Are We Headed Back to the Office or Destined to Work Remotely Forever? It’s been a popular topic of conversation since, well, the start of the pandemic. While many thought offices would only close temporarily for a few weeks, some have shuttered for good. For many, fully remote workplaces are here to stay. In a recent ForceBrands LinkedIn poll, we asked our audience if their company was headed […] CATEGORIES ForceBrands PUBLISHED March 9, 2022 AUTHOR Rebecca Fryer
ForceBrands Partners with Naturally Network to goHIRE We’re excited to announce our newest goHIRE partner Naturally Network, joining our growing list of organizations tapping into our audience of consumer brand professionals. Together, we built a custom job board for the Naturally Network community. This platform allows Naturally Network member companies to find the best consumer brand talent, while harnessing the power of our technology to manage applicants […] CATEGORIES ForceBrands PUBLISHED March 4, 2022 AUTHOR Rebecca Fryer
Discover ForceBrands’ Newsletters: Subscribe to Be a Consumer Brand Insider As the leader in strategic hiring for consumer brands, we know a thing or two about industry trends, the state of the job market, and who’s making career moves. Whether you’re looking to level up in your career and are seeking some professional development resources, or you’re interested in sharpening your industry knowledge, we have […] CATEGORIES ForceBrands PUBLISHED March 1, 2022 AUTHOR Rebecca Fryer
Show Me the Money? Here’s What You Had to Say About Compensation Compensation. Always the first thing employees mention when asked about their reasons for staying at their job or leaving it. Many companies froze salaries and even reduced them during the pandemic. So we were wondering what’s happening with compensation two years after COVID-19 wreaked havoc on, well, just about everything. Our take from where we […] CATEGORIES ForceBrands PUBLISHED February 13, 2022 AUTHOR Rebecca Fryer
The Future of Recruiting and What Candidates Should Know What a long, strange trip it’s been. Amid a global pandemic, the job market is the most unusual it’s been in modern American history. According to a report from MissionSquare Research Institute, “We’re teetering on the brink of a public sector workforce crisis” as the Great Resignation continues to ripple throughout the U.S. economy. Hiring […] CATEGORIES ForceBrands PUBLISHED January 30, 2022 AUTHOR Rebecca Fryer
How Hiring Managers Can Rebound From the Great Resignation Today’s job market is unlike anything we’ve seen in recent years. Candidates are in the driver’s seat. Compensation is almost as important as workplace flexibility. Hiring managers must move quickly with top talent or otherwise risk losing them in the hiring process. It’s a lot, especially when you consider the fact that nearly 33 million Americans quit […] CATEGORIES ForceBrands PUBLISHED January 28, 2022 AUTHOR Rebecca Fryer
6 Inspiring DTC Brands to Watch in 2022 Direct-to-consumer (DTC) startups have thrived during the past decade. Fueled by venture capital funding, low competition, and abundant advertising opportunities, several companies leveraged this unique business model to achieve unicorn status. Today, the DTC space is more competitive than ever and investors are savvier – now relying on years of data intelligence to help inform […] CATEGORIES ForceBrands PUBLISHED January 24, 2022 AUTHOR Rebecca Fryer
Are Learning Organizations the Key to Keeping Talent? Here’s What You Had to Say For brands to catch fire, companies rely on talent, marketing, and technology as kindling. The pandemic was an accelerant — fast-tracking trends, compressing timelines, and requiring skills of the future, now. Keeping competency current and being proactively prepared for what’s next has never been more important. To build on Albert Einstein’s quote: “Once you stop […] CATEGORIES ForceBrands PUBLISHED January 23, 2022 AUTHOR Rebecca Fryer
Motivation at Work: Here’s How We’re Goal-Setting in 2022 We kicked off the year by asking our Start It Sunday community how they’re approaching work in the new year. Start It Sunday — our initiative designed to empower you to take charge of your career — is all about motivating, after all. More than half of our survey’s respondents (56 percent) reported that they’re […] CATEGORIES Career Advice PUBLISHED January 16, 2022 AUTHOR Rebecca Fryer
Here’s What You Had to Say About DEI at Work Diversity. Equity. Inclusion. Meaningful mandate or empty words? In a series of polls on ForceBrands’ LinkedIn page, we set out to learn how employers are responding to the social justice events of the past few years and what actions they’re taking to build more inclusive workforces. DEI cannot be an afterthought for today’s organizations — it […] CATEGORIES ForceBrands PUBLISHED January 9, 2022 AUTHOR Rebecca Fryer
Behind the Scenes of The Great Reshuffle The Great Reshuffle, as coined by LinkedIn editors, has disrupted the workforce in unforeseen ways. The pandemic has put candidates in the driver’s seat of the job market and according to LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslanksy, it’s “unlike anything we’ve seen in the history of work.” So who exactly are these candidates and why are they motivated […] CATEGORIES ForceBrands PUBLISHED January 7, 2022 AUTHOR Rebecca Fryer
Top HR Trends of 2022 The past two years have arguably been some of the most challenging ones that HR professionals have ever faced. This means that going into 2022, new trends will permeate how we think about people management. Simply put, the industry as we know it is evolving. HR professionals will have no choice but to change how […] CATEGORIES ForceBrands PUBLISHED December 26, 2021 AUTHOR ForceBrands