Hiring Advice
Should You Offer Candidate Relocation Assistance or a Signing Bonus?
When an employer negotiates hiring terms with a job candidate from outside the organization’s city or market, a question that often arises is whether to offer candidate relocation assistance or a signing bonus, which can also serve as a relocation stipend. While all methods don’t work the same way, each is common and quite successful in attracting, incentivizing, and onboarding top…
The Power of Building a Multigenerational Professional Network
People in every generation have a unique take on the world, with vast perspectives to offer colleagues and teams. It’s beneficial for today’s professionals to value and welcome all contributors, and to experience the power of building a multigenerational professional network. After all, five generations are now working side-by-side, based on U.S. workforce demographics. Over…
Hiring the Right People: A Little Luck and a Lot of Strategy
You don’t have to rely solely (or even mostly) on luck to build a strong team. In talent recruiting, successful hiring involves a little luck and a lot of strategy. Strategy is about being prepared, building connections, and knowing where to look for potential candidates. Using a tried-and-true hiring strategy nearly always brings good fortune. Speaking of luck and good fortune,…
Andy Decker included in Associated Press News Article
Andy Decker, CEO of national recruiting firm Goodwin Recruiting, had an interview with the Associated Press early last week. The conversation took place just before the February jobs report came out, and he shared his feedback on what we were seeing on the ground in recruiting. In a LinkedIn post, Decker noted: “At the time,…
5 Things to Look for in an Executive Search Firm
When it’s time to onboard a new executive or member of the C-suite, organizations turn to executive search firms for good reasons. Chief among their reasons is to avoid the cost of a delayed hire, or worse, the risk of hiring the wrong person. Both can take a lasting toll on operations and business continuity. …
True Rate of Unemployment (TRU): What Hiring Managers Should Know
When hiring managers hear that unemployment is low, it’s easy to assume the labor market is strong and hiring should be easy. But the reality is much more nuanced and complex, prompting the need to rethink unemployment and the true labor market. Understanding the complexity can give you a competitive edge in talent recruitment and hiring. This article dives…
Sari Gillen included in WBUR’s On Point Podcast (Boston’s NPR)
Sari Gillen, a Houston-based healthcare recruiter at Goodwin Recruiting, says it’s a great time to be a nurse or basically any kind of health care worker looking for a job. Catch her insights from the podcast On Point with Meghna Chakrabarti below: SARI GILLEN: If they’re on LinkedIn especially, the nurses are likely receiving at…
How to Attract Passive Talent for Your Key Roles
Whether the job market is slowing, growing, or staying steady, the labor market is consistently tight in many industries, such as healthcare, elder care, technology, transportation and logistics, skilled manufacturing, skilled trades, and other essential sectors. Even in hospitality (restaurants, hotels, tourism), skilled professionals and top quality candidates are hard to find. How do you attract the best…
Personalization Is Invaluable in Recruiting, Especially in an AI World
Hiring managers and talent recruiters live and work in a world of templates, buzzing inboxes, auto-responses, and even calendars that populate themselves. In my work as a talent recruiter, serving clients and job candidates across multiple industries, I’ve learned that while technology can streamline many important functions, it doesn’t connect all the dots in the…
Whether or Not to Include Salaries in Job Postings
Goodwin Recruiting has been helping companies identify, attract, and onboard top talent for over 25 years. When performing this specialized work for clients, we manage all aspects of a talent search, with a few exceptions. Here is one of those exceptions. While we often assist clients in developing or honing job ads, we do not…
