Whether you are hiring young people on the high end or the lower end of the talent spectrum, my guess is that you need to increase your supply of new job applicants. How can you do that?
The first places most managers and organizations go to look for new applicants are the very same places where they've found successful hires in the past. The i...
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As the forces that drive our work environments, required skills and job responsibilities continue to shift and evolve, you may be asking yourself, “How can I survive and succeed in this new world of work?” I’m happy to share with you my upcoming new podcast ‘Ask Bruce: How to Survive and Succeed in the New World of Work’, launching on all podcas...
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These are some of the things that today's young people are telling us in interviews:
"They act like their power is unquestionable, but anyone can be cancelled overnight."
"My boss doesn't fully trust me to work from home. What? Like I'm going to pretend to work? I could pretend to work just as easily if I went into the office."
"They keep makin...
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It’s been very busy and eventful since RainmakerThinking and I last connected with you! With our many ongoing consulting relationships, numerous speaking engagements, trips across the country and internationally, moving, and new additions to our team, there was no drought of excitement
From USA to Thailand!
I was honored to participate in the...
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If you're trying to be a better manager, it's likely you're one of the nearly 90% of leaders who are undermanaging. That's not a judgment, that's just math.
Undermanagement is not a sign of laziness, apathy, or ineptitude. Actually, it's quite the opposite. Most undermanagement is the result of bad advice, the constant churn of leadership fads. ...
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Flexible schedules. Remote positions. Temp and contract work.
Careers today, especially in the case of Millennials, are a patchwork of short-term and transactional employment situations. Resumes are less likely to feature one or two long tenures at established organizations and far more likely to feature an array of positions, often concurrent w...
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If ever there was a generation-defining 'accident of history', the Covid-19 pandemic is it. Compared to other recent accidents of history--the 2008 recession, 9/11, ongoing war--Covid-19 has directly impacted far more people, of all ages, on a global scale. Quite literally, everyone is going through this together.
We are currently experiencing a...
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If you want to stop turnover and prevent people from quitting, as an employer, you must fight overcommitment syndrome within your ranks.
This is the toxic cycle: When an organization is understaffed, the extra work inevitably must fall to someone. Everything is urgent and important. People overextend themselves, committing to too many projects w...
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Smart employers who want to take control of the resignation wave are dialing into their employer value proposition. What do you have to offer employees in exchange for the great work they do? Are great bosses a benefit of working for you?
By now, it's a cliche to say that people leave bad bosses, but the data continues to back this up: according...
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Much has been said about the potential causes of the talent shortages employers are facing in 2021. But what I haven't seen many people saying is what seems obvious to us and many of our clients at RainmakerThinking: priorities are changing.
In the wake of a global pandemic, everyone, including the most dedicated and hard-working people, is reth...
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