This week on TRF we cover:
Riots in the streets of Calgary! The little bylaw was not very well thought out.
In the News
- Remote workers face the cold facts, they are 35% higher risk of being laid off.
- Salesforce joins the flood of tech industry lay offs
- UPS cuts management and contractors in a bid to save $1BB in costs, that is out of the $100BB in sales in 2022
- In happier news, the global online recruitment market is set to reach $49.2 BB by 2030
Tip of the Week
3 simple things to improve your job ads.
- Shorten your sentences
- 3 bullet points max!
- Pay attention to the words you use. “Demonstrated ability” means different things to older workers than it does to younger workers
Recruiting Insights
- Linked In XRay search options, including key fields like job title will have an impact on sourcing tools. SeekOut and hireEZ have a work around.
- More on skills based hiring. When 46% of workers say their formal qualifications are not relevant to what they are doing in their current job. You need to ask yourself why the fixation on that bachelor’s degree.
- Bigger isn’t better. 85% of mid-sized companies reported ZERO layoffs last year.
