Posts Tagged ‘compensation’
Missed Connections: Why Aren’t Job Seekers and Companies Matching?
LinkedIn’s feed is full of active job seekers. Some are coming out of new rounds of layoffs while others have been searching frantically for months. It also contains contains dozens of new jobs every day. Hiring managers and TA teams are searching for their unicorn. Yet for some reason, there is no connection. We can…
Read MoreSalary Transparency: 2025 Law Updates
More states and municipalities are signing on to salary transparency laws this year. The goal is to close the wage gap and provide transparency to job applicants before they begin the application process. Our goal as staffing experts is to ensure that our clients are equipped with the latest information prior to hiring for or…
Read More7 Core Elements of a Successful Job Description
Very few job descriptions are written from scratch. Most are being repurposed from previous roles, use AI, or elements are copied and pasted from other open jobs online. But every job description must have these 7 elements for a successful candidate search. The Right Title If you were searching for this job, what would you…
Read MoreFive 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…
Read MoreHiring 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…
Read MoreCompliance: 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…
Read MoreThe 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…
Read MoreBalance 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…
Read MoreRemote 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…
Read MoreNYC 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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