Sharon Armstrong, longtime friend and trusted advisor to our team, recently shared insights from her work at the Trainers and Consultants Referral Network. Although many of her clients were not back in the office at full capacity, she reported record numbers of requests for trainers, consultants, coaches, and speakers. Her takeaway? Smart organizations are leveraging training, consulting, and coaching to improve their internal practices and address the challenges many face today ..read more

Many candidates ask us about the market for a particular field or functional area as they begin their job searches. Our answer is simple: don’t worry about the market—you only need one job, and what makes a job right for you isn't likely the same as anyone else. Focus instead on determining the types of roles that will enable you to do your best work and frame your search strategy around that. Here’s where to start ..read more

The new year is here—this is the time to elevate your approach to hiring. If you want to attract top-performing candidates now and into the future, transparency and responsiveness should be central to your recruiting process ..read more

At Staffing Advisors, we do a lot of research to help clients and candidates make sense of shifts in hiring and the job market. And in writing about topics from return-to-office and hybrid work to pay transparency and salary expectations, our goal is to help you navigate the seemingly endless maze of changes in what people expect from their work relationships. Through all our research, one article stopped us in our tracks—it’s the best piece we read this year. We’d like to share highlights of it with you ..read more

A proven concept in behavioral economics1, choice architecture is about changing the environment in which decisions are made—reducing the potential for bias and error—to arrive at choices that are better aligned with your goals. As a hiring manager, you may or may not be able to choose who will interview your prospective new hire. But there are steps you can take to ensure that regardless of who is involved in the process, you’ll get the input you need to fairly evaluate each candidate while maintaining positive relationships with your colleagues and leadership team ..read more

Research is an important part of the job search process. But it can often take undue time and fail to yield the kind of information that will help you choose the right company and position. You need to know what to look for, where to find it, and most importantly, how to evaluate what you find. This guide will help you focus on what matters most, prioritize your time, and make an employment decision you can be satisfied with long term ..read more

MacKenzie Scott announced on Monday that with the help of her team, she gave close to two billion dollars to “343 organizations supporting the voices and opportunities of people from underserved communities.” Unrestricted or general operating support giving can be transformative in the immediate, unlocking the ability to allocate funds wherever they are needed most. But this kind of giving can also have less obvious effects on staffing, creating sustained growth into the future. With Giving Tuesday 2022 fast approaching—a source of unrestricted fundraising for nonprofits nationwide—this is a ..read more

Workers changing jobs to maximize their paycheck is nothing new. But this year, a few twists present real challenges for employers. There are twice as many jobs as people looking, inflation accelerated faster than salary budgets, and more organizations are posting salaries publicly than ever before. New hires are expecting, and often getting, higher pay than current employees; suddenly, maintaining your salary budget has become incredibly complex. Let's dive into some factors driving this trend and what you can do to remain competitive while hiring ..read more

At Staffing Advisors, we are big fans of behavioral economics—using economics and psychology to understand why people behave the way they do in the real world. Our Evidence-Based Interviewing practices include many proven principles from this field of study. You can imagine our delight when we heard award-winning behavioral economist Steve Levitt report that his team used similar practices when hiring for his center, Radical Innovation for Social Change (RISC), at the University of Chicago. Their results beg us to consider how hiring will evolve as more organizations embrace an evidence-based ..read more

There is a chill in the air, fall colors are bursting, and looming deadlines are cut even shorter by upcoming holiday breaks and travel; autumn is here. As many organizations push to meet end-of-year goals—including hiring for a January new hire start—we frequently hear questions about recruiting through the holidays. The good news is that 2022 still has seven valuable recruiting weeks left. Here’s how to make the most of them ..read more