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Need an account? Click here to register. Forgot password? Click here.If 2020 has taught us anything it’s that workforce agility is key not only to success but to survival. As the world shut down due to COVID-19 at the beginning of the year, businesses of all types and sizes also hunkered down – at home. Entire workforces – many of which had never previously worked …
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So we’re still talking among ourselves – a lot – about diversity and inclusion in hiring. We wrote here a couple of weeks ago about hiring for cultural fit, and how it can sometimes result in hiring for “unconscious bias.” We’re not done. Our virtual “water cooler” discussions are ongoing, and we’ve found that we …
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We conducted – admittedly unscientific – polls on LinkedIn recently (now closed) to both job seekers and hiring managers/company leaders. The results were….interesting: Each group was asked to rate among four choices what they believed was the “most important attribute in hiring”: Work experience Cultural fit Specific skill set College degree One hundred and sixty-nine …
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Analytics for SMBs For small to medium-sized businesses (SMBs), the ability to extract nuggets of insight from the data their business generates can allow them to create and sustain a competitive advantage. It wasn’t long ago when the cost and complexity of analytical software and skills made it infeasible for SMBs, but this is no …
We’ve been having some lively discussions in recent weeks here at The Intersect Group on diversity and inclusion in hiring. So much so – and so spirited have our talks been – that we thought it would be a good idea to bring this discussion to our blog every couple of weeks. We also thought we’d start …
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We certainly don’t have to tell you how the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the where-employees-work landscape, it’s also transformed the entire recruiting and hiring process. Most job interviews are conducted via video. Job fairs and college career fairs have gone almost entirely online. Which brings us to remote onboarding Whether you’re now hiring people to …
The widespread adoption of data analytics by organizations of all sizes… has been growing at an accelerating pace for a number of years – then came the Covid-19 pandemic. Prior to the pandemic, organizations had leveraged analytics in many ways including for operational improvements, cost savings, enhanced marketing optimization and performance, market research and competitor …
So, we have covered Google Principles #9 – “birds of a feather flock together” and #8 – “build a profitable business model personally and professionally”. Now is it time for #7 – keep it super simple! This is a simple saying and would seem to be an easy thing to accomplish, but it is not. …