What is your hiring strategy? Carolina Milanes, principal analyst at Creative Strategies and founder of the Heart of Tech wrote a great commentary this week for Fast Company in response to the resurgence in remote work. Working from Home is great for diversity. Let’s keep it going sheds light on the work from home environment. According [...]
Company demand for this position has grown 50% Burning Glass reports that demand for Onboarding Specialists is on the rise. This comes as no surprise. The war for new and emerging talent is a bloody battle leaving many workforce development professionals defeated. According to Harvard Business Review, almost 33% of new hires start searching for a [...]
The way we work and interact with each other is about to change forever. Last spring, Learning House and Future Workplace surveyed 600 human resource leaders about the nationwide skills gap crisis, the state of hiring processes, and the difficulties of identifying qualified candidates. Today, as job openings in critical IT support roles continue to rise [...]
Are you overlooking the skilled talent in your workforce? If the answer is yes, you are not alone. Only 28% of talent acquisition leaders today consider internal candidates when looking to fill vacancies. Laura Randell, CEO of global recruitment strategy and HR technology consulting company PeopleMatters, explains, “In highly evolved organizations where succession planning and performance [...]
Automotive (or IT) Interview Tips that Will Make You Shine You’ve done it! You’ve applied for the job and now you’ve got the interview scheduled. Congratulations! And, chances are, you’re probably both excited and nervous. If you are, it’s completely normal. In fact, if you weren’t a bit of both, we’d say there’s probably something wrong! [...]
Making a 2020 Resolution Towards Change - Happy 2020 from Franklin Apprenticeships! As we embark on yet another year into the 4th Industrial Revolution, we think it is time for some New Year resolutions - resolutions that can continue to bring change to how we view education and opportunity for America’s workforce. With that, Franklin Apprenticeships [...]
The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) recently published a practical guide to help tech companies source talent and fill jobs. Released in November 2019, Why Tech Companies Should Offer Apprenticeships explains the value of apprenticeship in the tech sector and offers insight into navigating and executing apprenticeship as a talent pipeline strategy. The white paper is further [...]
As the U.S. faces a skilled labor crisis, the ability to find, train, and retain your company’s ideal workforce may seem too good to be true. It’s not, thanks to modern apprenticeship programs. What exactly do such programs offer? Nothing short of the perfect SOLUTION to your workforce needs. Structure. Opportunity. Loyalty. Unique. Training. Investment. Outlook. [...]
The U.S. is facing a skilled labor crisis. Not only are there more job openings than people seeking employment, 75% of those having trouble finding and recruiting competitive candidates cite a lack of skills as a leading issue. But what if, instead of sifting through a pile of applications to find the one person who fits [...]
In today’s world of a largely male-dominated tech industry, it’s remarkable to think that women played prominent— even critical — roles in the early days of computing. Today, only 20 percent of tech jobs are held by women. In a sector experiencing a faster-than-average growth rate, it’s clear that something is wrong. It’s past time [...]
