By: By: Liz Ryan It is shameful but true that many employers prefer to hire currently-employed job applicants over applicants who aren’t working. Beyond that, many employers prefer to reach out to currently-employed people and ask them “Would you consider working for us?” These folks are called “passive candidates.” They aren’t even candidates for a…
Read MoreIt’s time to face facts: Employees throughout the world are are struggling to compete in a fast-moving and dynamic global job market, thanks to an unprecedented number of technological advancements and highly linked information networks. The pace of transformational technological change has been greater in the past few decades than we have seen in all…
Read MoreCathy Engelbert, CEO at Deloitte As the old French adage goes, plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose: the more things change, the more they stay the same. But that was before the physical, biological, and digital worlds began merging to give us what I refer to as the “Fusion Revolution,” disrupting whole industries…
Read MoreBy: Aaron Skonnard A growing skills gap means one thing: we need more people to fill technology jobs. And with just 25.6 percent of the computing workforce made up of women, despite accounting for almost half of the U.S. labors force; it’s clear the tech industry is overdue for its “Rosie the Riveter” moment. Gender…
Read MoreBy: J.T. O’Donnell While speaking recently on the subject of transitioning your mindset away from seeing yourself as an “employee” and embracing the reality that we are all now “businesses-of-one” who are responsible for owning our success more fully, a participant stood up and asked,What’s the worst salary negotiation mistake I can make?” Uggh. There…
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