By Kevin Roth HR: What are your salary expectations? - Candidate: I would need a minimum of $100K HR: OK great! I'm putting you forward to next round. ***Round 2*** Hiring Manager: This s...

By Jason Miller It’s been called “The Great Resignation” and “Resignationgate.” The simple gist is that, according to a Microsoft global survey, 41% of employees plan to switch jobs this year, and 46...

By Kevin Roth The most critical time in recruiting a new hire comes AFTER they accept your offer. Don’t get comfortable! Candidates go through an emotional roller coaster that leaves the station a...

By Giancarlo Di Vece We're going through a period that some are calling the “great resignation,” where there is added attrition and a kind of dynamism in the market. Going forward in this post-pandem...

By Kevin Roth “She is the best candidate we have seen so far, but she only has 8 out of 10 items on our wish list.” - So teach her the other two!!! The 10 out of 10 candidate does not exist in...

By Kevin Roth If you have any intention of landing a top candidate in this market, you need to design an efficient interview process and stick with it! We're pre-programmed to focus on tasks that...

By Mark Murphy When HR executives tell me that they want to improve their corporate culture, they often imagine a workplace where employees are socially connected, people collaborate, leaders are emp...

By Forbes Councils Members There's some merit to the phrase “work hard to play hard.” But with workers devoting their all to a business, especially when it's just getting off the ground, it can be ea...

By Clara Shih A great customer experience starts with happy employees. But many workers aren’t happy right now — they’re stressed and ready for a change. Over 40% of the global workforce is thinking...

By Glassdoor Imagine it's your first day at a new company. You have a knot in your stomach and you feel nervous. You walk in the front door of your new office building and as you grab the handle, you...

By Kevin Roth A member of your team just handed in their resignation. Before you panic and scramble to put together a counter-offer, take a step back to better understand the circumstances. Most peo...

By Doug Ramsthel A recent paper published by McKinsey Global Institute entitled “The future of work after COVID-19” highlights various changes in the workplace because of the pandemic. The paper also...

By Kevin Roth Dear Senior Leadership, if you have either already implemented or plan to implement a 4-5 day mandatory office schedule, make sure you have a strategy in place for the employees that yo...

By Mark Murphy Have you ever seen two employees in the same department who have radically different feelings about their manager? One employee thinks, “Sure, the boss pushes us to develop our weaknes...

By Kevin Roth She can start right after her bonus gets paid out 4 weeks from today. - “We need her sooner” Are you able to give her a sign-on to offset that bonus? - “We can maybe offer her...

By Tyler Hibler and Michaeli Hennessy As vaccine distribution becomes widespread and employees begin to return to work, we continue to field questions related to return-to-office plans. Below are som...

By Kevin Roth “Good news! He’s accepting the offer and excited to join. As an FYI, he’ll just need one Friday off in June for a wedding.” OK, no problem but it will be an UNPAID day because he won...

By Dianna Booher Emotional instability can infect the workplace and lower productivity as surely as malfunctioning equipment. Often, the person causing the retention problem has moved from buddy to b...

By S. Chris Edmonds and Mark S. Babbitt Just hours after we watched his inauguration, President Joe Biden officiated at a virtual swearing-in of nearly 1,000 presidential appointees. During the cerem...

By Kevin Roth Candidate: "I'm checking in to see if there was any feedback from my interview last week." Hiring Manager: "We won't have any feedback until we get through the rest of the interviews...

By Jason Miller A recent national Covid office survey found that 63% of employees were ready to return to the office with the right incentives and safety precautions. By comparison, just over 25% wer...

By Kevin Roth In this job market, every company should have two different interview processes. One for the standard full-length process and a second for expedited situations in which the candidate ha...

By Celeste Sirin There’s an open secret at your company that few people, if anyone, will voice. Your employee value proposition is boring. Here’s what’s going on: Organizations spend copious amoun...