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How Women Are Changing the Game in the Tech Industry

In the tech industry, it’s still largely a boys’ club. A 2021 study found that half of the women who start tech careers abandon them by the age of 35. Despite the push to fix the gender gap in the industry, there’s still a lot of work to do, and many women who want to work in tech end up not feeling comfortable and welcomed. Women also struggle to get promoted in the industry, which has led to poor representation and diversity in tech leadership.

How Would a Shorter Work Week Impact Productivity in a Remote Work Setting?

Most people appreciate the idea of working less and making the same amount of money. The shortened workweek gets a lot of buzz, but business leaders are justifiably hesitant to take it on. How can you work 20% less each year, and still grow as a business? Heck, if you take that much time off, you’ll almost certainly lose all your momentum.

9 Tips That Will Help You Form a Better Onboarding Process

Hiring a candidate can be challenging; sometimes, it can take lots of work. After months of trying to find the right fit for your company, you finally found it. Now, it’s the beginning of the onboarding process, the most important phase of the hiring process.

Top Tech-Related Career Opportunities for 2023

As we move deeper into the future, new career opportunities are taking their place as some of the most exciting to pursue in the new year. For those interested in the tech industry, it’s helpful to have a grasp of some compelling new career opportunities in the field. Here are the top tech-related career opportunities for 2023.

Creating Opportunities for Networking Within Your Remote Company

Remote working has increased the happiness and contentment of scores of employees around the world. From increased flexibility to better work-life balance, there’s no shortage of benefits that remote work has the potential to offer.

Unfortunately, there are some distinct challenges that can arise for remote companies that in-person offices may not face. One of the most significant obstacles for remote organizations is providing networking opportunities for employees within your company.

Here are some effective ways to create opportunities for networking within your remote company.

Top MBA Skills & Experience Your Dream Employer Is Looking For

When pursuing a dream role, it’s always good to consider and hone the skills that your potential employer is looking for in candidates. Unfortunately, determining which skills you should focus on cultivating to make you more attractive in the eyes of your dream employer can be tricky.

Thankfully, having some guidance around distinguishing which key MBA skills employers look for can make the process easier to navigate. Here are the top MBA skills and experience your dream employer is looking for.

Effective Recruiting Strategies & Tips for 2023

As we move deeper into the future, it’s important to constantly iterate, improve and advance the strategies we use to recruit new hires. Staying aware of the most effective recruiting strategies can make it easier to hire quality candidates that thrive in their roles.

Here are some effective recruiting strategies and tips for 2023.

7 Recruiting Strategies - How To Hire Great Employees

Recruitment has always been difficult but the present climate makes things harder. Fewer people are looking for work which means you need to know how to get the same awesome hiring results you are also hoping for with fewer resources to get the job done.

It can still happen, but you do need to go in with the right strategy. In this article, we take a look at seven recruitment strategies that will make your job easier.

The Power of Internships: How Business Should Use Them for Recruiting

For those in hiring positions, it’s no secret that the process of recruiting the right employees can be difficult, time consuming, and ineffective. Between hours of glancing over resumes and hours of conducting interviews, one still has to take a gamble when actually hiring an employee. While the hiring process can work sometimes, other times it can prove to be an ineffective way of finding employees.

Skills to Develop Before Going Into Healthcare Administration

If you want to excel as a healthcare administrator, it’s a good idea to go in with a certain set of skills that will help you thrive in your new role. Many of these skills are less about the operations of a hospital and more about what it takes to collaborate effectively with a room full of people you don’t know — at least not at a personal level.