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Protecting Yourself Against Fraudulent Recruiters & Hiring Scams

N2Growth Blog

Today’s competitive job market can be rife with job offers and opportunities but also with scams. Be cautious of firms requesting upfront payments for job applications or selling additional services such as resume writing or career coaching. Your next career move is too significant to leave to chance. LinkedIn or WhatsApp ).

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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: The New Business Imperative

HR Digest

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) is not a new concept. In practice, these important shifts mean that businesses are leaning heavily on their HR departments to source, hire, and advance more diverse talent and build more inclusive workplace cultures. Communicate skills-based career pathways.

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Championing Diversity and Inclusion at Bank of America

HR Digest

In 2012, we began to launch Diversity Leadership Councils, starting with our Black Executive Leadership Council (BELC). Our approach is to invest in our employees, so they can build a career with us. When our employees have the tools and resources to manage their life and their career, they are able to better deliver for our clients.

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The Untapped Market Of People Skilled Through Alternative Routes

The Horizons Tracker

In a recent article , I looked at how skills-based recruitment can help people who are traditionally overlooked get given a fair crack in the labor market. A sizeable group A recent report from Opportunity@Work highlights the difficulties these people face, however. However, this problem is not exclusive to STARs alone.

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The Rise In Portfolio Careers

The Horizons Tracker

Once upon a time the portfolio career was seen as pretty sexy and came to typify the “free agent nation” spoken about by Dan Pink way back in 2001. The report highlights the work done by Smart , the freelancers cooperative founded in Belgium before spreading out into seven other EU countries. Different needs.

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Mastering A Career Change After 50

HR Digest

To put it bluntly, we still live in a world where you’ll face hurdles if you’re looking to start a new career or reboot an old one. The HR Digest spoke to a few people who made a career change after 50 in search of a better pay, work-life balance, and a sense of purpose in life. So what all is needed to make a career switch at 50?

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The Growth In Skills-Based Recruitment

The Horizons Tracker

This presents a considerable market for employers, as there are an estimated 70 million people across the United States “skilled through alternative routes” With labor markets tight, more and more employers are looking to skills-based hiring to find the talent they need.

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