Hiring
Advice and best practices for employers looking to attract and retain top talent.
Forbes Names Top Temp Staffing Firms on 2026 Best List
While many recruiting agencies charge 15-35% of a hire's salary, firms like Frontline Source Group now offer a 5-Year Placement Warranty for direct hires.
Avoid These 5 Local Hiring Mistakes: Lessons From NeighbrHub on Youth Work Safety
Hiring local help for tasks like lawn care or babysitting is a community-building tradition. When that help involves young workers, however, homeowners can inadvertently make mistakes that compromise safety and create li…
Anthropic AI offers $1.3M salaries to lure top engineering talent
Two technical staff members at Anthropic, on H-1B visas, were recently offered base salaries of $1.
Russia Faces Growing Discontent Amidst Ukraine War Challenges
Ukraine's drone campaign appears to be turning the tide of the war, directly putting pressure on Putin and challenging Russia's perceived military dominance, according to The New Yorker .
UK Government and LinkedIn Partner on Jobseeker Career Resources
LinkedIn will now share timely, anonymized data on jobs, skills, hiring, and workforce movement from its 40 million UK accounts directly with Skills England, fundamentally reshaping how the government
Employers boost hiring, strong job prospects for 2026 grads
In a surprising turn for new graduates, 77% of the 2025 college class secured a job within three months of graduation, a significant jump from the previous year.
Malaysia faces persistent layoffs, government monitors trend
In the first 16 days of April 2026, 4,708 Malaysians lost their jobs.
JobKorea Rebrands as Worxphere, Launches AI Hiring Platform
In a move that could render traditional resumes obsolete, JobKorea announced Thursday in Seoul its rebranding as Worxphere, launching an AI career-agent platform designed to "dismantle" human-involved
How to Conduct Skills-Based Interviews for Equitable Hiring
While 87% of organizations claim to use skills-based interviewing, only 58% create competency-based rubrics, revealing a significant gap in true implementation, according to AIHR .
What is Skills-Based Hiring and Why Does it Matter for Talent Acquisition?
By 2025, 85% of US companies will be using skills-based hiring, a dramatic shift in how organizations evaluate potential employees, according to TestGorilla .
What are effective strategies for retaining top talent in 2026?
Even as average voluntary turnover in the U.
How to Ensure Ethical AI Integration in Hiring: Best Practices
Despite promises of fairness, AI applications in recruitment can actively discriminate against job applicants, perpetuating existing biases.
What is skills-based hiring and why are 70% of employers using it?
In a significant shift, 40% of companies have already removed degree requirements from their job listings, fundamentally changing how talent is valued, according to Eklavvya .
How to Build Employer Branding Strategies to Attract Top Talent
A strong employer brand can reduce the cost for each hire by as much as 50%, according to Guardian Jobs .
Skills-First Talent Strategies Reshape 2026 Job Market
By 2026, human capital management (HCM) will transform from mere HR software into a core workforce infrastructure, directly linking skills data and AI governance to business outcomes like delivery spe
How Companies Build and Leverage Talent Pools
Organizations are increasingly bypassing traditional recruitment agencies, directly sourcing top talent from pre-vetted pools.
What is AI in candidate screening and why does bias matter?
Workday, a prominent provider of human resources software, faces claims that its AI-powered system unfairly filtered out job applicants.
2026 Grads Face 5.6% Unemployment Amidst AI and Fierce Competition
Inexperienced candidates are now welcomed in just one in 50 openings, a stark decline from one in 15 just two years ago, according to Forbes.
What is the role of HR business partners in strategic workforce management?
Organizations with a strategic HR function are 1.
How to Design Effective New Hire Onboarding Programs That Last a Year
Many onboarding programs fail because they focus on information transfer rather than performance change, expecting coverage to equal capability, according to Echo360 .
How Skills-Based Hiring Addresses Talent Gaps
Despite 73% of companies using skills-based hiring in 2023, over 60% still rejected qualified candidates lacking a college degree, according to SHRM .
How to Implement Skills-Based Hiring for Talent Gaps in 2026
Simply dropping stated degree requirements seldom opens jobs to those who do not have a college degree.
What Are Behavioral Interviewing Techniques for Employers?
Traditional, resume-driven interviews prove less predictive of job success than structured behavioral approaches, often leading to significant financial and operational costs for companies.
What Is AI in Hiring, and Why Does It Risk Perpetuating Bias?
Homecare provider Cera launched its AI recruitment tool, Ami, in August, which now saves human recruiters an estimated two days a week.
What Are the Benefits of Skills-Based Hiring for Talent Acquisition?
In 2024, nearly half of all organizations (45%) stopped requiring a bachelor's degree for some jobs.
Skills-First Hiring Surges in Talent Acquisition
Nearly 70% of organizations now prioritize skills over traditional degree requirements in hiring, fundamentally reshaping how talent is identified and acquired.
How to Implement Skills-First Hiring Practices
Skills-based hiring is 2.
AI hiring tools boost efficiency but raise bias concerns for 2026 talent
At major companies, AI hiring tools are repeatedly screening out job applicants, with researchers specifically finding that Black and Asian candidates are among those disproportionately rejected by th
What Is a Talent Marketplace and Why Does It Matter for 2026 Careers?
During the 2020 pandemic, Unilever's talent marketplace enabled them to reallocate 4,000 employees.
What Are Recruitment Effectiveness Metrics Beyond Time to Hire?
To hire a single technical candidate, companies now conduct an average of 35-36 interviews, consuming 26 interviewer hours, according to Gem.