to bring your in-person best to video so people take notice and retain the information you’...
Everywhere Workplace in a Never-Normal World
March 23, 2022 21:03 - 52 minutes - 121 MBRemember the good old pre-pandemic days when people woke up, showered, got dressed, crawled through long commutes, and searched for a coveted parking spot, just so that they could sit at a desk in a building to do work? Today, workers demand flexibility - to work from everywhere, anywhere, at any time. Building an Everywhere Workplace is not just an essential talent strategy. To navigate the labor market in this Never-Normal era, it's essential you can differentiate the opportunities from...
Build a Burnout-Proof Work Culture
March 17, 2022 16:05 - 43 minutes - 40.1 MBWorkers are stressed. Many employees are burned out, running on fumes. Symptoms of stress and burnout are proliferating. A recent McKinsey report revealed that nearly 1 out of every 4 employees has moderate needs for counseling and psychotherapy. The World Health Organization estimates the impact of mental health symptoms on absenteeism, presenteeism, and loss of productivity is costing the global economy over $1 Trillion per year. Unfortunately, stress and burnout still carry a stigma and e...
Level Up Your Career Transition, Find Your "It" factor
March 12, 2022 20:43 - 46 minutes - 42.8 MBTo everyone else, it looked like Dr. Loubna Erraji had a perfect life. She is a high achiever, a neuroscientist with 20 years of experience encompassing scientific research, teaching, consulting, and coaching. She’s held important academic positions and executive corporate roles. But despite her distinguished career and a long list of accomplishments, she wasn’t happy. Nothing was working in her life and job until she found a coach. One might wonder why high achievers like Loubna Erraji wo...
Putting the Humanity Back In HR with Steve Browne
March 10, 2022 10:00 - 38 minutes - 38.2 MBThe Great Resignation, The Great Attrition, The Big Quit - whatever you want to call it, Steve Browne isn’t buying it. Steve, Chief People Officer at LaRosa’s Pizzeria, says people aren’t leaving the workforce, they are simply leaving places that don’t value them as both a person and an employee. That’s why Steve is making Larosa’s an organization people want to be a part of by putting people first. And not just in theory, but in practice. In this episode of Geeks, Geezers, Googlization...
Positive Impact of Purpose with Kiersten Rippeteau
March 06, 2022 20:49 - 46 minutes - 43.3 MBFor Kiersten Rippeteau, purpose, meaning, and company culture aren’t just lofty words but high-impact actions. Unfortunately for many business leaders, they are just word-du-jour. They toss them around in the hopes something sticks. She, however, believes that every business can have a powerful positive impact on its employees, customers, and community. And for nearly 15 years, she has been helping leaders do exactly that - connect the dots between the business strategy, mission, and people....
Taking a Pulse on Today’s Labor Market with Gad Levanon
February 24, 2022 10:00 - 36 minutes - 36 MB“We are now experiencing two, once-in-a-century trends happening at the same time—the labor shortage is one and the shift to remote work is the other.” Gad Levanon, Chief Economist at the Burning Glass Institute, has won awards for accurately forecasting U.S. economic trends. What’s his take on the shift to remote work? It’s dramatically changing the labor and economic playing field. In this episode of Geeks, Geezers, Googlization, Gad joins hosts Ira Wolfe and Jason Cochran to break dow...
How to Grow Your Growth Mindset
February 16, 2022 23:37 - 44 minutes - 41.3 MBOn this episode of Geeks, Geezers, Googlization, show hosts Jason Cochran and Ira S Wolfe are joined by the Dulead leadership team of Eric Hiler and Scott Himes to explore the importance of growth mindset and how a micro-learning coaching experience can give everyone from the front-line to the C-Suite the power to make change work. While winning the gold at the Olympics is every athlete’s goal, less than 3 percent of the athletes get an opportunity to stand atop the world stage. How these wo...
Plan, Integrate, Automate with Chad Sowash
February 10, 2022 10:00 - 39 minutes - 38.5 MBLast year over 18 billion dollars were infused into HR tech, yet only 40% of senior HR leaders say they have a digital transformation plan in place for their businesses. According to Chad Sowash, the issue isn’t the tech, it’s the planning and integration. Chad is an HR legend, especially in recruitment, and is currently co-host of “Chad and The Cheese,” HR’s most dangerous podcast. In this episode of Geeks, Geezers, Googlization, Chad joins hosts Ira Wolfe and Jason Cochran to explore...
