August 02, 2024 How to tell if you are a personality hire On social media, workers are dividing themselves into ‘technical hires’ and ‘personality hires.’ Which one are you? BY Henry Chandonnet Hiring managers are looking for many things in future employees: practical skills, efficient work ethic, a goal-oriented mindset. But for some, personality defines a … Continue reading How to tell if you are a personality hire
June 29, 2024 Employers believe this is the age you’re too old to hire. This is why they’re wrong “I was willing to risk losing a lucrative contract to make sure that the prospect did not know how old I was but I succumbed to telling the truth. Deep down, I felt that I had … Continue reading Employers believe this is the age you’re too old to hire. This is why they’re wrong
May 15, 2024 How to hire for culture when ‘culture fit’ can be dangerous and exclusive InHerSight’s Beth Castle explains what to do when “Culture is nebulous, ‘culture fit’ is restrictive and can forge a dangerous path toward groupthink and exclusion, and often, even behavioral interview questions fail to address that certain, for lack of … Continue reading How to hire for culture when ‘culture fit’ can be dangerous and exclusive
May 09, 2024 The right way to hire an AI-ready workforce Bad hiring decisions waste time, money, and productivity. To avoid hiring mistakes, this tech leader suggests a rigorous 3-step “structured interview.” BY Heide Abelli The strategic deployment of AI technologies is central to maintaining and enhancing competitive advantage in today’s digital economy. The expectation is … Continue reading The right way to hire an AI-ready workforce
May 23, 2024 Why it’s a big mistake to hire tech workers who show no sign of this The failure to look for this trait directly impacts the ability to best serve a multigenerational workforce and customer base, this tech leader writes. BY Jen Brown The tech sector has a growing skills gap, but it’s not … Continue reading Why it’s a big mistake to hire tech workers who show no sign of this
May 08, 2024 This new ‘decarceration index’ ranks companies that avoid prison contracts and hire formerly incarcerated workers FreeCap Financial worked with investment index company BITA to create FreeIn, which ranks companies committed to fair hiring practices, among other efforts. BY Ellie Stevens For the past decade, large institutions and even cities have been eliminating their … Continue reading This new ‘decarceration index’ ranks companies that avoid prison contracts and hire formerly incarcerated workers
By Paul Adler January 22, 2024 It is the last session of my MBA course on business and environmental sustainability and the room is buzzing. After a semester studying how businesses can help tackle climate change, students are about to vote on whether voluntary action by the private sector will be enough, or, if … Continue reading I’m a socialist professor at a business school. Here’s why business schools should hire more of us
Consider these cost-effective alternatives to expanding your team’s capabilities and ensuring marketing success. Tim Parkin on October 4, 2023 Hang on a minute. Do you really need another marketer on your team? Or is there a different way to look at the situation? Hiring is costly, time-consuming and distracting for your team. Moreover, adding a … Continue reading Before you hire another marketer, do these 5 things first
With hackajob marketing technologists and tech workers in general can expect employers to apply to them rather than vice versa. Kim Davis on July 20, 2023 “We flip the model, so rather than a candidate applying to the job, the company applies to the engineer.” That’s Mark Chaffey, co-founder and CEO of Hackajob, a London-based … Continue reading If every company is now a technology company, how should they hire tech talent?
By Whitney Pastorek May 07, 2023 After decades spent following my heart instead of my bank account into a series of delightfully creative careers, I got laid off in the first month of the pandemic. It sucked. But I pulled up my freelancer bootstraps, and since 2020 I’ve served as a congressional staffer, written … Continue reading Want to hire someone creative? Don’t do any of these things
