HR trends: Onboarding

About the series: CV-19 has accelerated many trends, including (or especially!) those related to HR and recruitment. Companies that want to hire valuable candidates – who don’t quit after 3 months – have to make sure they keep up with the newest trends. What’s even more important: they need to implement new strategies in the right way.

Trends that are introduced too fast and/or by the wrong department will backfire by e.g. generating additional costs, negative employer branding, losing valuable candidates, longer recruitment processes, low(er) candidate experience, etc.

To help companies avoid these mistakes, we put together a summary of the most important trends along an employee’s life cycle – with their accompanying threats and – where possible – adding relatively simple quick wins – everything backed up with stats and real cases.

This week, we are sharing one trend and threats related to Phase #3 out of 5: Onboarding.
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“Power’s not given to you. You have to take it.” by Beyoncé

LMGTFY: Beyoncé Giselle Knowles-Carter (born 1981), American singer, songwriter, and actress. Lead singer of the 1990’s R&B girl-group Destiny’s Child. Throughout her career, both with Destiny’s Child and solo, Beyoncé has sold over 100 million records worldwide and won 22 Grammy Awards.

Inspirational quote: “Power’s not given to you. You have to take it” Beyoncé

Career Consultant Diary: “Update my LinkedIn profile? I’ve gotten divorced”

Being a Career Consultant for Executives is often misunderstood or romanticized or both. Sandra Bichl, founder of Career Angels and experienced international Career Consultant, decided to bring more transparency to her/our profession by sharing random days of her work in the form of a “diary” – the delay (sometimes of a year) ensures confidentiality. Below an example of how personal a job of Career Consultant can be.
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The job market according to LinkedIn globally: Summary of April 2021

Which European country had the biggest increase in the number of job ads in April? Where in Africa was the only decrease noted this month? What do executives have to say about the job market?

With the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Career Angels wanted to understand how it actually affected the job market. We started to observe and analyze the changes that it brought. We have summarized the job market according to LinkedIn globally looking at April 2021.

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