Resilience Ready | Live with Vivian Blade
February 04, 2022 21:05 - 44 minutes - 42.2 MBBurnout and stress are at all-time highs. In what has been dubbed The Great Resignation, over 26 million people have said adios to their bosses in just 5 months. Nearly one-third of the workforce has changed jobs over the past 12 months. Not only are more and better opportunities available, but a global study by Oracle and Workplace Intelligence found that 78% of employees reported that their mental health was negatively impacted by the pandemic. Half of the workers say they’re experiencing ...
Welcome to the never-normal: Geeks, Geezers, Googlization
February 03, 2022 10:00 - 3 minutes - 6.09 MBIn Geeks, Geezers, Googlization, Ira Wolfe and Jason Cochran explore the new, challenge the old, and dare to push back on everybody who’s said “When we’re back to normal times…”. Join them weekly for fresh conversations around all topics pertaining to talent management.
Live with Ben M. Bensaou, Built To Innovate
January 20, 2022 15:33 - 45 minutes - 42.1 MBIf there ever was a time that HR and business leaders needed to reimagine their future and how they approach managing people, it's right now. Ben M. Bensaou, author of Built to Innovate and Professor of Technology Management at INSEAD, (home of the Blue Ocean Strategy) says that HR "needs to begin taking "innovating seriously." Instead of reaching for one more piece of HR Tech (which is innovation), we need to create an innovating culture that gives people permission to innovate and take ris...
Live with Mo-Hamzian, CEO of VEL
January 06, 2022 23:02 - 45 minutes - 42.1 MBImagine yourself loving to go to work, where your office workspace is equipped with perfect air quality, light, sound, and personalized design (even if you're left-handed!). This workspace helps you be more efficient and productive, all while offering flexible privacy and psychological safety. Mo Hamzian took his love for working at what he calls “analog coffee shops'' and started VEL, a hyper-localized tech-enabled, highly productive workplace based on a coffee shop concept. Sounds pretty...
Modern HR is not about HR
December 30, 2021 14:33 - 45 minutes - 41.4 MBModern HR is not about HR, according to the “father of modern HR,” Dave Ulrich. Dave has eloquently described the major stumbling block in HR’s pursuit of change and leadership: HR is not about HR! For far too long HR has been clamoring that it wants a seat at the table. Dave's response: "If HR isn't at the table [in 2021,] you don't belong in HR!" So then ...what is HR about? Where does it belong? Why should a CEO rely on HR in the first place? Start by asking: What does HR contribute?...
Hiring and Recruiting Predictions 2022
December 23, 2021 00:01 - 43 minutes - 40.2 MBPlagued by the double whammy of a record number of job openings and employee resignations, many companies have opened up their purse strings to toss money at revolving doors of talent. But according to Recruiter.com chairman and CEO Evan Sohn, who is at the epicenter of what is going on, 75 percent of candidate priorities are not compensation-related. Paying more money isn’t the long-term solution. So what is? What’s going wrong in the job and labor markets and what must companies do right n...
Jobs, Labor, and What to Expect in 2022
December 16, 2021 15:20 - 45 minutes - 41.4 MBMaking the right business (and personal) decisions heading into 2022 can be freaking terrifying! We want certainty and predictability. We’re experiencing “VUCA-fatigue” from all the Volatility-Uncertainty-Complexity-Ambiguity). We’re hungry for facts and answers. Unfortunately facts these days get lost in the noise, misinformation, and abundance of bulls***. That’s why in one of our most favorite Geeks Geezers Googlization episodes each year, we’re excited to welcome the experts from ITR ...
Thinking About A Career Change? Start Here!
December 09, 2021 22:39 - 45 minutes - 42.2 MBIf you’re thinking that the first place to start a career change is your resume, think again. On this week's episode of the GGG Show, we're thrilled to welcome expert career transition coach, Amy Sanchez, of Swim Against The Current. And she has a tip for you: if the first thing you do before changing jobs is to get your resume ready, history will likely repeat itself! With the Great Awakening in full swing, many folks are seeking out greener pastures in their professional lives. The movem...
