Are performance-based pay structures worth all of the hassle? It feels like the amount of effort that goes into these pay structures might not be worth the squeeze. Typically performance-based pay requires the measurement of key performance indicators. That means that I’m paying someone to measure all of the “stuff.” That’s fine for me because as we know, you can’t …
Negotiating Rates, Closing Recruiters, and Knowing Your Value.
Hands down, salary is always the most sensitive part of any recruiter/candidate conversation. A little more than a year ago, I wrote about how important it is to know what you want to be paid. I still think that is vital for each and every job seeker to know so that they are able to answer the question… “What is …
What Would Hotel Tonight Look Like for Jobs?
My friend Tim Sackett tweeted this question out last week–what’s the Hotel Tonight of jobs? For the uninitiated, Hotel Tonight is another on-demand app. Similar to Uber but for hotels, it allows you to scan the area you are in or are traveling to in order to pick up a great deal on a hotel at the level you’re looking for–budget, …
I Was Ghosting Jobs Back When Ghosting Wasn’t Cool
Who says there’s no such thing as “fake” news? This goes through my head whenever I read about how the “ghosting” trend (people skipping job interviews, failing to show up when they get hired, or bailing from a new job with no warning) is disrupting recruiting and hiring, because the more I hear about it, the more I’m convinced that ghosting is …
WEBINAR: How to Hire When Unemployment is at Historic Lows
Gather ‘round talent buffs and let me tell you a story – of a time not so long ago in a land not so far away. A little agency called The Bureau of Labor Statistics (you may have heard of them) released a report claiming that the unemployment rate dropped below 4% for the first time in 15 years. Did …
(FOT WEBINAR TOMORROW!) The Forgotten Majority: 7 Techniques to Trump Up Your Hourly Hiring
TOMORROW: FOT is hosting our very first webinar on mass hourly hiring! Register via the links below or directly in the form below! In 2017 there will be over a thousand webinars on how to hire more IT talent, 15,285 blog posts on how to hire more IT talent, 100s of new technologies will be released on how to hire …
John Whitaker Explains Why the Hourly Workers Shall Inherit the Earth…
Volume recruiting. The bane of the recruiting experience. I don’t care how good you are as a recruiting professional, until you’ve put on the flame suit and sat in a volume recruiting chair, you’ll never be able to fully appreciate the job – OR the people who successfully DO the job. Like your mailbox, you can clear it out every …
VIDEO: SmashUps with Neil Morrison – The State of Hourly Hiring
This month on SmashUps, Tim talks to Neil Morrison, the Director of Strategy, Culture and Innovation at Penguin Random House UK. Both Tim and Neil have had their fair share of mass hiring for corporations that have tens of thousands of hourly workers. With this insight, they dig into the state of hiring hourly employees, as well as some tips …
(FOT Webinar!) The Forgotten Majority: 7 Techniques to Trump Up Your Hourly Hiring
In 2017 there will be over a thousand webinars on how to hire more IT talent, 15,285 blog posts on how to hire more IT talent, 100s of new technologies will be released on how to hire more IT talent. You won’t see a fraction of that help when it comes to hiring Hourly Workers! Why? The majority of hiring …
The New Brutal Reality of Hourly Hiring
Hourly hiring is the toughest it’s been in a decade! On any single day, there are millions of hourly jobs available in the U.S. In 2016, hourly job growth in the food and beverage industry outpaced broader economic job growth by 4X! There are so many hourly jobs available right now, the only reason not to have a job, at …