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The First Consumer Privacy Law in the U.S. Is Coming: Are You Ready?

Industry Trends

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) is a new privacy regulation that will go into effect on January 1, 2020, and it is the first law in the United States that will closely align with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The CCPA seek ...

The future of recruitment is an ecosystem of great partners

Industry Trends

It’s simply a myth that a single technology provider can provide the essential tools to enable employers to find and win talent.There is no single technology provider that enables employers to find talent, deliver a differentiated candidate exp ...

The Strategic Role of IT in HR

Industry Trends

Today’s most successful enterprises are fueled by tech-enabled business processes. However according to a recent report by Gartner, inadequate talent management will cause 60%of digital transformation failures over the next decade. As digital t ...

E-recruitment Congress session to focus on replicating consumer experience for candidates

Industry Trends

What do candidates want? That question troubles employers around the world as they struggle to stave off crippling talent shortages amid the lowest unemployment rates seen in decades. However, unlike previous economic expansions, the cu ...

Observations from IAPP’s Global Privacy Summit 2019

Industry Trends

Earlier this month, the four-day Global Privacy Summit 2019 delivered a breadth of content spotlighting the big picture of data privacy and protection to more than 3,600 privacy professionals in Washington, D.C. Hosted by the International Associati ...

Businesses See Career Sites as Key to Better Candidate Experience

Industry Trends

When businesses need to drum up sales, they advertise. From far-reaching billboards to targeted email blasts and everything in between, businesses use ads to entice people to visit their websites, and brick-and-mortar locations. With re ...

Five Ways Recruiters Can Attract Gen Z

Industry Trends

Roughly 61 million Gen Zers are about to graduate college and enter the U.S. workforce. They will drastically change the way recruiting is done. Generation Z, usually defined as people born starting in 1997, accounts for more than 86 million people i ...

The Class of 2019 Report

Industry Trends

Members of Gen Z, anyone born from 1997 onward according to Pew Research Center, are true digital natives: growing up with the internet, social media and smartphones from a very early age. As the oldest among this rising generation are just turning 2 ...

Candidates' Expectations Are Changing

Industry Trends

In an age when people expect everything to be fast and easy— thanks to one-click shopping, mobile streaming from virtually anywhere and the automation of just about everything — employers need to differentiate themselves by overhauling wh ...

Navigating HR and Recruitment During Mergers and Acquisitions

Industry Trends

2018 was a big year for mergers and acquisitions (M&A), with the value of global M&A deals hitting $3.9 trillion and the fruition of high-profile deals including AT&T purchasing Time Warner, Dr Pepper Snapple Group merging with Keurig Gre ...

Three Things Uncovered at the UNLEASH Conference & Expo in London

Industry Trends

There’s one thing that employers, regardless of their size, industry and location have in common – they are on the hook for attracting and retaining talented employees to get the job done, whatever that may be. If they fail to do so, it&r ...

The Myths & Realities of the U.S. Gig Economy

Industry Trends

November 30, 2018

The “gig economy,” “on-demand economy” and “contingent workforce” consist of people taking short-term jobs instead of open-ended full- or part-time employment, and the participants fall into four categories: indepe ...