Reimagining the Future of Education
December 01, 2021 22:29 - 47 minutes - 43.3 MBSchools are opening back up but education will never be the same. Let’s start with a record number of teacher vacancies, alarming quit rates, and 1 out of 9 high schools that produce more dropouts than graduates. What changes are needed? Like teachers, answers are in short supply. But our guest today Dr. Kevin Berkopes of Crossroads Education and his team are tackling this issue head-on by researching, testing, and incubating disruptive concepts in education to prepare students for the futur...
Rocky Road to Hybrid Work
November 24, 2021 21:57 - 48 minutes - 44.2 MBThe much anticipated post-pandemic return to work has gotten off to a very rocky start. Getting hybrid work to work it seems is definitely tougher than going all-in on in-person or all-remote. A recent survey conducted by BambooHR revealed that one in three (37%) office workers actually said they feel worse being in the office than they did at their lowest point during remote work—and we can all remember some pretty low lows from the past year. Making all-or-none decisions as well as the wr...
Reimagine Your Tomorrow with Life-Work Integration
November 17, 2021 23:57 - 47 minutes - 43.1 MBIt’s your choice. What will it be in 2022? There is no get-out-of-jail-free card to escape uncertainty. Change is accelerating and there is no pause button. Our Geeks Geezers Googlization Show guest this week is no stranger to the show. Keith Campagna, long-term listeners might remember, was the 1st GGG co-host, before leaving to pursue his 2 life passions - sales and life-work integration. Keith shares why work-life balance just isn’t enough anymore and why we need to cancel our "default f...
How Hybrid Employee Experience Works
November 11, 2021 21:00 - 48 minutes - 44.8 MBOn the Geeks, Geezers, & Googlization Show as we welcome Gil Cohen, Founder of Employee Experience Design, to discuss the changing demand conditions from employees. R-E-S-P-E-C-T, find out what it means to me! Employees may not be singing this classic hit to their employers, but they're certainly telling them what they want and need in many other ways. Forty percent of the American workforce is expected to quit their current jobs by the end of the year even without another offer in hand (...
Staying Power, Becoming a MAGNET to Keep Employees
November 07, 2021 20:41 - 48 minutes - 44.9 MBThe Great Resignation is in full bloom. Quitting your job is no longer a black mark on your resume but a badge of honor on social media. No one should be surprised because complicated relationships rarely last very long. And yet up until just recently, most employers barely heard or intently ignored the shrill cries of employees: "Why don't my bosses care about me?" or "Why is it so hard for my company to listen to what I really need?" A quick fix is elusive but immediate change is essential...
9 Notable Leadership Skills of The Future Leader
October 27, 2021 22:33 - 48 minutes - 45.3 MBLeadership expectations are being transformed every second of every day. What has become painfully clear is that the leadership skills of yesterday won't solve or even manage the problems of tomorrow. To find the skills and mindsets that leaders will need to successfully navigate a never-normal VUCA world, Jacob Morgan interviewed the top CEO's around the world (140 +) for his latest best-selling book, The Future Leader. Geeks Geezers Googlization is excited to welcome Jacob on this epis...
Dare to Dream, Connect Purpose and Work
October 21, 2021 15:59 - 43 minutes - 40 MBWe all have dreams. But the fact is that 7.5 out of 10 people have experienced loss, trauma, or betrayal and if people don’t transform that energy, they transmit it. Many of these people become leaders of organizations! Over the last 18 pandemic months, there has been a lifetime supply of loss, trauma, and betrayal. The choice all of us need to make is whether we become victims or spur a transformation. This is a defining moment for employers. The employer-employee relationship is on trial. ...
Can Design Thinking Solve Your Hiring Woes?
October 06, 2021 23:00 - 48 minutes - 44.3 MBWith labor markets in freefall, there is no other business function that requires as much reimagination as recruitment and hiring. Can design thinking solve your organizations’ hiring woes and help companies fill their talent pipeline? Jodi Brandstetter, an ardent and passionate fan of design thinking, thinks so. In this week’s episode, you’ll learn what design thinking is and why Jodi feels it might just be the catalyst to transform your talent acquisition strategies. Before starting her...
