It’s another week of big and important things happening in hiring and recruiting. Every week, we hope to gather the most relevant and informative news articles into one place, making it easier for you to stay up-to-date with the RPO industry and to deliver value in your hiring strategies. Here are the top RPO industry and hiring strategy news articles for the week:
4 Ways to Culturally Engage Your Employees – Xenium HR - Company culture is critical to attracting and to retaining top talent. Don’t believe us? Check out these reviews from Glassdoor of a company culture that’s less than appealing. Use these four ways to engage your employees culturally, so that they build and become a part of a company culture that they can be proud of.
Statistics Tell a Tough Recruiting Story – Novotus – It’s been a reoccurring theme of “the widening gap between candidates and employers” over the past few months and statistics continue to show that this problem isn’t going away anytime soon. The baby boomers retiring over the next few years; the ones who are the technicians, skilled trade operators, and production operators. We need an additional 10 million skilled workers by 2020, and folks are preparing for these openings.
Big Trouble in the Talent Pipeline – China Gorman - You think recruiting is tough now? It’s only going to get tougher over the next five to 10 years, according to some startling data points shared in this article. Half can’t find New York or Ohio on a map? Twenty percent of freshman with a 4.0 high school GPA need remediation in math, English or both? I remember in my freshman year at a top 100 university, one of my floormates didn’t know that Mississippi was a state! She thought it was only a river! Granted, geography isn’t a skill needed in most jobs, but it does reflect how poorly our kids are prepared for the real world.
Automation: An Emerging Outsourcing Mega-Trend – Spend Matters – Are you offering automation of some shape or form as part of your RPO services? It seems that by automating processes and functions, organizations can see between 40 and 60 percent savings on those specific processes and functions. It’s also a little controversial because automation eliminates some jobs some of the time, while other times it makes people more productive because they don’t have to spend the time on those tasks. What do you think?
New App Will Scrub Offensive Stuff From Employee’s Facebook Pages – TLNT – This new app, called Facewash, seems like a double-edged sword for organizations. On the one hand, companies can use it to make their current employees look better on social media, which is a good thing. On the other hand, candidates can use this pre-emptively so that their profiles look squeaky clean for the interview. Not necessarily a bad thing, unless they are hiding something that could affect their job performance. Overall, the article suggests that you educate current employees and new hires on your social media policy, or start working on developing a social media policy.
3 Things Millionaire Matchmaker Teaches Us About Recruiting – The Hiring Site – This one isn’t exactly newsy, but that doesn’t mean we can’t learn anything from it. The RPO industry is a tough business as we work to meet the incredibly high expectations of our clients, while sometimes convincing them that their expectations may be too high or that they aren’t doing what’s necessary to bring in the talent they want. Much like matchmaking, RPO isn’t simply about finding somebody but about making a relationship work.
