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The gender pay gap is a global problem, yet it has local implications. Ethical employers take the time to consider how they can actively dismantle the pay gap and make their workplaces fully equitable between men and women.

It’s incredibly demoralizing to go through the job search process, including writing a job description, researching the best places to post the description, responding to candidate applications, and interviewing potential new hires, only to lose your top candidates to competitors.

One of the things we help our clients do is figure out how to do a better job of capturing the attention of high-qualified job candidates. After all, if your ideal future employee doesn’t know you exist, how will you ever get to interview and hire them?

There are two competing strategies for negotiating with a new employee who is about to join your company, but only one of them is expected to become one of the biggest recruiting trends of 2019. Do you know which one it is?

Job candidates are familiar with the flutter in their stomach, the nervousness, the anxiety. They polish the answers to anticipated interview questions and they review their previous job experiences to figure out what will make them stand out. New clothes, nice accessories, maybe a manicure or a haircut before the interview— these are some of the ways that candidates prepare for interviews.

In the field of recruiting, we have a term for someone who isn’t currently looking for a job, but is the ideal match for an open position at another place of employment. These people are called “passive candidates.” Before we can talk about how to recruit them, we should first talk about why some companies need to recruit passive candidates in the first place.

How important is your online reputation to your company? Do you prioritize building your reputation through intentional strategy and best practices? Or are you putting this part of your business on the back burner, focusing instead on things like print marketing, great sales techniques, and excellent customer service?

Employee referral programs are one of the best ways to recruit new talent to your company. In the emerging trends for recruiting, they are definitely at the top of the list! These referral programs are an effective way to find new members for your team, and they also save you time and money.

In some ways, it’s a dream scenario: having multiple highly qualified candidates who are both applying for a job within your company. During a candidate-driven marketplace, when there tend to be more positions open than there are people to fill them, this situation becomes less common, and so you may have less practice over the past few years with making the hard decision between two great candidates.

In a candidate-driven market, job seekers often find themselves with the upper hand. They likely have numerous positions to apply for, and little competition from other candidates. This gives them the freedom to only consider jobs that they feel are an excellent fit with competitive pay and a workplace culture they want to be a part of.