The Alaant Hiring Index Survey is Underway, A Talent Shortage Perfect Storm, and More!

Our bi-annual assessment of the Capital Region’s job market is underway. Please take a moment to share the hiring trends you’re seeing, the challenges you’re facing, and your forecast for the rest of 2022.

Click here to take our confidential online survey before it closes on Friday, May 27, and we’ll report collective results next month.

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Fewer babies, lower high school and college enrollment, rapid wage inflation, near-record unemployment, a skills shortage, the Great Resignation and the remnants of Covid-19 are all conspiring to hinder future business growth. Over the past few weeks, I attended one of the leading ed-tech conferences, ASU+GSV, followed shortly thereafter by the SHRM Talent conference. A couple of themes resonated with me at both events…

Alaant Managing Partner, Miriam Dushane talks employee burnout and what to do to ‘nip it in the bud’ and prevent a mass exodus….

Since the pandemic, many employers and employees have come to value greater flexibility in working arrangements. Flexibility is often framed as a women’s issue: when the insurance firm Zurich included the words “part-time”, “job-share” and “flexible working” in its job adverts, for example, the number of women applying for management roles increased by nearly 20%...

Hardly a day goes by where hiring managers don’t face the challenge – and feel the frustration – of trying to land top talent in today’s difficult job market. That’s understandable; with more job openings than candidates to fill them, the process of building top-performing teams has gotten more arduous than ever…