Findly Talent Acquisition Blog

Once upon a time there were a bevy of qualified candidates — sometimes overly so — scrambling to find jobs and accepting what they could secure. Employers could almost sit back and wait for the cream of the crop to come to them seeking work...but as we all know, those days are over.  Employment has experienced consistent growth this year and over the past 3 months, job gains have averaged 116,000 per month. However, now that companies are expanding their teams, many report they’re finding it difficult to recruit.

According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unemployment rate is currently at pre-recession levels, highlighting in the fact that organizations are riding the seismic wave of forceful market change and looking to top talent to scale their business. While this is a telling sign that organizations and strategic leaders are seeing the value in their workforce, critical moving pieces in this larger puzzle remain hidden under the seams of this development. Even in this proving economic revival, the unemployment rate fails to tell the entire story.

The Department of Labor recently announced a new law that will dramatically change overtime protection for over 4 million new workers in the US.

The new regulations, under the Fair Labor Standards Act, will double the annual salary threshold that generally determines who qualifies for overtime pay when they work more than 40 hours a week.

Newly minted workers who are just starting their careers this summer may be in for a wakeup call as they navigate the choppy waters of job hunting and interviewing. Luckily they’re not the first to make the transition.

To help job hungers land that first position after graduation, we asked the Findly staff for the best advice they’d give themselves if they were starting all over again. Here are some of our best gems.

For some people, part-time work is a great opportunity to have flexibility while tending to other things, but statistics show a growing number of part-time workers actually want to work full-time — six million of them to be exact.

Integrating Social Media to Enhance Your Day-to-Day Recruiting

Social media permeates almost every part of human life. From the time we wake up in the morning, to well after our work days have ended, we spend countless hours engaging in social networking activities. The use of social media continues to expand through use of mobile devices, with practical uses for both business and personal responsibilities. According to most recent figures, “Approximately 2 billion internet users are using social networks,” and Facebook is the confirmed leader with some 1.59 billion users (Statista, April 2016).

A Quick Guide to Engaging Talent Each Step of the Way

Last week, members of the Findly team traveled to the heart of Sin City to attend the first annual 2016 ShopTalk Conference. Joining over 3,000 excitable attendees, we grabbed our welcome packs, jazzed ourselves up on caffeine and took our seats for what would be 3 interactive days of top content, thought-leadership and monumental insights from a variety of C-Suite executives, entrepreneurs and leaders from all over the world.

Revolutionizing Your Candidate Experience: Leverage Technology to Its Best

The ultimate goal of a recruitment marketing strategy is to use the best possible methods to efficiently and effectively recruit the most suitable candidates. Fortunately, new technology has paved the way for recruitment professionals to source, select, and secure talent in a more candidate-friendly way. The contrast between old methods of recruiting vs. new technology enabled recruitment is clearly dividing traditional recruiters from modern ones. Technology has disrupted the industry as a whole, and is creating a new approach--which is becoming the new norm in recruitment practices.  

Millions of jobs are waiting to be filled but employers still say they can’t find qualified workers.

“America has near record 5.8 million job openings” a CNN Money headline read last week following the release of July Labor Department data. The number of job openings has increased for five months straight, and yet, according to the report, "business owners can't find the skilled workers qualified to fill the jobs they have.”