How Important Is Building Up Your LinkedIn Network?

By The Intersect Group

Answer: Extremely! Why? Because not only can a robust professional network on LinkedIn help you find your next job, it can help you find the best next job. LinkedIn is more than a networking platform: it’s where you can showcase your expertise in such a way that it helps you stand out from other candidates.  …

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10 Things You Can do to Attract Scarce Talent: #2 – Focus on Social Responsibility

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How can you attract top talent to your company? In addition to focusing on and showcasing your DEI efforts in your recruitment marketing, take a look at your social responsibility: are you known for your community involvement? Why you should have a robust corporate social responsibility (CSR) reputation  CSR is the idea turned into action …

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The Uptick in Upskilling: Positioning Yourself for a Promotion

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Who gets promotions? Those who go above and beyond what their boss asks of them and what their job description says. People who make a point of learning new skills also tend to get the nod to step up a rung or two on the career ladder In fact, more and more promotions are being …

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10 Things You Can do to Attract Scarce Talent: #1 – Focus on DEI

By The Intersect Group

We believe skilled talent such as IT and accounting/finance professionals will be difficult to find, let alone hire, for the coming months, possibly even well into next year. We’re not alone in this: The IT talent shortage isn’t just because of the current situation the country is in due to the pandemic: a software developer …

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The 100% In-person Interview Process is Gone Forever. Now What?

By The Intersect Group

How Will This Change How You’ll Assess Candidates About 79 percent of recruiters are now conducting job interviews by video as the economy recovers from the pandemic. We predict even more will hold candidate interviews remotely as time moves on (although that increase may come  more in screening and first interviews, with some employers moving …

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Why You Might Want to Apply for Jobs for Which You Don’t Meet 100% of the Requirements

By The Intersect Group

You see a job posting. It’s PERFECT. It’s possibly even your dream job. Even if it’s not, merely reading the description makes you salivate: It’s with a great company It looks like it pays well. It’s doing something you do extremely well. But then, it asks for 10 years’ experience, and you have just 7. …

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Moving Workforce Forward Series: Adapting to Employees’ Flexibility Demands

By The Intersect Group

Adapting to Employees’ Flexibility Demands As the U.S. economy continues to slowly make its way to a fully post-COVID status, it’s been almost impossible not to notice that employees have demands and they’re not leery of vocalizing them. A recent article called this state of affairs one in which workers are gaining leverage over employers …

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Recruitment Trends You Should Know About as a Job Candidate

By The Intersect Group

  Recruiting has changed a ton in the last 10 years, even in the last five. Artificial intelligence and automation, for example, are used frequently when recruiters interact with candidates, from the moment a candidate applies to the day they are hired (or not). Recruiters use automation even before they ever have contact with candidates. …

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