Five Reasons Your Staffing Agency Should Manage Salary Negotiations

Negotiating compensation is a delicate dance between candidates and companies. Both sides have specific goals in mind and it can be challenging for either to open up fully to the other side. Handing off salary negotiations to your staffing agency is the right choice for an efficient and balanced process. Everyone is able to start…

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Hiring Transparency Translates to Filling Jobs More Efficiently

The Talener team has been speaking with more technology candidates recently who are on the job market for the first time in years.  Whether they’re actively seeking new employment or were part of some of the technology layoffs this past year, none of them are looking forward to the interviewing process. It’s daunting to find…

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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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Balance or Optimize: Is the Grass Green at All?

The grass is greener on the other side. This quip is meant to encourage you to water your own lawn; that all isn’t as it appears over the fence. But what happens when both sides are filled with such anxiety and burnout that there are only tiny tufts of grass that everyone is scrambling to…

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Remote Monitoring: Half of Employees Would Sooner Quit Than Be Surveilled

Remote work is here to stay. However, more than half of tech workers have signaled that they would leave their organization if their remote work came with additional and more invasive digital monitoring.  BI company, Morning Consult published a poll last week asking tech workers whether they would quit if their employers took actions to…

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NYC Amends Salary Range Disclosure Law

In January, the New York City Council announced that it would require salary range requirements on job listings for employees working in New York City.  The bill intended to increase pay transparency and close the persistent wage gap by providing a good faith salary range to applicants.  Initially, this law was set to go into…

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The Last Jobs to be Filled: Hybrid

As we transition out of the height of the pandemic and into warmer weather, many companies are finalizing decisions about where their workforce will be located moving forward.  In many industries, a hybrid or back-to-office approach will gradually phase out remote work. But if you are attempting to recruit technology talent and your policies are…

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Salary Expectations Continue to Rise in 2022

Salary expectations are growing swiftly as companies are being forced to compete openly and loudly for talent. In an already tight tech labor market, this increased competition is leading candidates to adjust their salary expectations in real time. Over the past several months, we’ve seen candidates join the job market at one desired salary level,…

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The Great Reshuffle

After the Great Resignation comes The Great Reshuffle. For much of 2021, we were bombarded with news of employees leaving their jobs in droves. They were pursuing more flexible opportunities, quitting unsupportive work environments, or simply leaving the workforce entirely.  Although demand for talent remains at an all-time high, the exodus of employees has subsided.…

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