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Articles by Alison Hadden
No Time to Waste: 31. Media Mogul Katie Couric
There’s so much behind the 10,000 kilowatt smile of media mogul Katie Couric. More than just sunshine, Katie’s known tragedy and loss in her personal life and gained wisdom in hindsight from those experiences. After her first husband passed away from colorectal cancer, Katie founded Stand Up to Cancer which has since raised over $600M for cancer research. We talked about the need for us to bring honest conversation about mortality into the light, and the comfort it could bring to people if we did.
How your company can support employees’ physical and mental wellbeing
Did you know Alison Hadden, the author of this piece, is speaking at TNW2020 this year? Their session will explore how using tech can help us navigate our newfound death anxiety. As a busy executive who seeks to keep my own personal health and wellness a top priority, especially since my cancer diagnosis last year, working for a company that supports these goals makes it so much easier to maintain this kind of lifestyle.
Does the Gender Pay Gap Still Exist?
Equal pay for equal work is top of mind for many employers. The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act was signed into law in 2009, but that doesn’t mean that the gender pay gap disappeared entirely. Our newest Economic Research Report, Demystifying the Gender Pay Gap, shows that the disparity between men and women’s pay still exists. Our research takes a look at hundreds of thousands of salary reports on Glassdoor shared by employees in the U.S., UK, Australia, Germany and France.
Best Places to Work Winners Share Secrets
When Glassdoor announced the 2016 Best Places to Work list, we highlighted tips from winning companies on how to become a better place to work. We found common themes in their advice, which were also present among the top companies on four lists — U.S. Large, U.S. SMB, UK and Canada.
How VMware Recruits and Retains Military Veterans
While serving as a military police sergeant for the U.S. Army, Aaron Dumbrow was accustomed to higher-level officers paying attention to his reports from the field. When he entered the IT field after medical retirement from the Army, Dumbrow wasn’t sure his voice would continue to be heard in the same way.
3 Tips to Improve Your Interview Process
In recent years, tech companies like Google and Facebook have become notorious for difficult job interviews. Companies of all sizes and across many industries have followed suit, using challenging interviews to find and hire the best candidates. Brainteasers, business problems, behavioral questions and coding tests are routinely used to identify candidates best fit for positions. But are more difficult job interviews helping or hurting companies in their hunt for the best talent?
Adding Authenticity to Your Career Site
Creating consistency across all of your organization’s career platforms is no easy task. But it can greatly enhance and amplify the employer brand you’ve worked so hard to establish and nurture. When a job candidate sees your mission statement and then encounters a company rating or review that backs it up—Click!—you build serious trust between employer and job seeker.
Why Your Career Site Isn’t Working
You know the phrase, “It’s not you. It’s me?” Well it may be time to keep this in mind if you find your employer brand has low awareness or you’re not getting the candidate pipeline you hoped. I know, not exactly what you wanted to hear. The good news is that 89% of job seekers say they find the employer perspective important when researching jobs and companies, according to a new survey out from Glassdoor today.
How to Attract and Retain Talent in Industries with High Turnover
Retaining talent in niche industries like hospitality and senior services takes work. Unlike the tech industry, these organizations don’t have a Google-sized budget, and the nature of the job presents different challenges. Dwayne Clark, founder and CEO at Aegis Living, saw a distinction visiting Google’s campus about nine months ago, and realized his industry had a special challenge when it came to retaining talent.
7 Things Employers Should Know About Glassdoor
When we began, Glassdoor was a controversial website that made CEOs, HR professionals, marketers and communications people feel uncomfortable. This level of workplace transparency was new and with the site’s debut it brought to light what was working well at companies and what needed to be improved.
Glassdoor's Highest Rated CEOs in 2015
Today, Glassdoor released our annual report on the Highest Rated CEOs, now in five categories including U.S. large, U.S. SMB, UK, Canada and Germany. This report is designed to honor CEOs who have truly gained the trust and admiration of their employees and are proven leaders in their fields. But why does a top CEOs report matter to your HR department?
3 Great Examples of Employee Engagement
As a marketer at Glassdoor, I am often asked, “How do I get my employees to join the conversation on Glassdoor?”. Employers: if you’re looking for ways to engage your employees, here are three companies who are doing it well, plus tips to increase your rating and create an army of internal brand ambassadors. We know it can be tough to reach out and engage all of your employees – especially if you have 1,000+.
Why Investing in Your Culture is Worth It
Is investing in your company culture worth it? Employee engagement programs can be tough to measure, but, ultimately, investments in your company culture and employer brand lead to recruiting cost and time savings, higher candidate quality, upped productivity levels and increased retention rates. The proof is in the pudding. By investing in its employer brand and company culture initiatives, Expedia, Inc. lowered its cost-per-hire to $1,700, 50% below than the national CPH average.
Glassdoor Breaks Out Contingent Employee Reviews
Employee feedback shapes an organization and is what candidates are in search of when considering one company over another. The more representative the information is of the candidate’s potential role, the more valuable the information becomes. Full-time employees and contractors, for example, typically have very different experiences and the feedback left by a full-time employee may not be representative of what a contractor could expect at the same company.
