Boeing forecasts that airlines worldwide will need to hire 30,850 pilots annually for the next 20 years to keep up with travel demand. About 40% of those pilots will be needed in Asia-Pacific.
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Companies are looking beyond traditional job interviews to vet candidates, Sohini Sen writes. L'Oreal hosts a contest each year in which teams of college students show off their marketing skills, and marketing firm Sapient recently conducted a round of interviews on a commuter train.
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Workplace diversity often suffers when companies lay off employees, writes Alexandra Kalev of Tel Aviv University. Companies tend to base downsizing decisions on tenure and job position, and this often decreases minority and female representation, Kalev writes.
Employers could help working parents -- and promote gender equality -- by reimbursing child care expenses incurred during company events, Dawn Bovasso writes. "Most of these [reimbursement] policies were created when men were traveling, and women were home taking care of the kids," she notes.
Developers have created new apps to help close the gender pay gap as part of a two-month "hackathon." The seven apps, revealed at a recent White House event, include a salary-negotiation simulator and a program that can assess a user's personal pay gap.
The secret to top-ranked companies is flexible and meaningful work that sits within a larger community, writes S. Chris Edmonds. "[H]appy employees benefit from innovative approaches to support life outside of the workplace, like flexible scheduling, supportive and cooperative colleagues and leaders," and more, he writes.
