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The success of an organization begins with the hiring process.

Article by Pete WheelanTrying to climb the corporate ladder?

Here's the basic scenario: You've had a few job interviews, and you received an offer from one of the companies.

Just when you thought Facebook had reached its full networking potential, Mark Zuckerberg's team found a new way to enhance the platform.

Do you regularly find yourself sitting at your desk at 5 PM, wondering how you could possibly still have so much left to do?

A little while ago, I made a bad hire for my company.

What do a job search and a road trip have in common?

Free trade pacts and outsourcing are often blamed for the loss of American jobs, but global CEOs at the recent World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, felt that robots, machine learning, and artificial intelligence (AI) will be the main contributors to this problem in the future.Many efficient new technologies are emerging to support humans in manufacturing and business, including robotics, driverless cars, AI systems and 3-D printers.

Article by Jackie RaeLOS ANGELES, CA — Three days ago, Jackie Rae Aubel, a perpetually unemployed 26-year-old, began writing the cover letter intended to precede her application for the role of development assistant for Amazon Studios.

Welcome to Recruiter QA, where we pose employment-related questions to the experts and share their answers!

Remote work may be the future, but there's no reason you can't start getting in on the action now.Given that more and more job seekers are looking for flexible and/or remote opportunities – and more and more employers are offering such opportunities – remote work resource Remote.co has compiled a list of 10 fully remote organizations hiring remote workers right now."Remote workers experience a number of benefits from telecommuting, such as better work-life balance, less stress, improvements in their personal relationships, and cost and time savings," Sara Sutton Fell, founder and CEO of Remote.co, said in a press release.

Healthcare organizations across the board could benefit from better hiring practices, but these improvements are especially important for smaller healthcare institutions.

When it comes to attracting, training, motivating, and unifying employees, more and more companies are using a powerful new tool.

In the 19th and 20th centuries, workers in the United States and other countries fought fiercely for the eight-hour day and the 40-hour week.

Earlier this week, I outlined some of the reasons why talented job seekers often attract attention from the wrong kinds of companies.

Interviews can truly be the worst.

 Recently, MightyRecruiter put together a compilation of interviews with recruiting-industry influencers.

Rarely do employers intend to debilitate job candidates – but it happens anyway.Many job seekers are hamstrung way before their resumes have a chance to stand on their own accomplishments or merits.

In recent years, the "9-box" has become a nearly universal template for identifying high potential ("hipo") leaders, thanks in part to its highly publicized usage at GE under CEO Jack Welch in the 1990s.However, this template provides absolutely no guidance on how to define "high potential." Most organizations define it as "the potential to reach a certain level (e.g., vice president) within a specific time frame (e.g., five years)", but that definition is not helpful to smaller companies that have few management layers.