Old Way of Thinking Job Hopping with two years of tenure or less is CAREER SUICIDE. New Way of Thinking Job Hopping gains valuable experience that will pay off in the long run. Why the Change in Thinking? Changing Corporate Cultures. Life commitment to one firm is gone. Pensions have become obsolete. Employer… Read more »
There is perception out there that the practice of retaining an Executive Retained Search company is for hiring in C-Suite and mostly by Fortune 100 companies. Most worry about the risk of paying an advance retainer just in case the recruiting company does not deliver. Others feel they lose something if they do an exclusive… Read more »
Why You Should Use a Niche Recruiter to Fill Your Opening 1. Recruiters spend every day, day in and day out, finding the specialized candidates you need. They don’t just talk to ad responses. They attend professional conferences and seminars talking to passive candidates and turning them into active candidates. They have in-house databases of thousands… Read more »
As long as companies continue to focus on offsetting financial risk, job security and career growth for actuaries is assured. Innovation is creating more and different opportunities for candidates who are open to change and willing to expand their statistical knowledge to new applications. The increasing competition between insurance companies and consulting firms will continue… Read more »
To truly be Data Scientists other industries require marketing and business statisticians to broaden their software skills beyond SAS and R to Hive and Python. We are starting to see the insurance industry ask more of their actuarial hires in their software and database skills. Historically, actuaries haven’t had the need for sophisticated programming skills…. Read more »
An Indeed study found that 33% of the job vacancies in the U.S. remain open for more than three months. The cost of these unfilled jobs is estimated at $160 billion a year. What can you do to avoid this cost and attract the best people through your hiring processes? … Read more »
We were lucky to mistakenly receive an email from one of our clients that was meant for their internal hiring managers only. This was a large, fast moving consumer goods company and they very specifically outlined why taking soooooo long to fill open positions was hurting their company. We were lucky because this reinforced many… Read more »
A great recruiter can make your job search or filling your hiring need far easier than going it alone. If you’ve worked with the same recruiter throughout your career or for other openings, they will know your expectations and exceptions without you telling them. The openness that comes from working together over time will pay… Read more »
If you want to have a successful relationship with your staffing or recruiting agency, your most important role is “communicator.” That doesn’t mean just giving orders or only calling them when you have a problem. As with any other successful professional relationship, you have to contribute more actively to the process. Here are five key… Read more »
Has this ever happened to you? You’re interviewing a candidate for an open position, and you realize they’re not the right person for that job —but they’re a highly skilled, intelligent person who would fit very well into your corporate culture. And you know if you let them go, they’ll be snapped up by another… Read more »