Job satisfaction... A subject which companies should seriously consider if they don’t want to lose their best people. According to a survey conducted by Right Management, nine workers out of ten are considering changing their job in the next year.
60% of senior executives currently on the job are between 50 and 59 years old. It is essential to be reconciled with the fact that while the time of their promised retirement is soon to arrive, by the admission of these soon-to-retire fifty-year-olds, the next generation is not ready to take over.
Although company Christmas parties are extremely popular with employers and are expected to promote team spirit, a survey by OfficeTeam has revealed that only 55% of employees appreciate them.
With a background of labour shortage in Canada, the Global Workmonitoring anylisis by Randstad, published last month, gives an inside view of recruitment around the world. At the country level, the study shows that employers encounter serious problems in recruiting people with profiles that meet their needs.
LinkedIn has just published its Talent Brand Index, a graphic of companies that are the most sought for by candidates worldwide. Spotlight.
How to recruit, hold on to workforces and motivate employees in companies in the natural resources sector? That’s the question raised by a recent study undertaken by the Conference Board of Canada: Compensation Challenges for Natural Resource Companies.
According to Statistics Canada, the operating profits of Canadian companies amounted to $71.9 billion dollars in the second quarter of 2012. This is a decline of 4.9% compared to the preceding quarter while the last two quarters of 2011 were up.
Optimism is in order among Canadian workers, according to a recent Ipsos Reid survey. According to the Institute, six Canadians out of ten think they would easily find a job with the same pay in their field if they lost their job tomorrow.
Canada created 7300 new jobs in June while the unemployment rate fell by one tenth of a percentage point to 7.2%, according to Statistics Canada. Nothing comparable with March and April during which 140,000 new jobs appeared
Despite the economic environment, the level to which employees are engaged has somewhat increased worldwide during the year, according to a report from Aon Hewitt. A positive sign considering that we know that engaging employees influences business performance.
The pros and cons of cloud computing In the last few months, there has been a real war of clouds. All the big players are going there with their solution to let us store our data online.
Recruitment is evolving with the requirements of employers, candidates, the state of the labour market and the socioeconomic environment in general. This article shows how to improve recruitment by properly applying the strategies and techniques of sales to recruitment.