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9 Things to Do to Find Your Job Faster

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Searching for jobs hiring near me is never “fun.” (“No, duh, Einstein!” we hear you say.) But it needn’t be a slog, a bear, an awful experience. In fact, there are definite steps you can take to make it go faster. Please note that we said “faster,” not “fast.” A job hunt probably will take …

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Why Onboarding Remote Contact Center Agents Has to Be Practically Perfect

By Hire Dynamics

Today, most job candidates who can perform their jobs remotely want to perform those jobs remotely. This extends to contact center agents, of course: you will attract more of them to your positions if you offer remote work. But once hired, you also will have to onboard and train them remotely. That can be problematic, …

Must-Have Workflow and Productivity Contact Center Tools for 2022 and Beyond

By Hire Dynamics

Many businesses start their fiscal new year on July 1. Which is coming up fast. If this is the case for your contact center, Hire Dynamics’ Contact Center Advisory Council has created a short list of the newest tools – and trends – it’s determined will be of best use for contact center operations in …

April 2022 Logistics Market Snapshot

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Is a freight recession in our (near) future? Warehousing hit a record in March, and transportation prices remain high. Yet transportation capacity is still contracting. While a contraction in the transportation market doesn’t mean a freight recession is coming, it’s still a possibility. Our April 2022 Logistics Market Snapshot explains. Read the full report here. …

April 2022 Jobs Report

By Hire Dynamics

The good news in the April jobs report is that the U.S. economy is extremely close to its pre-pandemic levels. Yet, because there are 11.5 million job openings and only 5.9 million unemployed people, hiring and retaining a workforce will remain challenging. Our 2022 Voice of the Blue-Collar Worker survey has found how candidates look …

Remote, Onsite, or Hybrid for Contact Center Agents?

By Hire Dynamics

This appears to be the question in the contact center business sector today! After all, more than one-third of the U.S. workforce whose work could be performed fully remote are saying they really, truly, absolutely prefer fully-remote work. (The actual stats: 37 percent said they prefer fully remote, while 54 percent said they prefer hybrid/onsite.) …

Advancing in Your Contact Center Career

By Hire Dynamics

If the idea of working in a contact/call center gives you the willies, you’re behind the times: call center jobs and even careers can be highly rewarding, both financially and emotionally. Call centers today, in other words, are not your grandparents’ call centers. Call centers have evolved into high-technology “contact centers.” A bit of history: …

Why Logistics and Supply Chain are the “It” Careers of the 2020s

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If you want to work in a business sector that most likely will see 11 percent growth EACH year for the next five years, then logistics/supply chain is the business sector to explore. Because most businesses are ecstatic when they grow five percent a year, a growth rate of 11 percent a year for a …

Global Retailer Has Difficulty Finding Logistics Talent For Short-Term Assignments During Peak Season

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If you run a logistics operation, what do you think would happen if you lowered your background check and education requirements when recruiting talent for your distribution center/warehouse? One of our clients did just that: read about their results in this case study. Click here to view the case study.   Higher dynamics works with …

Upping Your Job Search Game in 2022

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Right now, as we’ve moved from winter to spring and anticipate the warmth of summer, the job search pretty much is a good one for candidates: Employers added 455,000 jobs in March (according to the payroll services firm ADP), about 20,000 fewer than the number added in February. This means more than 1.5 million jobs …

March 2022 Jobs Report

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The Bureau of Labor Statistics’ March Job Report showed some great news: the U.S. economy is “this close” to recovering from the pandemic, the fastest ever! Yet staffing challenges remain: employers may want to consider prioritizing hiring talent from nontraditional talent pools. We discuss this and other recruiting strategies in this March 2022 Workforce Insights. …