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7 Employee Development Myths To Stop Believing

by Veronica Blatt

Today’s guest blogger is Justin Lowe. Justin is the director of global marketing and business development at McQuaig, a global leader in talent management solutions. McQuaig assessments are designed to provide a deeper insight into a candidate’s personality, cognitive, and behavioral attributes. With over 50 years of experience, McQuaig assessments provide a comprehensive view of a candidate and their potential to succeed in a organization while shedding light on the most important areas of employee development. Read the post below for a good discussion on common myths about employee development.

When it comes to learning and development, everyone has an opinion about what the best method to use is. How can you help your employees learn as effectively as possible as fast as possible? What learning tactic is better than another? Read the rest of this entry »

Recruitment Strategies for a Post-COVID World

by Veronica Blatt

Our guest blogger today is People2.0, the world’s largest global employer of record (EOR) and agent of record (AOR) services platform, created exclusively to serve the talent ecosystem. Their capabilities enable talent providers to expand their value proposition, optimize opportunities to access global talent, and create a borderless world of unlimited growth for their business. Read about new methods of talent procurement below.

Recruitment has changed significantly during the pandemic. Business changes that started as necessary responses to a crisis, including remote work, hybrid offices, and virtual interviews, are now shaping the future of recruitment. Employee values have also shifted dramatically, initiating the Great Resignation. Many industries are dealing with unprecedented labor shortages as more workers are reconsidering their priorities and reassessing their relationship with work. Read the rest of this entry »

Please List Salary Range on Job Postings!

by Veronica Blatt

There has been a lot of discussion about salary range data over the past couple of years. Laws preventing employers from asking a candidate’s salary history continue to be added around the USA. New laws are emerging requiring employers to publish salary information in their job postings. This issue isn’t going to disappear anytime soon, especially as legislators and employers work to increase transparency and eliminate discriminatory pay gaps. I am firmly in the camp of “salary should be disclosed up front” and here are some of the reasons why: Read the rest of this entry »

10 Common Cyber Security Risks For Businesses

by Veronica Blatt

Today’s guest blogger is HUB International, an NPAworldwide partner. HUB International provides a wide range of business and personal insurance options including liability, health, life, and more. Read more about cyber security risks below.

Cyberattacks have massive negative business impact and were ranked as a top 5 priority by 79% of global organizations. The growth of cyber risk is also in large part associated to the expanding use of technology as a value driver. Businesses rely upon strategic initiatives like outsourcing, use of third-party vendors, cloud migration, mobile technologies, and remote access—all of which has proliferated during the COVID-19 pandemic—to augment growth and improve efficiency. However, this leading edge activity also increases cyber security risk exposure. As cyber risk has evolved from a technology issue to an organizational problem that exposes corporate leadership to liability arising from claims by shareholders, employees, and the public, cybercrime has grown exponentially. This surge in cybercrime has resulted in money damages reported to the FBI’s cybercrime reporting mechanism of $4.2 billion, up from $3 trillion in 2015. Read the rest of this entry »

No Resume, No Degree, No Problem

by Dave Nerz

In many markets, job openings are running at record levels. Employers are fishing for talent in a limited pool of candidates. This tight labor market is leading more employers to accept more non-traditional qualifications for candidates with no degree. So you realize you are not alone, sixty percent of employers say they are at least thinking of hiring non-degree candidates this year, up from 40% in 2019, according to a survey of 1,200 employers by the online learning company Pearson. Read the rest of this entry »

Can Recruiters Address New HR Priorities?

by Dave Nerz

The pandemic turned the work world on its head. Things shut down, moved out of the office and then into employee’s homes. Meetings, work and employee reviews went online. Major shifts with unprecedent speed.

Human resource professionals were surveyed about top HR priorities in a report called the HR Sentiment Survey done in early 2020 and recently recalibrated for 2021. In 2020, top HR priorities included: Read the rest of this entry »

The Do’s and Don’ts of Recruiting: How to Prevent Bad Hires

by Veronica Blatt

Today’s guest blogger is Fernando Ortiz-Barbachano of Barbachano International in San Diego, California (USA). Barbachano International is the premier executive search and leadership advisory firm in the Americas with a focus on diversity and multicultural target markets. The firm is a longtime NPAworldwide member, having joined in 2007. He shares some tips below to help avoid bad hires.

Executive recruiting has a clear goal in mind: hire the best person to fill a job opening. But we all know that sometimes the process leads even the best hiring manager or recruiter astray. Sometimes the person who was so impressive during interviews turns out to be a bad hire — and often this happens with no warning signs whatsoever. Read the rest of this entry »

Winning the War For Talent

by Liz Carey

We’re in uncharted territory. With nearly 10 million unfilled jobs in the US, a record number of employers are reporting a talent shortage. Because of the incredible demand for talent and fierce competition, employers are beginning to take different routes to not only attract new candidates, but retain their current talent who are likely being wooed by other companies and recruiters.

Here are a few tactics recruiters have reported their clients are using in this “war for talent”: Read the rest of this entry »

How To Write Remote Job Descriptions

by Veronica Blatt

Today’s guest blogger is Eve Davies-Greenwald. Eve is a content specialist at McQuaig, a global leader in talent management solutions. McQuaig assessments are designed to provide a deeper insight into a candidate’s personality, cognitive, and behavioral attributes. With over 50 years of experience, McQuaig assessments provide a comprehensive view of a candidate and their potential to succeed in a organization while shedding light on the most important areas of employee development. Read the post below for a good discussion about writing effective remote job descriptions.

Most hiring processes start by creating a job description you hope will catch candidates’ attention. Often a job post is a candidate’s first interaction with a company and many decide whether or not to apply to a role based purely on the ad. With so much riding on how you describe a position, getting it wrong can mean a longer time to hire and cost you potentially strong candidates. Our newly remote world isn’t helping matters either. Without conferences or networking opportunities to source talent in-person, what you say in your job posts matters more then ever. So what can you do to update your job descriptions for a virtual world? Read the rest of this entry »

Create a Risk Management Process to Develop Organizational Resilience

by Veronica Blatt

Today’s guest blogger is Ed McConnell with HUB International, discussing best practices for organizational resilience. HUB International provides a wide range of business and personal insurance options including liability, health, life, and more.

Typically, about 80% of small businesses in the U.S. will survive their first year, but only half of the 400,000 new businesses that open their doors annually will still be around five years later.[1]

Consider the following statistics: Read the rest of this entry »

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