Mar 28, 2023 Boomerang employees now account for >25% of hires By Jim Sykes For this article I wanted to share some fascinating new data on the importance of Boomerang hires, employees that have left an...
Mar 09, 2023 Is a strong employment brand the solution to high attrition rates? By George Hoffmaster In the United States, in the five-year period of 2016 through 2020, the total labor force turnover steadily increased each year to 57%. ...
Feb 20, 2023 Narrowing the tech skills gap with Recruit Train Deploy By Matthew Chase Over the last decade in the tech market, we have all witnessed these accentuating themes; a widening global tech skills gap, rapidly...
Dec 15, 2022 Unlocking the potential of neurodiverse talent in your workforce By Tracy Soraghan One in seven of us is neurodiverse. That is roughly 14% of us who have a different way of thinking compared to the 'typical' brain....
Dec 08, 2022 Broadening access to skills to compete in the war for talent By Anna Crowe An interesting article in Personnel Today released this week about the War for Talent which highlights some of the specific challenges...
Nov 03, 2022 Despite the challenging jobs market, internal hiring reduces by 4% over prior year to just 27% By Jim Sykes This is a further article expanding upon the insight that I presented at the LEAP TA Life Sciences conference in Boston a few weeks ago...
Oct 07, 2022 Jobs Economy Slows, But Still Grows, Creating A Series Of Challenges By John Markey The economy showed a resilience of adding jobs overall in August but is also experiencing a shift in which jobs are being added, versus...
Sep 28, 2022 By 2030 a third of all US Life Sciences roles could be vacant By Jim Sykes In preparation for the LEAP TA Life Sciences conference next week in Boston, we have been conducting some analysis on the scarce talent...
Sep 15, 2022 Time to rethink Quality of Hire By Jim Sykes I am excited to be presenting at LEAP TA Life Sciences in a few weeks in Boston where I’ll be speaking on the topic of “How to Measure TA...
Aug 10, 2022 Are we about to see a profound shift in HR practices? By Jim Sykes Despite all the talk about the potential of entering a recession, all of us who work in Talent Acquisition know that the jobs market...
Jun 29, 2022 Is Amazon running out of people to hire? By Jim Sykes This is a fascinating article from Josh Bersin citing a leaked memo from Amazon that suggests that the company may soon start to run out...
May 31, 2022 More thoughts on talent and potential By Jim Sykes I wrote recently about talent and potential - to my mind the most pressing and strategic imperative for leaders today. Employee turnover...
May 23, 2022 Digitization key to solving hiring challenges in Pharma and Life Sciences By Jim Sykes I've written extensively about the ongoing challenges in hiring for scare talent within the pharmaceutical and life sciences sector. But...
May 18, 2022 The need to retain and accelerate high-potential employee talent By Carole Wild With average organisations seeing 19% of their high-potential employees (HIPO) leave in the past year, the need to engage effectively...
May 18, 2022 Is a counteroffer counterproductive? By Jim Sykes With 1 in 9 jobs vacant, open vacancies outstripping unemployment and employee turnover at exceptional levels, many managers and HR teams...
May 16, 2022 We need a new approach to internal hiring By Jim Sykes Employee turnover continues to run at exceptional levels and the job market is as hot as I have ever known it. We will all be feeling...