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Data from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) shows workplace discrimination is on the decline. Although, it unfortunately does still happen. If you feel like you have been discriminated against at work or you just want to know the warning signs so you don’t fall victim, there are a number of key things to look for.… Read More »

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the business landscape forever. Alongside the myriad other challenges companies are facing, HR representatives have a uniquely difficult task to tackle: terminating employees remotely. https://www.recruiter.com/i/6-things-you-need-to-be-aware-of-when-terminating-an-employee-remotely/… Read More »

In an normal hiring process, an in-person interview is the perfect chance to invite candidates into your office, shake hands, tour the space, and envision the day-to-day of the open position. Now, however, the challenge is to showcase your awesome company and team in a fully virtual hiring process. https://www.recruiter.com/i/how-to-run-a-successful-virtual-interview-process/… Read More »

Keeping people engaged, focused, and able to perform has become even more urgent in these challenging times of the pandemic and economic and social unrest. Organizations can look at this period as an opportunity to make long-overdue workplace changes. Remote work, for example, has succeeded in ways many organizations never imagined. Team leaders can reach out… Read More »

As a leader, you’ve spent years — or decades — learning and honing the skills and characteristics that make your leadership effective. When circumstances change — as they very much have in the age of COVID — you may quite naturally reach for the very same set of skills you’ve used all along. This might not be the… Read More »

We discussed how employers are always looking for ways to improve employee engagement levels. There are a lot of topics employers can focus on to do exactly that. We outlined a few of them, like showing trust, being flexible, investing in what matters, and showing employees you care. In this article, we’ll continue to outline… Read More »

Engaged employees are more likely to be productive and less likely to leave their organization. They’re more likely to be passionate about the work, great with customers, great at bringing in new employees, and more. Disengaged employees, on the other hand, are more likely to work just enough to fulfill expectations and could actively bring… Read More »

Eggs and rejections should be done over-easy. Turning down applicants with class pays off in your long-term recruiting efforts and reputation as a great place to work. Your boilerplate “thanks, but no thanks” emails and letters to job applicants may have worked well in seasons of high employment. But in the age of COVID-19 layoffs… Read More »

Research we conducted at Andela shows that 66 percent of engineering leaders plan to allow remote work to continue, even once the pandemic has ended. Remote work in itself is just the first stage in a seismic shift from local to global engineering. If teams are fully remote, then CTOs can recruit without the restraints of… Read More »

Why do job descriptions matter so much? Just like you can tell a good candidate from an unprepared one by reading the first couple of lines of their cover letter, candidates can tell good companies from those that seem straight out of a nightmare just by reading a job description. https://www.recruiter.com/i/are-your-job-descriptions-good-enough/… Read More »