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Recruiting

Are your job posts too vague?

12/13/2022
Employers have only 14 seconds to hook potential job applicants, according to LinkedIn. Obviously, the words you use in a job post are important, as is the job description itself. Yet vague language persists when describing goals for the position and how success is measured.

Snapshot: AI in recruiting helps, but it’s people who close the deal

12/06/2022
A study of 1,068 employers by customer service platform Tidio revealed that artificial intelligence is handling more recruiting tasks.

New year, new laws: Update your compliance!

11/29/2022
States have new laws about human trafficking reporting, hair discrimination, family leave, wage transparency, artificial intelligence and surveillance.

Could affirmative action cases affect you?

11/29/2022
The Supreme Court is pondering two cases questioning affirmative action in university admissions.

So you want to hire a disabled veteran

11/22/2022
The EEOC has laid out specific steps employers may take to recruit and hire veterans with disabilities.

Are you missing the best candidates? Defeat the robots

11/22/2022
Given the ease of online portals, posting a job opening online is easy and inexpensive. But a survey by Preptel, a job search firm, revealed that well over half of résumés submitted through a portal like Indeed or ZipRecruiter never make it to your desk.

Recruiting visa workers? Include a salary range

11/22/2022
When requesting work visas from the federal government, employers know they must justify the move by showing they haven’t found American workers for open positions. But there’s no specific DOL requirement that job postings aimed at foreign recruits include salary ranges. That may mean that bringing those workers here may violate state and local wage transparency laws.

Hiring disabled workers? No time like the present

11/17/2022
For disabled workers, the pandemic has been both a crisis and an opportunity—a crisis because so many suffer from disability-related morbidities that make getting infected very dangerous, and an opportunity because remote work flourished. Plus, the shortage of workers has meant more chances for disabled applicants to be hired than ever before.

Snapshot: Pay up and tell us all about it

11/15/2022
Pay transparency is affecting recruiting. A strong majority (85%) stated that they are more likely to apply for a job whose listing included a salary range.

New pay transparency law invites huge pay ranges

11/08/2022
A salary range of $0 to $2 million for a client service position at Citigroup is among the new, rather broad salary ranges appearing among New York City job openings after the implementation of a new salary transparency law in New York.