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. Bloomberg (7/25)
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Recruiting & Retention
Companies explore alternative interviewing tactics 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. LiveMint.com (India) (7/24)
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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. Fortune (7/23)
Technology
New apps tackle gender pay gap 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 Wall Street Journal (tiered subscription model) (7/19)
The HR Leader
What makes a company great to work for? 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. SmartBrief/Leadership (7/26)
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