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Why Referrals Might Be Hurting Your Diversity Efforts (and What You Can Do to Change That)

Linkedin Talent Blog

A recent report from PayScale shows that job referrals can bring more engaged employees into your company, but tend to benefit white men a lot more than women or people of color. During a four month period in 2017, PayScale surveyed 53,000 workers to find out whether they got their job through a referral.

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Let’s Be Honest About Diversity: Age Matters Too

TalentCulture

The median age in the workforce is 42 years old; the average age in the tech industry, according to a survey by Payscale , ranged from 28 to 31 at major tech companies, even younger at a few outliers. Years of experience, plenty of talent, completely obsolete,” summed up Noam Scheiber in an article for the New Republic.

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Top Employee Engagement Tools (Detailed Comparison)

Vantage Circle

It integrates with multiple third party applications for a seamless experience. The question bank consisting over 120 customizable questions helps gather employee experience and promotes better employee engagement. Bose, Trivago, Dyson, Wetransfer, PayScale, Crocs, Fujitsu. Link: [link]. Visit Website. Employee Pulse survey.

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How to Attract and Retain Talent in a Job-Hopping Market

Eightfold

Indeed, a New York Fed report shows that lower-income workers are job-hopping at rates not seen since 2014. By 2014, the number had climbed to more than four and a half years. . For instance, roles should still offer employers a clear view of the employee as a professional, Gina Belli at Payscale says.

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PayScale Gender Report Reveals Female Software Engineers Get Paid 12% Less

Compensation Today

The PayScale Women at Work survey indicates that less than 5 percent of all software architects are women. The proverbial fan was hit when Julia Ann Horvath , a respected software engineer at GitHub left the company in 2014 citing “a hostile work environment and harassment” while employed at the startup. Get a PayScale demo now!

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The Free Trap: Why Free Data Isn't All It's Cracked Up To Be

Compensation Today

Kari Van Hoof, CCP, PayScale Compensation Professional The internet is a great and wondrous thing, where with just a few key word searches, you can find anything and everything, including pay data. Consider jobs in the oil and gas industry, where pay was hot from 2011 into 2014 but then turned downward in 2015 as oil prices dropped.

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The Free Trap: Why Free Data Isn't All It's Cracked Up To Be

Compensation Today

Kari Van Hoof, CCP, PayScale Compensation Professional The internet is a great and wondrous thing, where with just a few key word searches, you can find anything and everything, including pay data. Consider jobs in the oil and gas industry, where pay was hot from 2011 into 2014 but then turned downward in 2015 as oil prices dropped.

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