With competition for skilled workers at a high and an increased focus on diversity, companies have started to recruit in often overlooked talent pools, including veterans, women returning to the workplace, older workers, and individuals without college degrees. And companies are beginning to embrace one of the largest untapped talent markets of all — people with...
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Six out of 10 older workers have experienced or witnessed age discrimination at work, says a 2018 report by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Ageism can impact professionals long before they start to approach retirement. In a recent survey of startup founders, 26.7% said they believe that age discrimination in tech starts when workers are...
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Today is International Women’s Day, the perfect day to commit to hiring more women and building a gender-balanced workforce. Of course, every other day would be perfect too. This change can start with you, recruiters. You shape the candidate pipeline and control who the hiring manager sees. So our all-important tip is this . . . open more profiles of women when...
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Women and men find jobs differently. And as more and more companies want to build gender-balanced teams and hire and promote more...
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In Louise Penny’s best-selling Inspector Gamache detective novels, one character has a particularly unusual backstory. Thérèse Brunel,...
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Meet Purl. She’s the star of the first video in Pixar’s SparkShorts series. She’s also a vivacious ball of pink yarn who is desperate...
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