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One of the great things about job relevant reference feedback reports that deliver insights across specific soft skills areas, is that you can use that information to hone each new hire’s onboarding and training programs. According to the report, organizations most commonly offer learning and development resources (65%) and job shadowing (45%) to help new hires integrate into their new jobs. Having more detailed data about employees puts organizations in a better position to improve employee experience, and it also helps with tailoring learning and development programs to boost succession management and individual’s career development opportunities. Make onboarding of new employees highly targeted; continually survey employees and their supervisors to spot problems and gain actionable feedback; and offer workers opportunities to learn new skills (hard and soft) to succeed in the digital world.

SkillSurvey clients use scientifically vetted job-specific surveys to collect feedback from a candidate’s former peers and managers for an unbiased view of past performance—a key predictor of future success. also provide job seekers with another way to present the full range of their knowledge, skills, and abilities, which the Talent Board has found can increase a candidate’s relationship with a potential employer. CandE Award winners are closing the feedback loop—asking candidates for feedback throughout the hiring journey and offering feedback as well. We want every candidate walking away from their experience feeling like they matter, whether they get the job or not,” said Stacy Van Meter, VP Talent Acquisition, Deluxe Equitable hiring will be a priority in 2021

About half (48%) of 275 HR professionals say a sizeable majority of employees work remote according to a new report Understanding and Adapting to Today’s Massive Transformation of Work published by the HR Research Institute and SkillSurvey. Only 8% of respondents say they don’t have any remote workers – versus more than a quarter (28%) who said this was true before the pandemic. A huge majority, 90%, said they intended to permit remote employees to continue working at home – at least some of the time according to a Gartner poll conducted at the end of 2020. Roughly half of the HR professionals surveyed (46%) said employee engagement declined a little or a lot as a result of COVID-19.

Hiring for soft skills will be an essential tactic for recruiting qualified candidates from any industry, as soft skills reflect more on an individual’s personality, character and behavioral traits — things that make for a good employee — than on measurable hard skills. Don’t let the inclusivity efforts end after a job offer is accepted if you want to continue attracting and retaining a diverse employee base. While an established employer brand is important to customers who want to ensure they’ll be taken care of and delivered quality products or services, employees rely on employer brand when it comes to where they apply for roles. Global Workplace Analytics predicts that 25-30% of the workforce will continue to work remotely multiple days a week after the pandemic, and research from Slack shows that only 12% of former office workers would prefer working from the office all the time.