The worldwide HR technology market size is forecasted to reach $39.90 billion in 2029, with a 7.5% CAGR during this period. Human resources technology is thriving because it can help businesses to streamline, ensuring their HR processes are more efficient and giving them a competitive edge. If you don’t integrate technology into your processes, you’re […]
Category: HR and Recruiting
What Is The Cost Of Absenteeism In The Workplace? What Businesses Can Do About It
Many factors contribute to the success or failure of a business organization. One of them is employees. With a great team comes a greater chance for your business to succeed. But that isn’t always the case since a business can face issues that can break its operations; one of them is workplace absenteeism. An Overview […]
7 HR Management Tools To Fill Any Remote Position in 30 Days
Image: Pixabay With three quarters of the global workforce considering remote working to be the “new normal” (a phrase we’ve heard countless times in recent years), it’s clear there’s little desire for workers to return to their workplaces full-time in the near future. Once thought of as a rare perk (or, more recently, a temporary […]
Retain Your Employees With These In-Demand Benefits
The average small business hires fewer than 20 employees, which is far below the employee threshold for most federally-mandated benefits. However, to remain competitive and reduce turnover, small business owners should still offer attractive benefits packages to their employees. Companies can choose from a range of financial and creative perks to show their appreciation for […]
Tips to Seamlessly Onboard New Remote Employees for Your B2B Company
When you’re running a B2B company, your staff is crucial to productivity, customer satisfaction and ultimate business success. However, a business’ vision and achievement cannot be realized if an employee is improperly or poorly trained. When it comes to remote employees, there could be potential threats of inadequate performance because there is no luxury of […]
Climb Above Competitors On The Job Market Ladder
Pixabay Source CCO License On average, it will take a candidate more than six months to find a position in their chosen industry. That’s why it’s important to take steps to guarantee that you are beating the competition when you pursue a role or new position in your career. Here are some of the factors […]
LinkedIn Data: Workplace Confidence Index
In this edition of the Workforce Confidence Index, LinkedIn looked at how open Canadians are to switching industries and the reasons for doing so, finding that better compensation was among the top reasons Canadian’s are making the switch. 57% of those who are open to new jobs said they were either currently considering changing industries (42%) or were […]
Cloud Innovations & the Workforce: In Conversation with Brent Weiss
COVID-19 hasn’t just demanded technical innovation for remote work. Tech is evolving to meet the needs of workers who have to show up in person during the pandemic too. That’s the message from ADP’s Senior Director of Data Cloud Strategy, Brent Weiss. ADP is known for its Human Capital Management Solutions. Those suites have now […]
What to Expect from Interviewing during the Pandemic
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, so many people have lost their jobs and are looking for work. It is especially difficult to look for a new job during this time. You may interview on Zoom, but if you do have an interview in person you will probably wear a mask and physically distance from the […]
Ten Ways to Invest More Into Your Employees and Strengthen Morale
Finding the perfect employee takes time and money, and losing well-trained and valuable staff costs your company. You miss out on the experience someone who’s been with your business for years brings to the table, and you also lose momentum as you wait for a new worker to learn the ropes. A U.S. Bureau of […]
Abacus Data research: Young Canadians’ Lives “Fundamentally Altered” by Pandemic
In September 2020, Abacus Data completed a nationally representative survey with 1,000 Canadian youth aged 15 to 30. Read the full report. The purpose of this research was two-fold: 1. To understand the impacts and perspectives of the pandemic thus far for Canadian youth. 2. To explore their ideas for recovery from the pandemic. Youth […]
The Toll of Emotional Labour at Work during COVID-19
Coffee, Tea or Exhausted Me? By Kate Baggott Feeling more exhausted during the pandemic? It’s probably the extra emotional labour you’ve been doing. What is emotional labour? Over the past several weeks, much has been said and written about the increased load on women as they carry the greater demands of household labour and home […]
UPDATED: The Shecession Pandemic: Covid-19 is worse for women and the economy
Read part 2: Devolving from She-cession to Recession Read part 3: What is happening to business right now? Adrienne lives in fear of another school closure. The 35 year-old Registered Practical Nurse (RPN) is a single mother of two school-age children. She works in an urban hospital in Southern Ontario. “I’ve been job-sharing throughout the […]
How to write job postings that will attract the B2B talent you need
Would you buy this car? The Jeep Wrangler is a series of compact and mid-size (Wrangler Unlimited and Wrangler 2-door JL) four-wheel drive off-road SUVs, manufactured by Jeep since 1986, and currently in its fourth generation. The Wrangler JL, the most recent generation, was unveiled in late 2017 and is produced at Jeep’s Toledo Complex.The Wrangler is arguably an indirect progression from the World […]
If you want the best talent, why is your candidate experience so terrible?
Hands up if you have had a terrible experience as a candidate for a job. I thought so. I recently heard from a friend that she had endured seven rounds of interviews for a role and then learned, on LinkedIn of all places, that someone else had landed the job. Sure, employers used to get […]
IBM’s CHRO demonstrates how to position yourself as the voice of HR transformation
This article originally appeared in our bi-weekly newsletter, the B2B Briefing. Sign up using the fields to the right of this page to get this kind of content before anyone else. It’s not like IBM has a shortage of experts to talk about technology and its impact on the workforce, so the choice of Diane […]
5 Quick and dirty ways to fast-track your recruitment process
My client is the place that helps you figure out your high end vacuum cleaner by phone or live chat They also sell lines of credit, enrol employees in benefits plans, talk you through furniture assembly and reset passwords for obscure software. As call centres go, this one is pretty good. They offer above average […]
Why the employee experience is key for CHROs
Canadians spend 90,000 hours of our lives at work. Naturally, everyone wants this to be a place they enjoy spending time. Yet many Canadians feel something is missing for them at work; a survey found close to 60 per cent of Canadian office workers wish their work was more meaningful. This is quite a compelling […]
Editor’s Note: The very specific marketing campaigns B2B CHROs need to lead
Sometimes I’m tempted to just apply to jobs that I’m completely unqualified for and explain it by saying, “LinkedIn made me do it.” Based on the fact I write a lot about marketing, advertising and the tools to do it, for example, it’s not uncommon for LinkedIn to recommend roles for me such as “Director […]
How Chief People Officers can use PR for B2B success
As the head of human resources (or Chief People Officer) for a B2B company, did you know that there are key public relations, or PR, activities you can use to hire top talent, avoid crises and help business growth overall? Use PR as Your Secret Advantage in HR Public relations’ activities are not just for […]