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The Counter-Offer Retention Trap
It's a common occurrence: A strong performer tells their manager they've been offered a role at another company and asks if there's any way to stay. The manager scrambles. HR gets pulled in. A counter-offer is put together, sometimes within hours. The employee...
Is Your Frontline Hiring Strategy Ready for a Talent Squeeze?
Data from the ICIMS Insights March Workforce Report1 shows that while employer demand for new roles across the labor market is still trending higher year-over-year, hiring execution and candidate engagement are struggling to keep pace. This trendline is creating...
The End of “Free” Hiring: What Indeed’s Changes Mean for Your Recruiting Strategy
If your hiring strategy has relied on organic job traffic from Indeed, this is the moment to pay attention. In March, Indeed rolled out one of the most significant distribution changes we’ve seen in years. And while it’s being framed as a quality and candidate...
When Every AI-Generated Resume Looks the Same
A hiring manager opens 200 applications for a single role. The cover letters are polished and the resumes are well-formatted. The bullet points are sharp, action-verbed, and quantified. By the 40th application, something feels off. By the 80th, the manager has started...
How to Approach Salary Negotiation: 5 Tips for HR Leaders
According to BambooHR’s 2025 Compensation Trends Report1, half of employees are currently struggling to make ends meet, and almost three-quarters (73%) feel they deserve a raise for their current job responsibilities. A lot of salary negotiation advice is directed...
The Source of Burnout We Don’t Talk About
When I was a kid, “burnout” was something you did to shorten the life of the tires on your car. Burnout means something different than that now, and while it doesn’t affect your tires, it can affect nearly every part of your life and work. I want to talk about a very...
The Power of Workforce Planning Templates
You wouldn’t buy a home without a budget, a plan for future needs (that home studio or nursery), and a forecast of property value growth. Strategic workforce planning (SWP) works the same way, except instead of property, you’re investing in people and capabilities to...
CHRO Strategies for Leading Through a Hiring Slowdown
Reality check: Hiring for open roles isn’t always a viable option. Amid budget pressures, economic uncertainty, and rapid change, organizations must take a more strategic approach to how work gets done. That may mean relying on existing talent, tapping into the...
What Skills-Based Hiring Actually Looks Like
Every spring brings a familiar wave of cap-and-gown photos, followed by résumés flooding into recruiting inboxes. For the past few decades, we've seen new grads competing for entry-level roles and employers using the four-year degree as a basic filter. But recently,...
How Contract and Fractional Talent Will Shape the 2026 Workforce
The workforce landscape continues to evolve as economic volatility, artificial intelligence (AI), and shifting employee expectations challenge traditional staffing models. Full-time roles still have their place, but more organizations are turning to flexible talent,...
What Rituals Do You Use to Anchor Your Leadership?
Leadership is not built only in big moments of presentations, high-stakes decisions, or visible wins. It is shaped over time through what leaders practice consistently. This is where rituals matter. Unlike habits, which are often automatic, rituals are performed with...
Rethinking L&D for 2026: From Learning Events to AI-Powered Growth
The world of learning and development is having a serious glow-up. The old model of bringing everyone into a workshop, serving stale coffee, and calling it “employee growth” just isn’t cutting it anymore. Teams are distributed, attention spans are short, and employees...