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What Are the Five Characteristics of a Good Employee for Creative Jobs?
5 Attributes and 31 Watchwords for Future-Proofed Hiring of Creatives The contribution that creative jobs make to the United States economy is huge. In 2020, arts and culture added almost $900 billion dollars to the nation’s GDP. The creative sector encompasses more than 3% of all jobs in the United States, paying around $450 billion…
Read MoreEmployee Onboarding Tips for Remote Employees
Strategies for Improving Productivity, Engagement, and Retention from Day One Getting employee onboarding right is challenging enough when the employee is working in the office, surrounded by their new colleagues and with their new manager readily available. In a remote working environment, this challenge is even more acute. Did you know that a new hire…
Read MoreRemote Leadership – Seven Tips to Build and Maintain a Mentally Fit Remote Team
One of the challenges of remote leadership is how to build and maintain a mentally fit team. This is highlighted in a survey by the American Psychiatric Association. It found that while more than half of respondents say their employer is now more accommodating to mental health needs, only one in five has ‘offered additional…
Read MoreTop Hiring Challenges and How to Overcome Them
Removing Roadblocks to Hire Your Ideal Candidates In a candidate-driven market, there are many hiring challenges that companies face ─ especially when hiring for more senior or project-critical roles. Your competitiveness relies on having the best people working for you – and to do this you must overcome the challenges that exist when recruiting in…
Read MoreVirtual Leadership: How to Manage and Motivate a Remote Team
Tips to Help Build and Develop a High-Performing Virtual Team Being an effective manager is demanding, but virtual leadership comes with a whole different set of challenges. Working remotely is no longer uncharted territory: Research from Owl Labs has found that around 62% of workers between ages 22 and 65 work remotely at least occasionally.…
Read MoreCreative Ways to Retain Employees in a Candidate-Driven Market
Top Talent Want More Than a Paycheck Is the Great Resignation damaging your organization? Are you losing your best people faster than you can hire the skills and experience to drive your business to its goals? Thanks to the pandemic and the Great Resignation, many organizations are struggling with how to keep top talent. The…
Read MoreWhy It Is Crucial to Manage Fear of Uncertainty at Work
How to Deal with Uncertainty and Thrive in Your Professional and Personal Life Fear of uncertainty can stifle our careers, especially in creative jobs. And there has rarely, if ever, been more uncertainty at work than there is today. Our economy is inundated with threats. The Ukrainian conflict. Rising interest rates. Out-of-control inflation. Supply chain…
Read MoreFor the Health of Your HR Department, Here’s What to Do When Hiring for Technical Jobs
Benefits of Partnering With a Specialist Staffing Agency When hiring for technical jobs, it’s easy for HR departments to become overwhelmed. The longer it takes to fill an open position, the more strain there is between HR and the hiring manager, too. Then, as HR desperately try to source suitable candidates, all that occurs is…
Read MoreWhat Has the Pandemic Taught Us About Staffing in Technology and Creative Jobs?
7 Lessons to Help Businesses Hire More Effectively in the ‘New Normal’ As the pandemic crisis recedes, many businesses are struggling to hire and retain talented employees for technical jobs and creative roles. At least in part, this is because the disparities between what is important to employees and what employers offer have had the…
Read MoreWhy You Must Move Faster to Hire Talent into Creative Jobs
Is Your Hiring Process Sending Talent to Your Competitors? Are you finding it challenging to hire for your creative jobs? Do you miss out on the best candidates? It’s tougher to hire the talent you need today. The skills shortage is the highest it has been for a decade, with 69% of employers struggling to…
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