At Leoforce, we love TED Talks. We love learning about new concepts and ideas from some of the best and brightest people out there. On this wonderful Tuesday morning, we want to share an “oldie but goodie” TED talk from Andrew McAfee, co-director of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy.
As a recruiter, you spend your career trying to attract candidates to a company. As an HR professional, you work to retain the best employees in your company. What if you knew what prompted people to take new jobs and leave their current jobs behind? Luckily for you, LinkedIn is doing its best to answer these questions.
As a recruiter, your top concern is to fill positions with quality candidates—and to do it FAST. However, this has become an increasingly difficult feat to accomplish due to a widening skills gap and the heightened need for specialized employees.
It’s hard to believe, but 2015 is quickly coming to a close. I imagine you are all busy making plans for the coming year, as we are here at Leoforce—luckily, LinkedIn released their annual global recruiting trends report just in time to help us all solidify our plans. To generate the report, LinkedIn surveyed 3,894 talent acquisition decision makers across the globe, 55 percent of who manage small or mid-sized businesses (SMBs).
Less than one third of U.S. workers are engaged in their job at any given time of the year, but it is significantly harder to keep employees involved and motivated from Thanksgiving until the New Year. Companies across the country struggle to maintain productivity at the end of each year as many employees take the same days off or work remotely.
Madhu Modugu is the founder and CEO of Leoforce, LLC, and he is the brains behind the patent-pending technology that powers all of our recruiting solutions. Before founding Leoforce, he cofounded Spectraforce, a prosperous and still-growing staffing firm also located in Raleigh, NC.
AI has irrevocably changed the world as we know it. It’s time we pay attention to our future and learn the effects it can have on our businesses and day-to-day lives. If automation could free up a recruiter’s daily pains and create efficient processes for an entire team, a new kind of recruiter.
When it comes to robotics, automation and technology, humans tend to have very mixed emotions. “On one hand there’s anxiety about robots,” said Kate Darling, an expert in robot ethics at the MIT Media Lab.
A candidate-centric hiring process is essential to the success of recruiters & companies across the globe. Your reputation & continued growth depend on it.
Here are five trends that we’re willing to bet will sweep workplaces across the United States in 2016.
The Arya recruitment automation platform saves recruiters up to 60 percent of their time each day so they have more time to focus on candidates—or on their holiday plans! Arya customers across the country are looking forward to spending quality time with their loved ones over a nice Thanksgiving meal.
So what is the current state of the recruiting industry? Here’s what industry experts and business leaders are saying.