How do highly successful people use technology? | How to gain customers with optimized website content | Use software to cut workforce management costs
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How do highly successful people use technology? Job application-building software ResumeLab put together data from 1,000 successful professionals on their technology use. Interesting findings include more laptop users, more iPhone users, a low amount of time spent on social media per day and Facebook being the most-used social media platforms. Forbes (12/19)
Turn website visitors into loyal customers by optimizing content with five techniques, including customer analysis, landing-page optimization, social media outreach and inclusion of interactive quizzes. In addition, Mark Quadros recommends evaluating these efforts with usability testing and A/B testing. Business 2 Community (12/18)
Hire Smart
Use software to cut workforce management costs With labor costs increasing, it's important to focus on software and technology to help keep the management expenses of running your team at a minimum, writes Rob Press, content marketing manager at Deputy. Use tools to monitor key performance indicators, standardize typical human resources processes and use machine learning to set better schedules, Press recommends. Chain Store Age (12/19)Talent acquisition is constant in business today With unemployment low and employee turnover rates high, the amount of time and cost of resources to find new talent is constantly rising, says Eightfold.ai CEO Ashutosh Garg. One company boosting their recruitment is Bank of America using career and leadership development programs to attract talent. Human Resource Executive (12/19)
Poll
Poll results: Have you put your job search on hold for the holidays? There are still plenty of networking possibilities in December, even if they aren't formal events, in addition to time to work on your resume in anticipation of the January hiring uptick. This month, are you staying in the game or taking a needed break from job searching? New poll question on Monday.
I'm actively looking
54.62%
I'll ramp up in January
30.00%
I'm networking
15.38%
The Landscape
Gartner: The cost of luring talent from competitors is dropping Employers offered 13% pay increases to lure talent from competitors during the third quarter, a decline from the average of 15%, according to a report from Gartner. The same report shows that one-third of employees in the US are seeking new work. HR Dive (12/16)Millennials have more side jobs compared to other generations Millennials are being called the "side hustle generation," with about 50% of them relying on a side gig to make ends meet, according to a Bankrate survey. Side jobs allow millennials to find passion outside their entry level career, earn more experience to get ahead and make more money to offset financial burdens, writes Camila Vallejo. The Seattle Times (tiered subscription model) (12/19)
It's not just humans who struggle to maintain a fun and healthy work/life balance, according to new study published in the journal Mammal Research. A team of researchers in Russia followed the daily exploits of a female tiger for the eight months surrounding the birth of her cubs and found the tigress enjoyed much less free time and me time after the cubs were born. PhysOrg (12/19)
Oh, listen a lot and talk less. You can't learn anything when you're talking.
