Commitment of North American employees to their company has reached its lowest level since 2008, according to a study conducted by Aon Hewitt. 2,500 companies representing over 3.8 million employees were studied around the world to highlight the leading role employers have in involving their employees for the smooth running of their business.
With the background of an improving labour market, half of companies have had a higher employee turnover than last year. Three quarters of them also expect to see even more departures. This was revealed by a survey conducted by OI Partners-Feldman Daxon Partners among 153 North American companies.
Volumes of relocations increased in 2012, incentive measures to convince employees to relocate... The trend towards company relocation is being confirmed around the world, according to a survey conducted by Atlas Van Lines, moving specialist.
Hiring the wrong person can have serious consequences, particularly in terms of cost. In the top ten world economies, more than half of companies have made the wrong hiring choice, according to CareerBuilder.
Tomorrow, recruiters could be replaced by robots. “Science” is being put at the service of recruitment and it seems that some well-chosen algorithms and mathematical formulae could supplant the work of humans. Nothing new, you will say, we’ve already seen tech breakthroughs a few times trying to intervene in evaluation of candidates: online personality tests, ultra-sophisticated CRMs, "ATS", in short, the market for automating recruitment arouses great interest and investments in research and development. Today we’ll speak about predictive technologies in the service of recruitment.
Over the last twenty years, the proportion of women in managerial or executive positions has not really changed in Canada. Still confronted with attitudes, preferences and prejudices, Canadian women remain outside career advancement opportunities. This is what a survey conducted by the Conference Board of Canada found, conducted among 876 women and men across the country.
Hydrogen, an international recruitment firm, interviewed 2,146 people in 90 countries about their motivations to go abroad to work. Result: career opportunities, attractiveness for a new experience and the financial potential justifies workers' movements around the world. Overview of the major trends of the study.
52% of Canadian business leaders say it’s no longer worthwhile financing internal expertise for specialized niches. The trend seems rather to use external resources.
7 executives out of 10 ready to negotiate starting salary Half of Canadian workers have played hooky
Wide ranging plan for disabilities in Saskatchewan Is the temporary foreign worker program detrimental to the labour market? Flexible work schedules are greatly appreciated by working mothers 56% of executives are leaning toward an improvement in the economy
Already facing changes in the global regulatory landscape, financial services managers have other challenges: hiring qualified profiles and talent retention. This is what a recent study conducted by Robert Half across seven countries has revealed.
If the recent study conducted by ATB Financial is to be believed, succession plans are not really a priority for Alberta SMEs. Perhaps wrongly, they prefer to focus on growing their business and personnel management.