Building an annual talent planning strategy involves a lot of moving parts: If your hiring team does its part by executing on this vision, high-performing employees are hired, skills gaps are addressed, and important business goals are achieved. External factors, including tight labor markets and economic uncertainty, can prevent your hiring team from executing effectively […] The post How to Adjust Your Talent Planning Amid Disruption appeared first on Lever ..read more

Many talent acquisition, human resources, and recruiting professionals turn to HR experts to get ideas and insights that can help them improve their work and grow their careers. Today’s top human resources leaders have lots of knowledge and expertise. They know how to: You might be an HR specialist solely focused on analyzing employee experience […] The post 10 HR Experts and Influencers to Learn from in 2024 appeared first on Lever ..read more

“As employers face significant skills gaps, HR leaders must work hard to ensure they not only keep the workers they have but also find ways to add critical skill sets without hiring new people,” Employ SVP People & Talent Corey Berkey recently wrote for Forbes. Corey noted the best way for human resources (and people […] The post How Ongoing Talent Development Strengthens Your Workforce appeared first on Lever ..read more

The “ideal” talent management model many scaling orgs implement today includes a focus on: It’s this last item that is the foundation of every successful talent management strategy today: Technology that aids recruiters with their candidate sourcing, nurturing, analysis, and rediscovery and HR professionals with their employee engagement and evaluation of their human capital. Before […] The post How Talent Management Impacts Business Growth appeared first on Lever ..read more

The most effective employee engagement strategies are ones executed by HR and managers. That said, as with other organizational initiatives (e.g., ones tied to DEI and corporate social responsibility), high-level business leaders must be the drivers of your company’s efforts to realize a wholly engaged workforce. Ones that ultimately: And the road to increasing employee […] The post Employee Engagement Strategies to Retain Top Talent appeared first on Lever ..read more

A series of devastating tech layoffs kicked off 2023. The economic downturn will likely continue to take its toll, with cutbacks possibly spreading to other sectors. There are well-placed concerns about how these cuts derail diversity in the workforce, as many diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) committees have lost team members, employee resource group (ERG) […] The post How Leading Orgs Improve Diversity In the Workforce appeared first on Lever ..read more

Candidate relationship management (CRM) isn’t just about identifying, connecting with and staying top of mind with external candidates. It’s also about internal recruiting: Pinpointing current members of your workforce you and hiring managers think could be good fits for open roles and ensuring they know potential opportunities of interest exist. However, many organizations haven’t prioritized […] The post Advantages of Internal Recruiting for Your Business appeared first on Lever ..read more

In case it wasn’t clear to your business leaders that a structured internal hiring process is critical to your org’s long-term prospects, this eye-opening stat from our 2022 Talent Benchmarks Report can convince them: Lever customers needed an average of just three internal candidates to fill open roles, compared to 30 sourced external candidates and […] The post Internal Hiring: Increasingly Important for Employers appeared first on Lever ..read more

Upskilling and reskilling employees to provide workers with internal mobility paths may seem like a task solely for people managers. After all, they speak with and support their team members day in and day out and understand their desired career path and aspirations. The truth is reskilling your workforce and providing skills training to staff […] The post How Upskilling & Reskilling Boost Workforce Retention appeared first on Lever ..read more

It’s not enough to just know the latest hiring trends. You also need to know the ‘why’ behind them (i.e., how they came to be) to make informed adjustments to your talent strategy. For instance: You know The Great Resignation has led to talent shortages at companies worldwide. However, have you explored the precise factors that […] The post 5 Hiring Trends from Our Talent Benchmarks Report appeared first on Lever ..read more