Pay transparency – for better or for worse?

How to build a pay transparency foundation and integrate it into your culture. 

While we’d be excused for thinking terms like “gender-wage gap”, “pay gap”, “equal pay” and “glass ceiling” are modern concepts – focused on the disparate treatment women and historically under-represented groups experience in the workplace – political activism focused on addressing these inequities date back to at least the 1860’s.

Read the Q&A with Michael Kestenbaum, Managing Director with Gallagher’s Executive Compensation practice to learn some best practices for developing, implementing and managing pay transparency in an organization.     

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Challenged to Get HR Budget Approved? Let’s talk to the CFO

Budgeting. For HR leaders it’s a time of hope and, too often, frustration. Learning to speak the right language and building an ongoing relationship with your organization’s finance leaders can pave the way to HR budgeting success. We sat down with a veteran CFO to find out more. 

Read the Q&A with Michael Rodriguez, Clinical Assistant Professor of Accounting at Baylor University, Business Advisor, and former CFO for organizations such as Magnolia and Clarient (a GE Healthcare company) to learn some best practices. 

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Want To Win The Fierce Competition For Talent? Live Up To Your Marketing

Highlighting company values in candidate marketing is a great strategy, but candidate experience must live up to them.
Employees are changing jobs at a greater clip than ever before. In an effort to stand out in recruiting, it’s smart to lean into your company values when marketing job openings. But if candidate experiences – and subsequent employee experiences – don’t live up to those values, you’ll lose the best candidates and your employer brand will suffer.

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What Do You Need To Become A Recruiter?

Part 3 of a 3-part Series

Talent acquisition professionals share their personal career stories, revealing how common it is for recruiters to come into the profession as a 2nd or 3rd career. Many were drawn to recruiting through serendipity or by seeking to expand their own careers in new and interesting ways.

In the culmination of this three-part series, top talent acquisition professionals share what additional advice they have for would-be recruiters.

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Got Talent? How 3 High Performing Recruiters Found A Second Career In TA

Part 2 of a 3-part Series

Is there something about having work experiences in other domains that helps people become top recruiters?  And what transferrable skills did they bring to the job that have helped them be so successful? Three top talent acquisition professionals who made the switch from completely different careers to ask three questions. How did you fall into recruiting? What capabilities are most important for someone considering a career in talent acquisition? Do you have any more advice for would-be recruiters? 

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How I Fell Into Recruiting

Part 1 of a 3-part Series

Why are so many successful recruiters come from completely different career areas? Is there something about having work experiences in other domains that helps people become top recruiters? And what transferrable skills did they bring to the job that have helped them be so successful?

Hear from three top talent acquisition professionals—including our own Brenan German—who made the switch from completely different careers.

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How The Pandemic Enhanced The Need For HR Outsourcing

The pandemic brought about rapid changes in the HR function—from early days of figuring out work-from-home policies to supporting new hybrid work models, employee expectations and meeting the challenges of recruiting today. Now, as we (hopefully) approach an endemic phase, the experiences of the pandemic have changed HR—and the job is not getting any easier.

While this poses new challenges for HR leaders, the experiences of the pandemic have also presented HR with unprecedented opportunities that will support this evolution of HR.

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