According to three compensation surveys, US employers are planning slightly smaller pay raises in 2025, between 3.5 percent to 4.1 percent, which is below the average 4.1 percent salary increase given in 2024, and the 4.5 percent increase in 2023…
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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.
HR tech is getting played. Learn how to prevent it.
As reported in HR Executive, a January 2023 Resume Builder survey of 1,250 Americans found that 35 percent have lied in the hiring process, and 75 percent said they had secured a job using an application that misrepresented their education, years of…
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Intelligent recruiting doesn’t depend on an MEI system
Tech sector leaders last month advocated the use of merit, excellence, and intelligence (MEI) as their recruiting strategy to hire the best and smartest talent. At the same time, some decried diversity, equity, and inclusion strategies as somehow requiring suboptimum…
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SHRM Drops the “E” in Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Causing Uproar
Johnny Taylor, President and CEO of the Society of Human Resource Management, shocked and upset much of the human resources world last week by dropping the equity in Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion. Taylor wrote, “We're going to lead with inclusion,…
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Importance of psychological safety and intellectual honesty for high performing innovation teams
Readers of this column know I frequently encourage managers, above all else, to build trust among their teams and with their performance management systems in order to achieve high performance and innovation. (As one of my readers told me, “You…
Easy solution for allowing employees to unplug while on vacation
The July 4th holiday traditionally marks the halfway point of summer (summer break from school for the kids) and is a time of family picnics, BBQs, and fireworks celebrating our Independence as a nation. Sadly, The new research from growth…
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Gallup discovered that managers who inspire their workers are increasingly urgent.
Gallup released its State of the Global Workforce 2024 report last week and found that employees are at their highest level of engagement, at 23 percent. Unfortunately, 62 percent of the workforce is unengaged, just doing what they need to…
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The mess in recruiting: bias, robo-bots, bot booby traps, and how to fix it
Warning to recruiters: Your world is becoming a mess. First, some AI-digital screening software are being accused of discriminating against candidates based on their race, disability, and other factors. Second, job applicants are using ChatGPT and other software to re-write…
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Don’t treat your B-team employees as second best
We live in an era of long-term labor shortages. The much-ballyhooed AI will not alleviate these shortages quickly, even for highly repetitive work. While I’m enthusiastic about digitization, I also know is is often expensive, usually overrated, and has long…
Performance management remains in the doldrums. Seven steps to improve it
Gallup reported this month that only 20 percent of Chief Human Resources Officers (CHROs) from Fortune 500 companies believe that their performance management systems inspire employees to improve performance. But there’s worse news yet. Only two percent of CHROs believe…
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