Alaant Advisor: Maximize Your Recruiting Efforts, Improve Your Company's Disability-Inclusion Practices, Conquer Unhappiness and more!

With the start to the summer season just around the corner and sunshine on our minds, what better way to kick things off for a great summer than with a playlist of jams to get us in the mood? We’ve put our own spin on things with an Alaant playlist to inspire hiring managers to make the most of their recruiting efforts. Crank it up!

Google recently announced that it will require staffing agencies that supply talent to Google to provide a minimum wage and benefits to their employees. Staffing agencies will have to pay those employees a minimum wage of $15 per hour, and provide specific benefits including access to health insurance, tuition reimbursement of up to $5,000, 12 weeks of paid parental leave, and at least eight paid sick days…

Earlier this year, the Wall Street Journal told the story of Nathan Mort, an employee of Gordon Food Service who tracks warranty claims and has a high-functioning form of autism. The article noted that the number of people with disabilities entering the workforce is rising — good news for the economy, for people with disabilities, and for employers…

Employers want to understand your reason for leaving to make a career move. Here's how to respond. "I DON'T WANT TO BELONG to any club that will accept me as a member," Groucho Marx once quipped. These days, employers seem to turn the statement on its ear when they ask: "What is your reason for leaving your current employer to work here?"…

When I was in business school, I took a course in organizational development. I remember my professor describing how, while he was working in New York, he would watch people take huge breaths to brace themselves before grabbing the door handle to enter their buildings on their way to work. He commented to the class that if we ever found ourselves doing that, we might want to assess whether we had the right job fit…