Leveraging the Hype Cycle for Your Career Search

Hype Cycle, a term coined by Gartner, often describes the cycle of maturation, adoption, and social applications for technology.  Largely, this method zooms out on applications to see how tech will evolve over time. It provides reliable insight to manage deployment and meet company goals. However, the Hype Cycle is being adopted by job applicants…

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Why are Companies Reluctant to Continue Interviewing New Candidates?

Why are companies so reluctant to keep interviewing new candidates when someone is already in the third or fourth round of interviews? Too often, companies bank on one applicant who is already in process to fill the job.  It’s one of the biggest mistakes that organizations make during the hiring process.  The job market is…

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Avoiding the Job Application Black Hole

Finding a new job is stressful. Finding a new job when you’re already employed is a full-time job. The preparation, resume writing, skills assessments and interviews are nothing short of a juggling act. Yet, before you ever get the chance to speak to someone, you have to apply. Ideally, every application would come with a…

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How Quickly Your Staffing Partner Should Deliver Resumes

How quickly do you expect to receive resumes from your staffing partner? Recently Talener asked that very question to get a better understanding of the expectations that our clients have in regard to receiving resumes.  Once they have engaged our services and have completed an intake call for a particular position, how long do they…

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Hiring is Human: The Argument Against AI in Recruiting

The Human Element At its core, recruitment is inherently human. More than matching people to jobs, we match people with specific skills to other people with skills. Together they form a brain trust, capable of using their experiences and talents to solve problems and generate new ideas. Recruitment goes beyond keywords and skills sets. It…

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Hiring Technology-Based Jobs for the Remainder of 2023

As the technological landscape continues to evolve at an unprecedented pace, so do the hiring trends in technology-based jobs. The second half of 2023 promises to bring about exciting shifts in the way companies recruit and onboard tech talent. From remote work becoming the norm to the rise of niche skills, staying ahead of these…

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Compliance: Planning Beyond the NYC Salary Range Law

The NYC Salary Range Transparency Law is now in effect. However, the law gives us insight beyond updating and adding salary ranges to positions that can be performed in part or in full in New York City. Moving forward, all job postings (including active postings advertised before November 1st) will require a ‘good faith’ and…

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The Good, The Bad & The Ugly: Consequences of Salary Transparency Laws

Salary transparency laws have been cropping up over the past several years. States and cities across the country have acknowledged that there are persistent wage gaps that have limited lifetime compensation largely for women and POC.  However, there are consequences and challenges to these laws that leave many with mixed feelings. Overall, these laws create…

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Spending Scale Backs Don’t Include Tech

Facebook announced a potential layoff of 10% of its workforce in July. Google and Walmart are missing their earnings projections. It feels as if every large organization is banging the drum of layoffs, spending cuts, and reorganization going into the last quarter of 2022. Companies that are worried about the economic downturn will likely cut…

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Faking D&I: Wells Fargo’s Farce Damages Everyone’s Credibility

“What did Wells Fargo do this time?” – as if we’ve just come to expect to the scandals that come to light from some of the nation’s largest companies. Though the spotlight is once again on Wells Fargo, the credibility of the entire effort towards diversity and inclusion hiring has been damaged. We’d like to…

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