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Recruiting Millennials: What the New Largest Cohort Wants in a Workplace

Recruiting Millennials: What the New Largest Cohort Wants in a Workplace

Today, just about everyone is interested in how to recruit and retain millennials, i.e., the population born between 1981 and 1996. This year, millennials surpassed Baby Boomers as the largest living population cohort, with more than 73 million of them in the marketplace. With the unemployment rate at its lowest rate since 1969, recruiting millennials should be an important part of any company’s hiring strategy. Now that millennials are the largest demographic bloc in a work environment and...

Top 7 Strategies for Healthcare Recruiting

Top 7 Strategies for Healthcare Recruiting

In early 2019, the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) confirmed that America will face a critical shortage of clinical providers by 2032. The news forced a collective sigh from healthcare recruiters around the country, who were already facing historic unemployment levels for non-clinical teams. With shortages of physicians, nurses, and midlevels looming, one thing is clear; the healthcare industry faces significant talent gaps and workplace shortages that will likely only get...

HR Process Automation: How an ATS Can Streamline Your Onboarding

HR Process Automation: How an ATS Can Streamline Your Onboarding

Bringing new employees into your company is exciting – after a thorough application, interview, and vetting process, it’s time for their first day. New employees are ready to learn about the company; they want to meet their new team and learn about a new job.  So, why ask employees to start their first day by filling out a pile of forms? Furthermore, modern employees often work remotely or apart from where the HR team works, so filling out a pile of new-hire documents and getting them to...

Why Not Having an OFCCP Compliance Solution Could Be Devastating

Why Not Having an OFCCP Compliance Solution Could Be Devastating

The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) is a division of the U.S. Department of Labor. If you have a government contract, you’re likely already familiar with it. Its role is to ensure that employers who work with the government are compliant with laws against discrimination; its purpose is to protect employees, or potential employees, from being excluded from being hired or receiving raises based on things like race, color, religion, gender, and age. OFCCP Financial Remedies...

When Should Recruiters Not Bother with Employment Applications?

When Should Recruiters Not Bother with Employment Applications?

For many applicants, today’s online application process is the black hole of the job search. Candidates wade through a bureaucratic employment portal that requires a login, a resume upload, and redundant manual entry of the same data already found on the CV. Often, these portals have technical problems that cause hiccups in the application process. If you do make it through, the automated system may discard you immediately because you don’t have enough keywords to fit the job.This is exactly...