Make the Best Hires, Why Job Seekers Disappear, Political Stances in the Workplace, and More!

With a new school year about to begin and the feeling of getting back to business in full effect, we are sharpening our pencils and before the first bell rings sharing our best tips for making hiring a success. Here are Alaant’s ABCs for making sure you’re best-in-class when it comes to hiring…

A truly scary trend has emerged in the last year: employers are getting ghosted by job seekers. From ditching job interviews to not showing up on the first day, candidates are disappearing without a trace — and ghosting during the hiring process is now one of the biggest problems in recruiting…

When you’re looking to hire talent, you may assess candidates on their skills, traits, and personalities, but in a candidate-driven market, the tables have turned, and candidates are now assessing you! “With September being one of the best months to look for a job, jobseekers are not the only ones who should brush up on their interview skills…

- More than half of employees think politics don't affect productivity, but they also see little value in political discussion at work, according to new survey data from Clutch. Only 24% of employees think it's important to work at a company that aligns with their political views, according to a new report from Clutch, the leading B2B ratings and reviews firm. In fact...

Although job growth is slowing down and the jobless rate is rising in the Capital Region, local companies still have to mount a herculean effort to fill key jobs. Hiring can be so difficult in such a tight job market — where the pool of qualified candidates is too small to fill the number of job openings — that some companies are finding their long-time hiring practices no longer work, forcing them to get creative…