A good read on the @Glassdoor blog for HR on why employer brand efforts are critical to increasing the caliber of your job candidates, and your success in converting them to permanent employees.

How to take over for a “bad leader” and get off on the right foot with your new team and organization.

Are you hiring people with the right qualities? If you want engaging leadership, these are some specific characteristics to look for.

Are you rewarding your employees to hit financial targets? There may be a better way to create engaged, committed, creative employees.

Over on Glassdoor, 93% of employee reviews are about company culture. It’s a critically important metric in your hiring efforts. So if you want to hire the best, start by cultivating a better company narrative around what your people say about your company culture.

The Source and Recruit Company team has been impressed by the resilience of so many of the companies we’ve worked with over the past year. There’s a methodology to resilience, and we like the way @FutureForum poses it.

You don’t have to be driven by one singular, solitary purpose to be successful and happy in your work. You simply need to find a career path that feels right and matches your natural interests. Here’s how to design a career path where work doesn’t feel like work.

“I am so excited to be waking up every morning making a difference.” Employees want to feel appreciated, taken care of, important—like what they’re doing matters, both collectively and individually.

Most CEOs want to be change-makers within their industries. A recent Gartner poll showed that 78% of CEOs see their companies as pioneers. To get there, CEOs must surround themselves with people who possess an “enterprising mindset.” Learn how to identify this candidate interest in your interviewing process in today’s blog.

One skill has become incredibly important in 2020: the art of the #smize. 😁😷 In the days of mask wearing, smiling with one’s eyes has become an indispensable way to communicate.

As a leader, bringing out the best in others starts, of course, with hiring people who have the potential to begin with. That’s our job. Your job is to cultivate your hires and bring out their best.

The late, great Eddie Van Halen was a guitar legend. In a piece he wrote for @PopMech a few years ago, he offered a glimpse at a lesson he learned early on from his dad: “If something doesn't do what you want it to, there's always a way to fix it.”

The ability to give/receive feedback graciously is central to most corporate jobs. Yet we’re all mostly pretty terrible at it. One @TEDTalks I recently heard from cognitive psychologist LeeAnn Renninger offers up a 4-part approach to feedback that works.

What can you do to be the best possible leader right now? @Glassdoor analyzed employee reviews in 2020 to pinpoint which leaders are polling best among employees — and why.

How important is a sense of belonging to happiness at work? Long before the pandemic sent many of us home to work, a substantial number of people reported feeling “physically and emotionally isolated at work” per @HarvardBiz review circa 2019.

2020 has been the year of toddlers interrupting Zoom calls. In fact, if there’s one thing companies have learned this year amidst all the remote work and scrambling, it’s that creating a family-friendly work culture is critical to both serving and retaining employees.

#ThoughtLeader has become one of those buzz phrases you hear all the time. But you can’t just call yourself a thought leader. You have to take the right steps to get there. Read our latest blog post for more.

Want to polish your team’s Zoom skills? @HarvardBiz reports on what we can learn from deaf people when it comes to nonverbal communication.

In 1980, the novice U.S. Hockey Team won the gold medal in the Lake Placid Olympics, beating the heavily favored Soviet Union team, who had won the gold 4x running. You can hire all the dazzling talent in the world, but without solid teamwork, you simply cannot win.

One of the great challenges of identifying leaders with the potential for success is looking beyond the sum of their experience to truly understand the approach they’ll bring to guiding their teams and shaping their organizations.