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The Coming Talent War Over Millennials and Their Transformational Skills
By as early as 2025, as much as 75 percent of the global workforce could be millennials, and they will bring a whole new set of demands and expectations to the modern workplace. Importantly, they ...
Companies Can Attract Millennials by Helping Repay Their Student Debt
Like millions of her peers, Nicole Read graduated with thousands of dollars of debt. Unlike most of them, she's getting direct help from her employer to pay it back. The 26-year-old's job at event ...
How Employers Can Keep Their Edge in a Tight Job Market
With the U.S. experiencing record-low employment, U.S. employers and organizations must use every resource they have to find the talent they require. A new report from Gallagher suggests innovation ...
Hiring Older Workers in a Tight Labor Market Can Be a Smart Investment
Carriers and others are hiring in the U.S. with an unemployment rate at 50-year lows. With this statistic in mind, the argument toward recruiting older workers grows even stronger, according to ...
Progressive Plans 10,000-Employee Hiring Spree
Progressive plans to hire more than 10,000 people through 2019 to help propel rapid growth. The Ohio-based property/casualty insurer said it wants to fill analyst, IT, corporate, customer care, ...
Hiring Ex-Convicts Could Be a Good Company Investment
Executives looking to hire new talent might want to consider ex-convicts who are now on the hunt for jobs. Researchers from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University looked at ...
If You Want a Job, 63 Percent of Insurers Are Looking, Jacobson/Ward Study Found
A majority of insurance companies plan to hire additional employees in 2018, even as the industry's unemployment rate hovers at a record low and the labor market remains extremely competitive, ...
Insurers Pursuing IT Transformations Must Up Their Recruiting Game
Insurance industry demand for talent in areas such as big data will likely "exceed available supply by a factor of four," according to a new blog posting from McKinsey & Company. That reality ...