How communication can unearth your team's potential | Why you should remember candidates you don't hire | How to respond when asked about your salary history
Top leaders communicate deeply with their team so they can understand the root of problems that arise and have the ability to spot emerging top talent as well as those who need more training, writes Gordon Tredgold. "Great leaders know that continuous improvement is essential for success," Tredgold writes.
Since most job applicants won't get hired, employers should treat candidates fairly and keep communications open, says Kevin Grossman of the Talent Board. Everything about the recruiting process affects candidates' experience, and if it's positive, they'll refer others and apply again themselves, Grossman notes.
Federal law permits a prospective employer to ask job applicants about their current salaries, but there are 22 states and a number of cities where local laws prohibit salary history questions. Here is some advice on how job candidates can answer the question when it is permitted.
Searchlight.ai has a tool that analyzes employees after they are hired, providing "quality of hire" insights for management by evaluating the new person's self-assessment, third-party references, job interviews and onboarding procedures. "We don't warn the employer that an employee is a poor fit, but rather help reveal signs and insights that they can identify how well an employee is acclimating or not," says Searchlight.ai CEO Kerry Wang.
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The job listing website Indeed released its list of the top jobs in 2022, and registered nurse took the No. 1 position with an average base salary of $84,074 and job posting growth of 34% from 2019 to 2022. Also in the top 10 are site reliability engineer, pharmacist, software engineer and solar consultant.
Decision fatigue from high inflation, the pandemic and other stressful events is causing some people to feel alone and overwhelmed and to stop making decisions altogether, says licensed clinical social worker Amy Kaplan says. Kaplan advises focusing on what we can control, creating a list of priorities and taking tasks one step at a time.
Rasmus Kofoed and Søren Ledet from Geranium (David M. Benett/Getty Images)
Atomix, Le Bernardin and SingleThread are the three US restaurants that cracked this year's World's 50 Best Restaurants list. It probably won't surprise you to learn Italy has six restaurants on the list or that a restaurant in Copenhagen took the No. 1 spot. At Geranium, this year's top restaurant, the menu is $440 per person.
