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Beyond LinkedIn: How to use Social Media in your Recruitment Strategy

We all know about the power of LinkedIn when it comes to recruiting. With it’s millions of users, it’s a great way to source candidates and open the lines of communication. For many talent acquisition teams, their use of social media in their recruitment strategy starts and ends with LinkedIn. But there are other ways

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Tips for Managing Your Team’s Time Off During the Holidays

When the holidays come around, managing a team can become a bit like playing chess, especially when you’re trying to do your best in approving everyone’s time off requests. We all undoubtedly need a break at this time of the year. No one wants a burnt-out team and burnt-out employees will end up leaving you

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Achieving a Better Candidate Experience with Compassion

As recruiters, we are constantly sourcing candidates. Some of us might send emails or texts, individually or batched, but there is always another human being we are trying to reach on the other end. Life is busy and these candidates we are sourcing are in the thick of it. The intricacies of their daily life

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Turn and Face the Strange New World of Work
Turn and Face the Strange New World of Work How Companies are Capitalizing from The Great Resignation

How Companies are Capitalizing from The Great Resignation Did you immediately recognize the David Bowie silhouette, or that our title “Turn and Face the Strange” is an extremely popular line from 1960/70’s album Changes by Bowie? According to a random and totally unscientific study of ten of our staff, 50% knew both points and 50% had

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Will the new office be an escape from home?
Will the new office be an escape from home?

If you’re working remote and getting the work done, why would you want to come back to the office?  Wouldn’t make sense, right? This is something I have been pondering since the summer of last year. Many of us were settling into work from home. If you follow me, my company People Science, or anyone

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RPO/RPI vs Contingent Staffing – A Comparison
RPO/RPI vs Contingent Staffing - A Comparison

Although there is often some confusion around the topic, RPO (Recruitment Process Outsourcing) does not operate the same or provide identical services as contingent staffing companies.  RPO is a new concept in outsource recruiting that provides some similar services but on a wider, more in-depth scale. RPO/RPI was actually founded via the need of clients

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Avoid the Work-From-Home “Burn Out”

Before the COVID-19 pandemic, I was under the impression that working from home would be simpler and free up a decent amount of time, but golly was I wrong! While we may be saving time on some things while working from home, such as commuting, packing lunch and getting ready for work in the mornings,

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WFH: Embrace technology

The world has been turned upside down. Regular Monday through Friday routines are out the window. After years of going into an office, millions of people are now working from home and trying to figure out how to remain productive and connect with their teams. The good news is that technology is here to help

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The Remote Worker’s Blues

Good Morning!  I am writing this blog from my kitchen table.  That is correct, I am working from home.  Due to the Coronavirus, my office is working remotely and doing our part in helping to stop the spread of this illness. This is really the first time in my life that I have been given

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What we are learning and hearing about Recruiting during COVID-19

By:  Christine Nichlos, CEO People Science By noon EST on Monday, March 16th, just a few short days into the COVID-19 lockdown, I had received three calls from clients concerned because they are hearing from their staff that outside Recruiters are aggressively pursuing them for new positions. In other words, their overall staff including their

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