Tag: Talent Market insights

Talent Tip #167: Rizz meets Righteous: Finding the “Just Right” with Gen Z in the Workplace

November 19, 2024

Stephanie Keaveney

As the “middle child” on a five-person team at Talent Market, I get the best of both worlds—I equally enjoy my more senior colleagues’ Office Space jokes and my Gen Z colleagues’ daily contributions of slang and memes in the team chat. Working between these two groups has shown me just how different perspectives can bring out the best in a team.

But it’s not all smooth sailing. I’m often reminded of the story of Goldilocks and how it took…

Talent Tip #154: Advice for Graduates: The Talent Market Team Shares Our Biggest Lessons

May 23, 2023

In the midst of graduation season, the Talent Market team wanted to share some of the most important lessons we learned at the start of our careers. Embrace networking – Stephanie
When I was a fresh-faced graduate, I thought my network was about as useful as a screen door on a submarine. To me, networking was just a bunch of people handing out business cards and pretending to be interested in each other’s lives. But luckily, I had a…

Talent Tip #138: What HGTV Can Teach Us About the Market for Talent

September 21, 2021

Katelynn Barbosa

A couple of years ago, I was home sick with a bad sinus infection and chose to spend that time in the most productive way possible – reading seminal novels I had never gotten around to. Just kidding. I binged watching HGTV. If you haven’t watched HGTV before, the basic format of every HGTV show involves the following:

Act 1: Couple wants to buy house and meets with realtor to tell them what they are…

Talent Tip #48: Hiring Advice – Three Hours in a Canoe and the Most Interesting Man in the World

August 15, 2013

Three hours in a canoe. Sounds like a bad first date, a sub-par reality show, or a game risqué teenagers play, right?  In fact, it’s none of the above. It is actually a bit of hiring advice a client recently shared with me.

Here’s the very simple counsel: don’t hire anyone you wouldn’t want to spend three hours alone with in a canoe.

It’s pretty solid advice if you think about it. Work is full of difficulties: deadlines, miscommunications, competing…

Talent Tip #41: Work-Life Balance Policies, Part II: A Key to Attracting and Retaining Talent

January 22, 2013

As the fog of Auld Lang Syne and bubbly lifts, you may remember that last month in this space we offered up valuable advice about work-life balance from the good folks at Illinois Policy Institute. The underlying idea was that work-life balance policies help organizations attract and retain their most valuable asset – people.

This month we’re sharing eight more policies an organization should consider if it wants to maximize staff happiness and performance.

Once again, special thanks to Kristina Rasmussen, Executive Vice President of Illinois Policy…