Workplace Bias Over the past half-century, employers have made great strides in protecting employees and applicants from conscious bias on the basis of race, gender, age, and other protected characteristics. But what about unconscious—or “implicit”—bias, which “refers to the attitudes or stereotypes that affect our understanding, actions, and decisions in an unconscious manner”? 1 Everyone has implicit […]
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Talent Shortage: Great for Employees; Concerning for Employers It’s here, it’s real, and it’s simultaneously stressful and awesome. The current talent shortage is great for employees and job seekers, but it’s also creating intense competition as companies try both to hire more employees and to onboard new staff properly. “It’s great to be hiring,” Allison […]
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We highly value our strong relationships with the people we serve. Trusting partnerships garner candid feedback. And, feedback from our clients helped us realize we were missing opportunities to serve them. Today, we would like to introduce you to our Professional Search Division, the solution to that missed opportunity. Since this solution involves our parent […]
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Avoid these 9 Phone Interview Blunders A phone interview is usually the first step in the hiring dance. We’ve done the interview ‘waltz’ with a lot of prospective food and beverage candidates through the years! Some have left us with metaphorical foot blisters while others have swept us off our feet. To assist food and […]
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Considering the number of articles, books, and lectures that have emerged in recent years about how building positive workplace cultures and a better employee experience can have a positive impact on business goals, one might expect organizational trust to be on the rise. But a recent study by EY found that “less than half of […]
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Understanding Equal Pay & the Impact You Can Have Are you able to ask candidates for their salary history in your state or city? If so, you may not be for long. If you are hiring employees in California, Connecticut (effective Jan 1, 2019), Delaware, Hawaii (effective Jan 1, 2019), Massachusetts, New Jersey, New […]
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With so much focus lately on Millenials, what can employers do to support another group of employees, the Sandwich Generation? Employees in the Sandwich Generation, who are caring not only for their children but also for their own aging parents, often struggle to balance all of this responsibility. According to the Northeast Business Group on […]
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Leadership: Is There Such A Thing As Born Leaders? Or, Is Leadership Learned? While our lives and careers can often find themselves in predictable patterns–go to school, get a job, work hard, rise to the top–there’s one little secret that most leaders never like to talk about. It’s a reality that can make us feel […]
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The bad hire. You’re not alone if you’ve ever regretted hiring a candidate after the fact. The new hire is flailing, your hiring manager is frustrated, HR is trying to ensure they stay long enough to not be a total loss, and the CFO is wondering if he can take the recruitment costs and lost […]
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As we inch closer to the end of the year, it’s natural to reflect on what we are grateful for in life. Many workers, it turns out, are not including their job on their gratitude list this year. How do we know? Gallup’s State of the American Workplace report found more than half (51%) of workers are […]
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