How to Make the Most of the Shortened Holiday Work Week

By The Intersect Group

Christmas and New Years fall right in the middle of the work week this year, which could result in a serious loss of productivity if you don’t plan accordingly. To make the most of the holiday lull that will inevitably happen before, during and after both of these big holidays this year, here is how …

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The Modern Tenure Program: How to Reward Today’s Employee

By The Intersect Group

Among many other things, millennials have been referred to as the “Job-Hopping” Generation. This trend combined with the uptick in the gig economy and it’s easy to see why the modern-day program for rewarding tenured employees may be in need of a major facelift. With fewer and fewer employees making it to key milestone dates …

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How to Pipeline Talent This Holiday Season

By The Intersect Group

The talent market is tight. And the unemployment rate has changed very little, holding currently at 3.6 percent. As an employer, it can be frustrating and daunting to try to find much needed talent. To pipeline talent, hopefully before it’s needed too desperately, try these four strategies: Build Your Brand: Building a strong employer brand …

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In Addition to Staffing, Here’s What Else Your Staffing Provider Should Be Doing for You

By The Intersect Group

As a client company working with a staffing provider, your staffing partner should be: Positively contributing to your employer brand. Pipelining talent ahead of hiring needs. Attracting your targeted hiring profile(s) to your company. Decreasing time-to-fill rates and making markedly positive contributions to other key hiring metrics. Improving your employee retention and engagement rates. A …

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Making Finance & Accounting Hires? Here’s When to Turn to Executive Search

By The Intersect Group

Not unlike the differences between finance and accounting, there are different staffing models – and terms and conditions – depending on the role and responsibilities, the level of the open position, and, in some cases, the number of open positions there are. For high volume staffing, a managed service provider (MSP) or recruitment process outsourcing …

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5 Team-Building Tips from a Former Green Beret

By The Intersect Group

Green Berets are known as “the quiet professionals.” Their operations are designed to be done in secret, and for their work to go largely unnoticed and unrecognized. To operate this way takes a great deal of planning, cooperation, and, teamwork. Medically retired Green Beret Patrick Gaumond, had these team building tips to share in a …

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Blockchain Technology: 2020

By The Intersect Group

Blockchain, the secured, encrypted, decentralized digital ledger used to record transactions, is not mainstream yet – but it’s getting there, slowly. Investments this year by the likes of FedEx, IBM, Mastercard and Walmart – even Facebook has its own blockchain technology, Libra – could lead to more universal adoption in the years to come. Blockchain …

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Hiring Managers, Are You Getting Ghosted by Your Candidates? Here’s Why.

By The Intersect Group

It’s Halloween week! But candidate ghosting is a phenomenon that can happen all year long – if you don’t know how to correct it. What is Candidate Ghosting? Ghosting is when someone ends all communication, usually abruptly, without an explanation. Ghosting can happen over LinkedIn, email, or the candidate can just stop taking your calls. …

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