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What Is Digital Planning? Just like paper planning, digital planning helps to keep you organized. Digital planners are very versatile these days. You can purchase a digital planner that has 3 months – 18 months, often you can purchase a planner that has 24 months. Digital planners help with productivity and are effective at keeping […]

Find Out More In Q4 Who? What? Where? & When? Learn the Who? What? Where? and When? about TalentSmiths Niche Recruitment & Staffing Agency during November’s Lunch & Learn Livestream every Thursday during your lunch hour. You can catch Lunch & Learn Live on your social media platform of choice; LinkedIn, Facebook or YouTube. Find […]

Reusable Face Masks That Give Back Texas-based company TalentSmiths typically focuses on coaching HR professionals and placing them in direct-hire or contract-to-hire compensation positions with top organizations but quickly decided to begin producing non-medical masks to help support COVID-19 relief efforts. TalentSmiths has launched the hashtag #TGB “#TalentSmithsGivesBack” to help bring attention to its donation […]

Employers need people with certain skills, but those skills are hard to find…or are they?  Talent Trends: #1: Upskilling remains a priority – skills are the new currency, more employers should be investing in training their current workforce in 2019  #2: Hiring for potential rather than experience – employers should loosen requirements on position descriptions.  #3: […]

As an employer, you want to make sure you’re reaching out to the right talent, as well as checking that your application process runs smoothly every step of the way. After all, more than half (56 percent) of the candidates who quit an online application did it because of the poor functionality of the site. […]

Rejecting finalist candidates is never a fun task, mostly because people, especially students aren’t desensitized to the murky, brandless, generic black box of candidate rejection like seasoned recruiters are. It’s a humbling experience for seasoned job seekers and it’s a painful experience to be the first bad experience for someone new to the field of […]

Michele Hester, Senior HR Services Manager for Berkshire Associates ( HR & technology firm) Presents at SHRM18 Annual Conference in Chicago. She will share tactics for developing fair pay practices within organizations. The attention surrounding pay equity shows no signs of letting up. OFCCP and EEOC are committed to enforcement efforts to ensure fairness in […]

As a Total Rewards Leader can you conduct a competitive pay analysis? Payroll can account for more than 40% of a company’s operating budget. That is significant! You can turn to your labor market data, or surveys from government and private sources for help with setting competitive pay rates. Valerie Bolden-Barrett suggests these six steps: […]