Building the Ultimate Remote Culture, in Thailand. At Toptal, we’re building a software product that aims to revolutionize team creation, contracting, and human resources. Our team is completely distributed: we have no office, and we work from all around the globe. And when I say “all around the globe”, I mean all around the globe: our internal staff consists of nearly 50 full-time individuals from Brazil, USA, Russia, Argentina, Czech Republic, Ukraine, Hungary, and more.
This includes engineers, designers, recruiters, sales, and executives. We all work from home, and we’re good at it: we’ve had countless Skype sessions, code reviews, feature iterations—all components in building a great product. We work hard, and we’ve been at it with as much fervor and energy as ever. Earlier this year, we decided it was time to bring everyone together in the same location. They’re exceptional. The Idea At the time, our dev team consisted of about a dozen people, including QA, design and engineering. The Preparation The Arrival It was amazing. The Problems. Older workers struggle for cred in new economy. The unemployment rate for Americans age 55 and older is 4.4 percent -- lower by more than 1.5 percent than the population as a whole. By contrast, the unemployment rate for 16- to 19-year-olds is 21 percent. But older workers are also at greater risk of suffering long-term unemployment than any other age group.
More than half of older workers have been unemployed for six months or longer, and many of them have been actively looking for more than one year. When older workers leave the job market for a period of time -- for instance, after a layoff, or to care for a spouse or elderly parent -- they are more likely to experience a significant decline in pay and job quality (working part-time or on contract) than other age cohorts. And older workers often feel their age status acutely in the workforce. L.D. Kirshenbaum graduated from Reed College, she’d worked as a journalist and launched a mobile news app.
You're Looking in the Wrong Place for Job Candidates. Job seekers don't really flip through the classifieds much anymore. Instead they turn to the Internet and social networks. Unsurprisingly, 92 percent of businesses now use social media as a recruitment tool. Yet that doesn't mean that you're looking for candidates in the right places. New research from iCIMS, a Web-based employment software company, makes clear that recruiters could be getting more eyes on their job postings. "It was very surprising was that job candidates were not engaging as much on Twitter as recruiters are," Susan Vitale, CMO of iCIMS, said. Indeed, the study found that 51 percent of all jobs posted on social media are posted to Twitter--and yet, a mere one percent of candidates expect to find a job on Twitter.
"I view LinkedIn as more of a job board than strictly as a social media platform," Vitale says. The study analyzed more than 60,000 jobs posted on social media. Vitale stressed that each platform has a different strength. Big Challenges for Recruiting Leaders — The Top 10 Upcoming Recruiting Problems. Those who follow my articles know that I frequently write on the positive trends and the big ideas that recruiting leaders need to be aware of. However, I have not often written about the biggest strategic challenges or problems that corporate recruiting leaders face. Of course no one wants to dwell on the negative. But since I am predicting that during the next few years we will all encounter a completely transformed world of recruiting, it only makes sense to at least be aware of our largest current and upcoming challenges. If you don’t act proactively to mitigate these major challenges, they unfortunately may grow out of control, causing exponential damage to your firm.
The Top 10 Highest-impact Strategic Recruiting Challenges In this list, the highest impact problems and challenges appear first. Some Additional Challenges to Keep in Mind Final Thoughts Some of the Related Conference Sessions at the ERE Recruiting Conference in San Diego: Workday Acquires Identified: A Potential Disruptive Move In Recruiting (And More...Updated) POV_Accounting_Finance_Professionals. @StacyZapar's Blog: The Evolution of Recruiting, from the Dinosaur Days to the New Social Era. Recruiting Innovation » Make HR Happen. If you Google the words “recruiting innovation” this morning you will probably find a dozen or more blog posts about the Recruiting Innovation Summit yesterday conducted by ERE.net and hosted by LinkedIn at their headquarters in Mountain View, CA. When I began blogging again, I promised that I would avoid becoming a “me too” blogger and only publish stuff that came out of my own head, but there is one condition which I failed to mention: When there is a “light bulb” moment that absolutely rocks me I am not responsible for the words that come out of the keyboard!
It is impossible for me to give a total recap of the conference and also unnecessary because ERE.net will eventually post the video of the entire event on their website. I felt a need to highlight some of the most innovative points from my perspective and to encourage you to watch the presentations later if you missed it live.
Collaborative Chaos.