Expert Advice to Help You Hire and Retain Top Performers
Are Your Employees At Work Or Are They Absent?
Are your employees at work or are they somewhere else? We’ve got workers who, in theory, are showing up for work every day, although they aren’t doing much in terms of work. They log into their computers, move some files around, answer a couple of emails, and work diligently to do as little as possible. They’re rarely confronted about their behavior because the majority of leaders hate confrontation. So, here’s what they do instead.
The Case For Providing a Positive Candidate Experience
First, to fix a problem, you must recognize you have a problem. Start by asking yourself the following questions:
Are other people in my industry fully staffed, or am I the only one that seems to be struggling?
Has our applicant flow dropped lately, and if so, do I know why?
Have I seen a noticeable difference in the number of candidates turning down our offers? If the answer is yes, do I know why this is so?
Are my people trained in the art of employee selection?
Why You Can’t Find Workers and How to Change This
If you’ve been having a hard time filling job openings, you’re not alone. Around 4 million adults aren’t looking for jobs, not because they’re scarce but because of worries about catching the coronavirus.
A year after the pandemic arrived in the U.S., 8.4 million fewer Americans are holding jobs.
There are many reasons for this, but one of the most important and least spoken about is fear.
A U.S. Census survey done in mid-March found that approximately 4.2 million adults are not working because they fear getting or spreading the coronavirus.
This helps to explain why some companies say labor is hard to find even though the unemployment rate is 6%. It looks like the only thing that will change this is our ability to get this virus under control.
Their fear is real.
Here’s how to overcome this.
Three Vital Essentials Every Leader Needs for Growing Evergreen Talent
If you’ve been having a hard time filling job openings, you’re not alone. Around 4 million adults aren’t looking for jobs, not because they’re scarce but because of worries about catching the coronavirus.
A year after the pandemic arrived in the U.S., 8.4 million fewer Americans are holding jobs.
There are many reasons for this, but one of the most important and least spoken about is fear.
Evergreen Leadership Lessons Learned from the Ever Given Fiasco
What a mess. What the heck happened with the leadership at Ever Given? Last week, the Panama-flagged, Japanese-owned container ship The Ever Given, operated by Taiwan-based Evergreen Marine, found itself cross-ways in the Suez Canal when it ran aground. The ship found...
Finding the right talent is hard.
Finding the right talent that will prosper and stay is even harder when you do it alone.
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Finding the right talent is hard. Finding the right talent that will prosper and stay is even harder when you do it alone.
Subscribe to Roberta's Talent Maximizer® and receive weekly insights to help you hire and retain top performers. PLUS receive The Evergreen Talent® Workbook for free - a guide to help you hire and cultivate a sustainable workforce.