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Tech Layoffs: Recruiters Don’t Feel So Lucky

HR Digest

As layoffs hit tech, professional recruiters are forced to rethink their careers. Welcome to the painful world of human resources where AI tools may take over work from professional hirers who are currently facing the axe. Recruiting: A Bellwether Career? Layoffs that began in tech are now spilling to retail and beyond.

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Some Resume Action Verbs That Showcase Your Talent

HR Digest

Nowadays, applicant tracking systems or ATS is used to weed out a large number of applications, and when your resume finally makes it into someone’s hands, it typically gets just a 15-second glance, according to Human Resources and hiring managers. Your resume can be a door opener, or a career stopper depending on how you write it.

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17 High-Paying Jobs for Women

HR Digest

Earnings vary according to the engineering discipline, but median salaries often approach or exceed six figures. For example, chemical engineers earn a median annual salary of $96,616. The median annual income for a woman engineer, in general, is $65,468. The median annual income for a woman engineer, in general, is $65,468.

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The Skills Gap That's Slowing Down Your Career

Harvard Business Review

Career speed bumps (much like their counterparts in the road ) can take you by surprise. Take not having the right credentials, one common career speed bump. It's easy to ignore if you are speeding along in your career with the same employer, but suddenly losing your job can send you careening out of control.

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How a Bathtub-Shaped Graph Helped a Company Avoid Disaster

Harvard Business Review

Caught up in administrative activities such as managing employee records and planning company picnics, human resources departments can too easily lose sight of their primary function: Making sure the organization has the needed human capital to implement its strategy. Other types of data have similar strategic value.

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A Fairer Way to Make Hiring and Promotion Decisions

Harvard Business Review

This lack of information made it difficult to make informed, objective decisions for succession planning and leader career development. By matching leader and position profiles, the tool performs a very sophisticated fit analysis of candidates for open positions. Gender Hiring Human resources'

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The Big Disconnect in Your Talent Strategy and How to Fix It

Harvard Business Review

HR systems emphasize long-term relationships and high performance, with big investments in selection and development, amortized over a long career. Procurement typically owns your “resource planning system” for contract workers. The analysis of this data provided resource visibility across their entire organization.