Can Design Thinking Solve Your Hiring Woes?
October 06, 2021 23:00With labor markets in freefall, there is no other business function that requires as much reimagination as recruitment and hiring. Can design thinking solve your organizations’ hiring woes and help companies fill their talent pipeline? Jodi Brandstetter, an ardent and passionate fan of design thinking, thinks so. In this week’s episode, you’ll learn what design thinking is and why Jodi feels it might just be the catalyst to transform your talent acquisition strategies. Before starting her...
Post-Pandemic Legacy: The Hybrid Workplace
September 29, 2021 21:38 - 48 minutes - 44.3 MBCan your company culture survive when your workforce works remotely? Is it possible to create that spur-of-the-moment water-cooler or passing-in-the-hallway moments on Zoom? “Where do you work” took on a whole new meaning and importance beginning March 2020. Prior to that, people went to work and the hybrid work model was almost taboo. Today where, when, and how people work is evolving on an hour-to-hour basis. Organizations and businesses of all types and sizes are being forced to creat...
Let's Be Honest! Where Has Trust Gone?
September 22, 2021 19:54 - 48 minutes - 44.8 MBTrust is deteriorating all around us. We have lost trust in our government, military, police, public health officials, business leaders, and even neighbors and family members. And who hasn’t done something to break trust? To make sense of what’s happened to trust, we’re excited to welcome Dr. Yoram Solomon to this episode of Geeks Geezers Googlization. Yoram will explain why trust is not what most of us think it is and shares a few of his 8 laws of trust. You don’t want to miss his tips on h...
Google for Jobs Unleashed
September 15, 2021 20:29 - 48 minutes - 43.8 MBNo job candidate should be left behind. In a labor market when overall jobs are up 96% compared to pre-pandemic norms and job openings significantly exceed available workers, no company can afford to lose a candidate due to a friction-filled FCDD*up candidate experience. But in just a few weeks (October 2021) Google in its Google for Jobs search engine is going to throw another wrench into your recruitment and hiring efforts when it shines its massive spotlight on the job seeker apply experi...
68 Million Conversations But Is Anyone Listening?
September 09, 2021 00:00 - 48 minutes - 44.8 MBRecruiting and retention woes are wreaking havoc on businesses as a result of the collision of the Perfect Labor Storm and the Great Resignation. One reason why may be due to the “largest unheard conversation in history!” For starters, 68 million conversations happened in the last year around the candidate experience. To put that in perspective, that’s 2.5 X more than the 2020 Olympics! So why aren't employers listening? What do you need to do to pump the brakes on unfilled jobs and quit rat...
Recruiting Gen Z in a Tik-Tok World
September 01, 2021 23:43 - 47 minutes - 42 MBThis episode is a masterclass on what your company must do to recruit and retain Gen Z in a Tik-Tok World. Gen Z is the newest cohort to join the working ranks. Knowing how to attract Generation Z employees starts with understanding who they are and their job search habits. Meeting them on their own terms could be the difference between filling open jobs quickly and prolonged vacancies and high quit rates. What must your company do to recruit and retain Gen Z? That is the question we asked t...
What You Need to Know About Human Capital Management Disclosure
August 18, 2021 20:57 - 47 minutes - 43.9 MBEarly in May, the Workforce Investment Disclosure Act was introduced in Congress. Also referred to as Human Capital Management Disclosure, it will require public companies to disclose information about their workforce management policies. If the act is passed, these companies will need to include specific HR metrics in their public filing. What does this mean for your business? Many claim this act will be a game-changer and finally make companies to walk-the-talk when it comes to touting “p...
Top 100 HR Influencers of 2021
August 11, 2021 21:50 - 44 minutes - 40.9 MBEngagedly recently announced the “Top 100 HR Influencers of 2021” and Geeks Geezers Googlization host Ira S Wolfe was one of them! During the show, Wolfe interviews Engagedly’s President and Co-Founder, Srikant Chellappa, to discuss the origins of the the Top 100 Influencers List, how the honorees are selected, trends over the last 5 years, and how the 2021 list differed from prior years. This annual list recognizes Human Resources and People Services disruptors and leaders from across all...
