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Why Calling Your Workers Heroes Can Backfire

Harvard Business

In 2020, Instacart launched a “Household Heroes” campaign to recruit 300,000 workers to the platform. At the height of pandemic-era lockdowns, the term “hero” was used to describe full-time workers including frontline health workers, bus drivers, supermarket cashiers, and other workers who had to appear at work in-person.

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Gig economy 2020: The new revolution

QEmploy

Gig economy 2020 The new revolution. 2020 Gig economy definition: The gig economy represents the total of flexible, consulting or freelance, temporary or full-time jobs, intermediated through an online platform that’s interconnecting people and businesses. movement that started in Germany and will reach maturity in 2020.

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Why it’s good to change old habits

The Source

For the last few weeks, the Source thought leadership team has been busy rating a huge amount of consulting firm content to input to our Quality Ratings Report covering the whole of 2020. So why are firms consistently falling short? There could be a few reasons: Fear of giving away the crown jewels.

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Emerging Technology in the Accounting Industry: Instrument not Obstacle

Tom Spencer

This can be seen from their graduate recruitment process. Recruitment screening assessments increasingly ask how candidates, as newly appointed auditors, would use emerging technologies. 2020) Skills shortage list checker Accounting (General). The audit process has been vastly altered by emerging technologies. Lets Take a Look.

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How to Solve 3 Modern Cross-Cultural Leadership Challenges

Organizational Talent Consulting

Cross-Cultural Strategy #2: Recruit for Intercultural Competence Talent acquisition is a critical process for any leader and business. Focusing on retention and making changes where needed to meet the needs of cross-cultural employees will benefit recruiting efforts by improving the employment value proposition. Jossey-Bass.

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Want a Data-Driven Organization? Start with Your Talent Strategy

Organizational Talent Consulting

There is a high demand for employees with data analytics skills, and it is very challenging to source, recruit, and retain those who possess these analytical attributes. Culture Lever #6 : How leaders recruit, promote, and excommunicate. 2020, November 23). There are tangible rewards and social rewards. Grossman, R.

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Clarity Consultants Success Stories: Clarity Creates eLearning Modules for Fortune 50 Health Benefits Company

Clarity Consultants

A company that prides itself in having one of the industry’s best training programs, our client aimed to convert sales training courses to eLearning modules that would help its salesforce kick-off 2020 with a bang. First, Clarity’s sales and recruiting teams worked closely with our client to deliver five consultants?—?four The Results.

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