Hire Thoughts
Our tips and insights on jobs and hiring.
8 Benefits of a Positive Candidate Experience
A positive candidate experience is like a performance review of your brand and business - even before the candidate is hired. Learn why making the hiring process enjoyable, easy, and seamless pays off in the long-term. Gone are the days when job seekers felt like mere...
The New Era of Work: Embracing the Gig Economy
Let's break it down: Why might you want to consider getting into the gig economy as an employee? And how can employers benefit from tapping into this flexible, skilled, and innovative workforce? For some time now, I've felt compelled to address a monumental shift in...
Substance-abuse therapists need to wake up to their superpower
In our recent announcement of new mental-health therapist openings at Key Recovery and Life Skills Center, we added a PS note indicating that we’d soon be coming back with a blog post on “just how high the demand is for mental-health and substance-abuse-treatment...
Hear from Two CEOs Who Share the Inside Scoop on Work Culture Done Right
Work culture – a term often thrown around, yet not always clearly understood. What truly defines work culture? And what separates genuine culture from mere buzzwords? Let's hear from two CEOs to unravel the complexities and learn from their insights. Recent research...
AI and the job market: What really matters
I’ve known for a while now that I need to say something in this newsletter about AI. A switch flipped – in the business world and in popular culture – with the introduction of ChatGPT back in November, and all of a sudden the entire concept of AI moved from the...
How Does A Strong Company Culture Attract Talent & Create Workplace Positivity?
You're probably familiar with the business cliche that "culture eats strategy for breakfast"–meaning that a strong company culture is far more important than a fancy business plan. It's an essential ingredient for recruitment (and retention) success. The Great...
The Candidate Experience: How to Get it Right
The role of the candidate experience in hiring Whether you’re a job seeker or a recruiter, the hiring process can either leave you feeling elated, empowered, and excited or dejected, frustrated, and maybe even a little bitter. The problem is, when the experience lands...
Finding flow and a sense of play at – where else? –FlowPlay.
I know I’ve done a lot of slobbering lately over the Institute for Systems Biology as a quintessentially “cool” place to work. But cool comes in many forms – just like snowflakes! Certainly, FlowPlay can lay solid claim to a certain kind of tech-sector cool. They’re...
Cool recognizes cool: ISB taps Seattle Children’s leader for development role
We got a lot of really nice responses on our announcement of the new Director of Development position at the Institute for Systems Biology, a Seattle nonprofit that draws from a wide array of subject areas to come up with innovative solutions to massive health...
Wishing you a joyous holiday season!
It’s that time of year again — meaning, the very end of the year. The time when people of all faiths (or of no faith at all) try to give each other just a little more grace, a little more gratitude than we otherwise might. As of this moment, it seems that the very...