Career

With a million jobs added since January, the American job market currently belongs to the buyers. Candidates have more options to choose from, which means your company must offer roles that appeal to both their financial and emotional needs if it wants to win over top talentFree lunches and 401(k) matching are no longer enough to attract the best talent.

Welcome to Benefits on the Fringe, the monthly Recruiter.com column where Jason McDowell covers the most unique benefits today's employers are using to woo talent, as well as advances and innovations in the employee benefits realm.Employers can choose from a laundry list of perks and benefits for their employees, and this column has covered many of them.

My two daughters used to love writing.

For years, mothers have faced a tough choice: to work or not to work?

Tech CEOs are at odds with President Trump's plan to end policies protecting illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children.

Organizations like Coro and Service Year exist to create cadres of socially minded, collaborative leaders to lead us into the future.

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

Recruiters are, by necessity, a diverse lot.

Frenzy is one of the major obstacles preventing people from leading engaged, happy, and fulfilled lives personally and professionally.

Does your job fail to make use of your full potential?

The U.S. economy added 156,000 net new jobs in August, missing expectations for 180,000 jobs.

One of the most common questions I get from job seekers is, "How long should my job search really take?"It's a good question: Knowing what's "normal" can help you determine whether you're on the right track or in need of a course correction.Unfortunately, there is no normal when it comes to the job search.

Given that 87 percent of workers globally are disengaged, there's a good chance our CEOs are disengaged, too.

Where do you go to connect with talent?

Recruiters and their IT support teams know a thing or two about keeping up with technology.

More people are trading in commutes and cubicles for couches and coffee shops: As of 2016, 43 percent of employees worked remotely at least part of the time, up from 39 percent in 2012, according to Gallup's State of the American Workplace report.

Small business hiring was little changed in August, with companies adding 48,000 jobs.

Step into any bar across America at about 5:30 p.m.

When I moved to Oregon from California a few years ago, I decided to learn how to fish.I grew up in a family for which fishing wasn't very popular; I can only remember fishing once in my entire childhood.

"Survival" and "predictability" were the primary career standards in the obsolete workplace.