Labor Market Shortages Top List of Challenges In our most recent poll on the recruitment challenges faced by organizations today, TalentRISE finds that, by a significant margin, 40% of respondents cite “too few qualified candidates” as their top challenge. The next most cited issues are “recruiting inefficiencies” (14%) and “retention” (11%). “It’s not a surprise…

TalentRise was recently quoted in the Hunt Scanlon article, “12 Reasons Why Companies Hire Executive Search Firms.”  Read the entire article below. Is retaining an executive search firm always the best route to take when hiring top performing talent? Hunt Scanlon Media and CNA International have brainstormed with senior executives, CHROs and top recruiters. Here’s…

Dave Swinehart, Director of Human Capital and Operations at HealthScape Advisors is absolutely passionate about getting the right type of talent hired. With a stated mission to be “the trusted advisor for clients navigating the evolving healthcare environment”, he acknowledges that recruitment in such a complex and rapidly-changing industry requires a careful and strategic approach. It also…

Essential Research Tools Every Recruiter Should Utilize While data from CareerBuilder shows that 52% of employers currently use social networking sites to research job candidates, up significantly from 43% last year, that still leaves roughly one half who unfortunately aren’t doing so. In today’s world, there’s simply no excuse to ignore the vast array of useful technological…

On-Demand recruiters are one of the best solutions to handling talent acquisition challenges. There’s an ever-growing consensus that attracting and retaining experienced talent is one of the most critical challenges companies face today. Multiple surveys point to the fact that the availability of talent is, in many industries, having a major impact on growth. In…

TalentRISE recently spoke with CHRO Roberta McQuade, formerly of Signode Industrial Group and ITW. Many of our readers may know Roberta as she is one of the most well-connected senior Human Resources executives in the Chicagoland area. Her experience encompasses public, privately-held, private equity and foreign-owned businesses in manufacturing, food/consumer, aerospace, and oil/chemical industries. In…

Since I’ve spent the majority of my career working for organizations to help them hire the best talent possible, it’s always gratifying to sit on the other side of the desk to share my insights from the past 20 plus years with job seekers. So, along with my fellow TalentRISE partner, we gladly accepted a…

Speaking with Gina Max, Senior Manager, Talent Management, at USG Corporation. We recently had the pleasure of speaking with Gina Max, Senior Manager, Talent Management, at USG Corporation. USG, more than 100 years old, is North America’s leading producer and distributor of gypsum wallboard, joint compound and a vast array of related products for the construction…