By Alexander Young With over 20 percent of staff turnover occurring in the first 45 days of employment, having a strong onboarding process is vital for new-hire retention and employee productivity. Effective onboarding improves these metrics by over 82 percent and 70 percent respectively, according to research by Glassdoor. So how can startups and…
How to Create a Video-Based Employee Onboarding Program to Maximize New-Hire Productivity
Job Openings Fall From Record High But Stay Elevated as Business Hiring Woes Persist
Job openings in the United States have eased from their recent record high, but remain historically elevated, and the quits rate has risen to an all-time high as the labor market disconnect persists where millions are unemployed while businesses struggle to find workers to fill vacant positions. The Labor Department’s Job Openings and Labor Turnover…
Job Openings Keep Rising, On Pace to Set New Record: Indeed Hiring Lab
Real-time job openings data from Indeed Hiring Lab show the number of vacancies in the United States continuing to climb and on pace to hit a new record high when the government publishes official statistics next month. There were an estimated 11.6 million job openings in the United States as of Sept. 24, according to…
Job Openings Keep Rising, on Pace to Set Record: Indeed Hiring Lab
Real-time job openings data from Indeed Hiring Lab show the number of vacancies in the United States continuing to climb and on pace to hit a record high when the government publishes official statistics next month. There were an estimated 11.6 million job openings in the United States as of Sept. 24, according to an…
Fast Hiring: UPS to Hire 100,000, Many in 30 Minutes or Less
NEW YORK—Besides packages, UPS is promising to deliver something else fast: job offers. The package delivery company said Thursday that it plans to hire more than 100,000 people for the busy holiday shipping season, many of whom will get job offers within 30 minutes of applying. UPS needs to snap up workers as fast as…
Job Openings Surge to Record High While Hiring Stays Flat
Job openings in the United States surged to a record high of more than 10 million on the last day of July, while hiring lagged behind that figure by over 4 million, painting a picture of an economic recovery held back by businesses struggling to fill vacant positions. The Labor Department’s Job Openings and Labor…
NTD Business Full Broadcast (Sept. 3)
Big miss in the August jobs report. Employers only added 235-thousand new jobs last month. We get an expert’s take on it. Amazon reportedly asking delivery partners to stop screening applicants for marijuana. It says it could boost the number of applicants amid the driver shortage. But what are the risks? And it appears Apple…
Amazon Says It’s Looking to Hire 55,000 People
NEW YORK—Amazon is going on another hiring spree. The company said Wednesday that it plans to hire 55,000 people around the world, with about 40,000 of those roles in the United States. Amazon said all the open roles are for tech jobs and corporate positions. Separately, the company has been hiring thousands of warehouse workers…
Hiring Crunch Drags Down Small Business Revenues
Even as large corporations like Target are posting forecast-beating earnings and reporting little difficulty attracting talent, smaller businesses say they’re struggling to hire workers, hurting their bottom line. A new survey by Salesforce (pdf) shows that 53.3 percent of small and medium-sized businesses said staffing issues have been a drag on revenues. For those businesses…
How to Hire Superstars
By Alexander Young People are the most important part of any business. For fast-growth early-stage companies, it is vital that a founder/CEO fulfilling multiple roles hires the correct people to take the company to the next stage of growth. Research into fast-growing Series A+ companies suggests that high-growth companies hire four to five employees on average a quarter. For founders…
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