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Alaant’s Tom Schin shares 5 “CAN DO” New Year’s Resolutions for recruitment.

Businesses are on a hiring spree during the Great Resignation of 2021, with many throwing out signing bonuses, lowering their standard qualifications, tapping boomerang employees and taking a harder look at their “enthusiastic stayers.” As retention efforts heat up, you’ll probably hear more about the “stay interview.”…

Heading into 2022, Capital Region Employers say they will be hiring, but expect challenges in doing so. According to the Alaant Workforce Solutions Hiring Index, 76-percent of employers expect growth and to hire in the new year. But of that, 86-percent said it will be difficult to find the people they need…

Economists say they expect the U.S. labor market to strengthen in the months ahead, despite the surge in Covid-19 cases due to the fast-spreading Omicron variant, because employers still need a lot more workers. The Labor Department’s latest employment report…

The year was 2020. Damaris Skelton was in a hospital room preparing to give birth to her daughter as she filled out forms for a new job and confirmed all her paperwork was submitted. “I wanted to work. I wanted to make my own money and be able to contribute and do something within my field,”…