The ‘gig economy,’ an economy dominated by freelancers, independent contractors, and other contingent workers, is fast approaching (or has already arrived, as some might argue). Although full-time, permanent employees still make up a majority of the workforce, the growth of the freelance workforce is outpacing the overall workforce growth in the US. Considering the rate…
Recruiters are eagerly finding ways to streamline their hiring process and bring top-notch candidates and niche skills to their company. While recruiting the best talent is in itself a difficult job, today, recruiters are also expected to perform deliver responsibilities like: market trend analysis, competitor strategy analysis, and alignment of recruitment and organizational strategies. …
Employers hire for skills, not just degrees. Job market trends show that over half of all jobs across the US require at least an associate level degree, the high competitiveness of the job market means that just having a degree does not warrant employment. In addition to having the minimum requisite credentials, job-seekers are expected…
As an educator, you do whatever you can to prepare students for the competition they’re going to face in the job market. Beyond that, you can only hope the best for them. Because obviously, you can’t foresee the future, isn’t it? But what if you could? What if you exactly knew the skills that’ll be…
How do you decide, as an educator, if your students are job-ready? Because giving your students a graduation certificate doesn’t necessarily make them job-ready. Making students job-ready starts way before their graduation. In fact, the process starts even before a student attends his first lecture. You make (or don’t make ) your students job-ready when…
Although the United States sees the largest enrolment of students in higher education, only around half of these students graduate within six years of joining. A considerable number of enrolled students drop out before graduation, which not only harms the students’ prospects in life but also harms the institutions’ reputation and financial health. Cases of…
Having proven our excellence in groundbreaking HR analytics services, we at Talismatic have now forayed into the sphere of education. Talismatic’s educational analytics brings to educators the insights they need to prepare students to meet the skill demand in the job market. Here are five of the many ways in which Talismatic makes students ready…
In the present, almost-chaotic age of rapidly changing trends, there is one common thing that everyone desires – certainty. Everyone has limited time and resources, which they want to invest in ideas and endeavors that will lead to certain, desirable outcomes. The same applies to students, who want to know if the time and…
Recruiters don’t need to be excellent programmers to hire great talent. But yes, they need to have in-depth knowledge of various recruitment technologies and their usage. This is because the competition for acquiring great talent cannot be won through manual strategizing and execution. Without appropriate knowledge of recruitment analytics software and tools, recruiters cannot expect…
Earlier, recruiters could afford to devote a large part of their time selecting and recruiting well-qualified and niche talent. Metrics like cost per hire, applicant to interview ratio, and the number of applications per role, that formed the KPIs for recruiters, are too ‘last generation’ today. Recruiters today want to, and are expected to, contribute…