Taming Employee Turnover
August 04, 2021 22:19 - 44 minutes - 40.5 MBThe quit rate of U.S. employees is at a record-breaking pace. In June 2021 alone, nearly 1 million workers left their jobs. This couldn’t come at a worse time with job openings reaching record highs and labor participation rates falling to WWII levels. Employee Turnover expert Dick Finnegan sums up this new work reality in two words: doom loop. The HR doom loop occurs when new employees don’t show up, ghost the employer, or quickly quit restarting the repeating churn of recruit, hire, quit, ...
How to Solve the Remote Work Puzzle
July 28, 2021 21:30 - 44 minutes - 41.6 MBIn March 2020, the physical workplace went dark for millions of businesses including a company called Puzzle Break. The multi-million dollar business went to $0 in one day. His entire business depended on teams of people going to his physical locations. So he asked “how can we create a similar experience when people can’t leave their house?” Millions of workers and employers were scrambling to figure out the same thing: how to make remote work work! Zoom just wasn’t cutting it for many organ...
Cognitive Dissonance: Where Have All The Workers Gone?
July 21, 2021 22:16 - 45 minutes - 42.1 MBWhere have all the workers gone? That is the question nearly every employer is asking. So I invited Futurist David Houle to tell us! Houle believes the 2020s will be the most disruptive and transformative decade in history. Never-normal will be the norm and our perception of reality will be challenged. Making sense of life’s unpredictable, fast-changing, and often incompatible events will make keeping up with the “shift” difficult. Millions of people are at risk of being left behind in what ...
Elevate and Monetize HR
July 14, 2021 20:38 - 45 minutes - 42.2 MBWhen it comes to filling open jobs these days, almost nothing should be off the table...and it's about time. The current labor shortage has finally forced companies to reimagine recruitment and think about HR in new and innovative ways. Elisa Garn, who calls herself a Human Experience Evangelist, came up with what she calls a crazy idea - Monetize HR. She says "the craziest thing, it worked" and she has the proof. Elisa is this week’s Geeks Geezers and Googlization Show guest and she shares...
Virtual Reality in HR and Stay Interviews
July 07, 2021 23:09 - 49 minutes - 45 MBFor years, virtual reality (VR) has been synonymous with gaming. Matt Burns, founder of Bento HR and Global HR Summit, is betting VR will be the technology that helps HR transform the way businesses recruit, train, and develop their workforce. Confronted with historic HR challenges from recruitment and retention to reskilling and upskilling, conventional and traditional HR approaches just aren’t working. The problem is that many HR professionals don’t have a clue how VR can be used and the p...
Microaggressions at Work
June 30, 2021 19:51 - 46 minutes - 42.3 MBMicroaggressions are a workplace reality. Nearly 50 percent of Americans have experienced some type of microaggression at work. Over time, microaggressions, even unintentional, can accumulate and build into out-and-out discrimination. What can leaders do to recognize microaggressions? How can leaders make sure their employees feel safe, included, and comfortable? Heather R Younger, founder of employee engagement and leadership development firm Employee Fanatix, will share 5 steps leaders can...
Game Changer: How To Be 10x in the Talent Economy
June 23, 2021 20:10 - 48 minutes - 44.5 MBRishon Blumberg isn't just any other game-changer in the world of talent acquisition and talent management. Rishon sources "rockstar" quality talent on demand, or what he calls 10X. His recent book is appropriately titled Game Changer: How To Be 10x in the Talent Economy which reveals the strategies companies and individuals can take to become 10X. What’s 10X and what does it take to acquire 10X talent? (You’ll have to listen for that tip!) Rishon is, first and foremost, an entrepreneur. It’...
Post-Pandemic Recruiting College Students and Recent Grads
June 16, 2021 22:36 - 47 minutes - 44 MBBefore February 2020, recruiting college students and recent graduates was a recurring annual tradition. Employers camped out on campus to secure the best and brightest for internships and jobs. Then COVID-19 hit and college campus activity came to a screeching halt. Now that the pandemic is basically behind us, how will college recruiting change? How did the pandemic impact internships? What is Amazon’s impact on recruitment and the labor market? Where are wages headed? For answers, Steven ...
