ETSPosts Tagged ‘covid19’
In 2022, We’ll Finally Get Back to Work
If you were holding your breath for all of 2021, worrying over every headline about employees leaving their jobs in droves and candidates demanding exorbitant salaries, let me tell you one thing: It’s time to breathe. I’m not predicting that the economy is going to be great, nor will I predict there is a recession on…
Read MoreKeeping Your Team From Feeling Burned Out
When someone launches into a breakup speech, they usually try to let their partner down easy with some variation of “It’s not you, it’s me.” Workers in the U.S. have been “breaking up” with their employers in record numbers in 2021. It is a wild and unsustainable statistic, but just in November, the U.S. Department…
Read MoreThe Pandemic Isn’t Going Away — Do I Still Reopen the Office?
One of the most frustrating parts about flying is when your plane has to circle the airport until you get permission to land. The worst part isn’t the delay — hey, it happens sometimes — but that you never know how long you’ll be stuck in a holding pattern. You get encouraging reports from the…
Read MoreHow to Attract Job Seekers Who Are Still ‘Just Looking’
Something unexpected happened last month. A record number of American workers — an eye-popping 4.3 million — quit their jobs. To put that in perspective, it’s almost three percent of the entire workforce across the country. What’s even more astounding is that this trend got named the “Great Resignation” when the number of people leaving their…
Read MoreThe Recipe for a Return to Normal
A year ago, the headlines were dire. “New York City is Dead Forever,” read one of the most memorable ones. More recently, another one was slightly more hopeful: “New York Is Not Dead, But It Is On Life Support.” There were plenty of predictions that the city — and cities in general, for that matter…
Read MoreHow to Survive Employment’s ‘Perfect Storm’
When they look at the country’s economic situation, most experts are seeing only sunny skies. The commercial and industrial sectors are roaring back, the number of available jobs is hitting new records, jobless claims continue to fall, consumer demand is at all time highs — and the list goes on. But for a lot of…
Read MoreSeize More Than Just the Day
I thought that nothing could be worse than that moment two years ago when doctors informed me that my son, Ithan, had a brain tumor. As a parent, nothing on earth is more important to me than my children and we were completely blindsided by the news. It was utterly devastating but in hindsight this…
Read MoreWake Up! We’re in a ‘Digital Pandemic’
Have you noticed that everyone around you — the colleagues you work with on a daily basis, the clients that you’ve had for years, and even your closest friends and family members — have seemed stressed out lately? All of us have dealt with anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic, but recently many of us have…
Read MoreTransitioning from Employee to Freelancer
Contract and freelance employment has been more relevant than ever. Both candidates and clients may prefer this due largely in part to the fact that both job seekers and employers can benefit from this format of work in a volatile market. Although there are many reasons for the need of freelance/contract workers, more recently, companies…
Read MoreThoughts From A Recruiter During COVID-19
We’re going to go out on a whim and say that we don’t believe there’s a way to adequately discuss in full, the topic of COVID-19. Our hearts go out to all of those who have been negatively impacted. In many ways, we all have been affected and arguably changed forever, but it would be…
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