At least half of the workforce is quiet quitting, according to a report published last week by Gallup. Weeks before, The Wall Street Journal reported on the viral spread of the topic on social media, especially TikTok, by Gen Z…
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I advocate, consult, speak, and write about recruiting talent, building HR capabilities, and developing excellent leaders, teams, and cultures. I am the CEO of Victor Assad Strategic HR Consulting and Managing Partner of InnovationOne. I have just released my first book, "Hack Recruiting: The Best of Empirical Research, Method and Process, and Digitization." It has received outstanding endorsement and 5-star ratings on Amazon.
We work with small, mid-size, and large organizations in a variety of industries such as medical devices, bio-tech, high tech, health care, manufacturing, semiconductors, mining, and retail.
Before consulting, I led HR for fast-growth, global businesses of Medtronic and Honeywell.
Companies are shifting their benefits strategies for 2023
Since the 2008 recession, corporations have tried to reduce costs and offer headline-grabbing perks with respect to benefits strategies. Not anymore. Companies are switching their benefits strategies for 2023 to attracting and retaining employees and helping them deal with costs…
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Don’t overreact to “quiet quitting”
After two years of burnout from Covid-19, Gen Z employees have begun to set boundaries, focus on a life outside of work, and have a better work-life balance. They call it “quiet quitting.” Their viewpoint also comes with less enthusiasm…
Which method or technology will help improve innovation in YOUR industry?
Companies have been using a variety of innovation methodologies and technologies to improve their innovation capabilities for more than a decade. Now, empirical research is identifying the ways that are the most effective. Is design thinking universally helpful to organizations…
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Better work-life balance tops list of seven job candidate preferences
Criteria, a research and talent success company, has published its 2022 Candidate Experience Report. It shows the top job candidate priorities for 2022, a year of the great resignation, the US’s lowest unemployment rate since 2019 of 3.5 percent (tying a…
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Three Strategies to Help Employees Fight Inflation
US inflation is at 9.1 percent, the highest level in over 40 years. While wage increases are also at their highest level in four decades — 4.8 percent according to a new Pearl Meyers survey — they are not high enough…
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How you can do better, more successful job interviews
US companies have doubled the number of interviews they conduct — despite inflation and worries about recession, as indicated by June 2022’s hiring numbers. The US Department of Labor recently reported that employers added 74,000 white-collar jobs in June 2022.…
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Use a people-orientated approach to implementing AI
It is essential to use a people-oriented approach to implementing AI to keep the human emotions and work front and center in the change. A people-centric approach involves the impacted employees and clients in the design of digitizing workflows and…
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Join me at AZ Tech’s MedTech Conference
Curious to learn all about the latest medical technology innovations being developed right here in Arizona? Join me at the @aztechcouncil’s 2022 MedTech Conference on Tuesday, June 21 to hear from an accomplished line-up of healthcare innovators and the businesses…
Virtual work accelerates what’s innovative!
When I worked for Medtronic businesses in Santa Rosa, CA, in 2012, implementing a remote work environment, we learned that requiring innovation workers to come into the office every day was unnecessary. In fact, we discovered that virtual teams and…