by Steve Lowisz
| Oct 30, 2017 | Trends
Working from home is all the rage. You see employers offer it as a perk left and right, but I’ve been a skeptic ever since the trend reared its head. First, I need to say that I do have remote workers. One of the sayings we have at my company (and a value I instill...
by Steve Lowisz
| Oct 19, 2015 | Recruiting, Trends
Last week I had the privilege of giving a Keynote presentation at the annual Michigan SHRM conference in Grand Rapids. In my talk I presented the findings from marketplace research projects I’ve been working on for the past two years, in which we surveyed real...
by Steve Lowisz
| Jun 29, 2015 | Trends, Uncategorized
The recent news of CTPartner’s bankruptcy might serve as a warning sign of things to come for retained and other traditional search firms in our industry. Though these types of firms have seemingly been around forever, that may be the very problem – many of these...
by Steve Lowisz
| Dec 5, 2014 | Trends
As a business owner I’m often asked about a practice being embraced more frequently by many organizations, yet discouraged by others: working remotely. Working from home is consistently up for debate in an era where many employees are looking to prioritize work-life...
by Steve Lowisz
| Dec 3, 2013 | Generations, Succession Planning, Trends
Baby Boomers – the generation born between 1946 and 1964 – are finally beginning to retire. Their ongoing mass exodus from the workforce is so prevalent, it’s responsible for an overall drop in labor force participation from 66% to 63.9% nationally, according to a...
by Steve Lowisz
| Nov 5, 2013 | Job Boards, LinkedIn, Recruiting, Social Media, Sourcing, Trends
Recruiters, let me ask you a question: Why is it that any time I log on to LinkedIn, 15 of the last 17 posts seem be job listings? Are we THAT lazy??? Overposting jobs on LinkedIn is yet another example of Robot Recruiting. With hardly any real content being shared...
