Top 3 Things You Should Have a Recruiter Help With, Learn to Work With People You Disagree With, Employer Brand Strategy: Why Does it Matter, and More!

You can do some of it piecemeal... We have talked a lot about hiring and finding good prospects lately and the topic has resonated with quite a few of you. We are all looking for ways to tap into the talent pool and find good, quality prospects. Today, I wanted to go into a little more depth about what it's like to work with a talent recruiter and how you can best leverage their skills along the way…

How often do your values and beliefs affect your attitude about others? When is the last time you openly disagreed with someone at work? How do you respond to conflicts over politics at work? Those were some of the tough questions Johnny C. Taylor, Jr., SHRM-SCP, president and chief executive officer of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), posed Monday to attendees at the opening session of SHRM's Inclusion 2019 event…

- Today and for the future, shared spaces, remote work, parental leave being honed. Hold onto your Yeti cups everyone. In 2020, there will be changes in your workplace. They may be physical — as in new desks or an office remodel — or they could be new company policies on remote work or parental leave. We asked three Capital Region experts to comment on office trends for the coming year: Miriam Dushane is a Managing Partner at Alaant Workforce Solutions, a staffing, recruiting and employment agency…

In my role as managing partner of Alaant, I am fortunate to have a distinct vantage point where I see first-hand from prospective employees and employers the good, bad and ugly of hiring. Every day I am asked by companies how they can attract and keep talent. I can tell you one thing for sure—it doesn’t come down to just money and benefits…

How do Capital Region employers see the job market? Let us know starting next week by participating in the Fall 2019 Alaant Hiring Index. We’ll be gathering your insights on the year to date, as well as your expectations for 2020. Watch your inbox next Tuesday, November 5 for an invitation to take our brief online survey. We’ll announce the collective results in early December. Thank you in advance for sharing your expertise! Read the results of the Spring 2019 Alaant Hiring Index, here.