Wondering how to get work right out of college if you're not one of the lucky few to land a permanent full-time gig?
This month, our Chicago Recruiter Meggie Thomas walks you through starting out with contract jobs.
Hoping to get a big raise at your year-end review? Want to negotiate a bigger package at your new job? "Salary negotiations can be anxiety-filled on both sides but they shouldn't be," Thomas Neubauer, a managing partner with The Gap Partnership (a firm providing negotiation training), told Entrepreneur Magazine. So turn that frown upside down and learn how to negotiate with the best of them.
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Every culture has its own lingo. In addition to native language, there are buzzwords and lexicons that involve a kind of vernacular shorthand. Industries are ripe with acronyms, slang is rampant across cultures, and popular activities have their own vocabularies.
In the human resource staffing industry, we have our own set of common terms that we use. Sometimes, we forget that our customers might not know that "agile" is not the same as "Agile" or that "TTP" holds little meaning for someone who hasn’t worked in a contract role before.
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According to Glassdoor, 89% of applicants look for employment on their phone.
It’s a sign of the times — mobile recruiting is one of the best ways to reach applicants in any field. How candidates view your job posting and the ease with which they can apply are important factors to consider when you’re trying to reach an audience via a mobile device. While this phenomenon isn’t new, many HR departments still have an unwieldy application process that isn’t mobile friendly. How can human resource departments adapt their application processes to this “new” venue?
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