If you’re hiring, you may have suddenly found yourself drowning in piles of resumes from primarily unqualified applicants. At the same time, finding and engaging with your top-tier candidates may be particularly challenging. Complicating an already confusing situation, our unpredictable economy may make it harder for you to commit to long-term plans. So how do…
There’s a Climate Role for Everyone ”Working on climate” used to be reserved for highly technical roles (think data or environmental scientists). But that’s no longer the case. Today, companies of all kinds need skills across every function, within every industry. This is due not only to the global climate crisis, but also to changes in policy and public…
Employees want to work for purpose-driven companies that care about their people and the planet. Consumers vote with their dollars by seeking out ethical, sustainable brands. Increasingly, the corporate world is leaving behind entrenched unsustainable business practices and instead using business as a force for good. Industry led to many of the world’s most intractable…
What if your job – work you do for a living – was additive to your life, not a drain? How would your sense of fulfillment, value and connection impact the ways you show up in the rest of your life? Most likely, this happiness created through work would ripple out into your relationships with…
What does Earth Day mean to you now, as compared to the first year you learned about it? Earth Day was born of a collaboration between government and citizens circa 1969, about the time the Nixon administration established the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Clean Air Act after New York had created the nation’s first…
As a woman-owned business that partners with quickly-scaling tech companies to help them hire strong teams, Creative Alignments is well aware of the fact that barely 25% of workers in the technology sector are women. Yes, this is up from 8% in 1970, but there is a lot of progress yet to make, especially when…
Human nature drives us to search for purpose in life. We long for a sense of direction and fulfillment. Given that we spend a large majority of our lives working, combined with how much help the world needs right now, millions of people are acting on this hard-wired human pursuit for impact by seeking careers that align…
What would you think of automatically rejecting one-third of your job applicants before reviewing them? Kind of like tossing out a third of your groceries before even getting them home from the store. Unfortunately, this is what many employers do when they reject candidates based solely on their age, or perceived age. Age discrimination occurs…
This article was first published on Inc.com and was written by Peggy Shell, CEO of Creative Alignments. You may have experienced someone trying to fake their way through an interview. Perhaps they embellished skills and education, provided family members as references, or even faked a drug test. But have you heard about truly fake candidates? The phenomenon is…
Have you heard of fraudsters posing as real employers in order to lure unsuspecting candidates in to divulge sensitive data or become useful pawns in a larger scheme? This is a real thing, and so are the financial and reputational losses for both employers and job seekers. It’s not a new phenomenon, but the Covid…