Post-Pandemic Recruiting College Students and Recent Grads
June 16, 2021 22:36Before February 2020, recruiting college students and recent graduates was a recurring annual tradition. Employers camped out on campus to secure the best and brightest for internships and jobs. Then COVID-19 hit and college campus activity came to a screeching halt. Now that the pandemic is basically behind us, how will college recruiting change? How did the pandemic impact internships? What is Amazon’s impact on recruitment and the labor market? Where are wages headed? For answers, Steven ...
Post-Pandemic Recruiting College Students and Recent Grads
June 16, 2021 22:36Before February 2020, recruiting college students and recent graduates was a recurring annual tradition. Employers camped out on campus to secure the best and brightest for internships and jobs. Then COVID-19 hit and college campus activity came to a screeching halt. Now that the pandemic is basically behind us, how will college recruiting change? How did the pandemic impact internships? What is Amazon’s impact on recruitment and the labor market? Where are wages headed? For answers, Steven ...
Can Video Job Postings Help Fill Open Jobs Faster?
June 09, 2021 21:30 - 43 minutes - 39.5 MBStruggling to attract great candidates fast? Open positions suffocating your company’s growth plans? What trends are shaping the future of recruitment and talent acquisition? There is definitely no one size fits all and making the best choices can be confusing. From job postings to virtual career fairs, video is part of any effective solution. Why video? Because according to this week’s guest Lindsay Stanton, President of Digi-Me, video attracts more talent to your job postings, engages them...
The Future Workplace Will Be Hybrid. Now What?
June 02, 2021 23:13 - 47 minutes - 44 MBNine out of 10 companies will be embracing the hybrid workplace model according to a new McKinsey report. But 68 percent of them have no detailed plan. A recent Wall Street Journal described the emerging era of hybrid work “might be even more messy” than the work from home transition millions of workers experienced in 2020. What does the future of hybrid work mean for employees, talent acquisition, employee engagement, diversity & inclusion, and productivity? What must managers and leaders ...
Women in the Workplace, Diversity Hiring Practices
May 26, 2021 22:58 - 47 minutes - 43.4 MBWith job openings at an all-time high, it’s crunch time for companies to get diversity hiring right. Women dropped out of the workforce in droves during the pandemic (almost twice the rate of men) but many won’t be coming back unless companies start treating them fairly, equitably, and as equals. The change goes beyond policies. According to the FairyGodBoss survey on diversity recruiting, 98 percent of organizations say it's a priority, but only a fraction have made significant changes. On...
How to Get Millennials and GenZ to say "I Love It Here!" with Clint Pulver
May 20, 2021 18:55 - 49 minutes - 45.7 MBCan you imagine leading an organization where employees from all generations respond to “What’s it like to work here?” with “I love it here!” Instead of making Millennials and Gen Z scapegoats and labeling 100 Million people as lazy, disloyal, and work-ethic deficient, treat them as people. That's what Clint Pulver, as the Undercover Millennial, discovered after interviewing 10,000+ employees - that loyalty and engagement aren’t innate to different generations, but dependent on how managers...
Human Capital Management Meets Wall Street
May 12, 2021 22:19 - 50 minutes - 46.7 MBCompanies have promoted very proudly that “people are their most important asset.” But behind closed doors, they managed human capital as an expense. Recent changes, however, at The Securities and Exchange Commission now say “put up or be shut up!” Public companies are now required to disclose information about “human capital resources.” The lines between old-school workforce management and bottom-line growth are merging. While this new requirement currently only applies to public companies...
Recruitment Crickets? Your Hiring Sucks
May 05, 2021 18:53 - 47 minutes - 43.9 MBIf you’re hearing recruitment crickets, this could be why: your hiring process sucks! The economy is showing signs of a boom. The job market is heating up. The labor market is tight. Wages are rising and time-to-fill rates are rising. And yet, the top talent that companies seek, simply walk away and head straight to the competition. Why? HR and managers aren’t always on the same page. The values and expectations of hiring managers don’t align with the messaging used to attract candidates. On...