The Top 10 Things Recruiters Must Have with Them
I love hitting the road in my RV. I like being able to stop when I want to enjoy the view at a scenic overlook or just sit and talk around a camp fire at night. However, the time I forgot to fill the LP tank and so didn’t have heat on a 20-degree night? Not a trip highlight. We’ve all forgotten something on a trip – whether it was a passport, sunscreen or cell phone charger. Similarly, in recruiting, there are also essential items we can’t forget to pack.
How Dutch Employers Can Use Glassdoor
Glassdoor is proud to announce the debut of its free Dutch language site, iOS app and Android app. Many Dutch job seekers and employees have already caught on to the value of Glassdoor – there are more than 11,000 company reviews, salary reports, workplace photos and more for 3,000 Netherlands employers – so what can employers in the Netherlands do to get involved in these very active conversations about their companies?
Why You're Missing Great Job Candidates
If you’re a recruiter that’s measured on speed to fill open positions, then you probably already know that you’re in a game that puts a higher price on quantity and not as much on candidate quality. You may also be facing a double-edged sword when your hiring managers are complaining that the candidates you deliver don’t really measure up for the role at hand. A dangerous path as it can have your peers’ trust in you and your capabilities diminish over time if you can’t turn things around.
How to Find the Good in Bad Reviews
Are bad reviews bad? Getting constructive criticism can sometimes sting. Your immediate reaction may be to get defensive and even offended, but we have found that bad reviews can be good for business. Utilize reviews to make your company a better place and use your response as a powerful recruiting advantage. Stay calm, take a deep breath and find the good in bad reviews. No one is perfect and no company is perfect.
Are Recruiters Responsible for Quality of Hire?
Traditionally, recruiters have been measured on quantity —how many applicants they attract and how much time they take to fill open positions. But the value of a good recruiter goes far beyond these basic metrics. Recruiters aren’t valuable because they can bring in hundreds of resumes for a specific position, because they can conduct numerous interviews in a week or get a warm body behind a desk in a matter of weeks or months.
Introducing Glassdoor's Self-Serve Job Posting Solution
Whether you’re a small business trying recruit or hiring manager with a growing team at a large corporation, you need an easy-to-use tool to help you find great candidates – and do so, all within your recruiting budget. This week Glassdoor officially introduces our self-serve job posting solution for hiring managers looking to post up to five open positions. Provided below are three reasons that we think are pretty compelling when it comes to using Glassdoor to recruit.
Glassdoor Localized Profiles Help International Recruiting
In a highly competitive global jobs market, recruiters want every edge they can get to hire great people quickly and within budget. And as any great recruiter knows, it’s about telling a personalized story in the places where you can reach top candidates.
Why Are Companies Taking Longer to Fill Positions?
Because of the ongoing talent crunch, did you know it now takes 52 days on average to fill a vacant position in the US at a cost of almost 4,000 per hire? Driven by increased competition for talent and a shortage of critical skills, companies in the US are ramping talent acquisition spending, according to Bersin by Deloitte’s new Talent Acquisition Factbook 2015—Benchmarks and Trends in Spending, Staffing and Key Recruiting Metrics.
3 Ways Workplace Transparency Affects Employers
How does “salary transparency” affect your hiring efforts and employee productivity? These are just some of the questions Glassdoor Chief Economist Dr. Andrew Chamberlain set out to explore in the latest Glassdoor Research report “Is Salary Transparency More Than a Trend?. The report explores lessons from various economic literature on how workplace transparency affects labor markets. We dug into this report to understand just how workplace transparency impacts and benefits employers.
Glassdoor Introduces Pledges & Certifications for Employers
Today, the White House is “upskilling” America with a summit focused on finding ways to help workers develop new skills that can help them move into higher paying, more senior roles. Glassdoor CEO Robert Hohman is in attendance along with Vice President Biden, Secretary of Labor Tom Perez, Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.
Your Comprehensive #GDRoadshow Recap
During our recent Glassdoor Best Places to Work Roadshow, over 4,000 talent acquisition professionals, HR teams and marketers gathered around the globe for eight in-person events and one virtual live stream from San Francisco, networking over coffee and bacon while learning what it takes to become a Best Place to Work. Viewers and attendees took to Twitter to join the conversation, leaving comments like, “Don’t ignore the conversation, engagement is key.
Glassdoor for Dating: Helping people everywhere find love
Much like Glassdoor helps employers recruit and retain top talent at 30% lower cost-per-hire, today we’re introducing Glassdoor for Dating, helping you improve your own personal brand to find someone to love, transparently and efficiently. Get your free singles account today and set up a profile, revealing some of your best personal attributes. Then, invite your exes to share their own take on what it’s really like to be your significant other.
5 Reasons Your Job Postings Aren't Working
Today’s candidates are incredibly difficult to source. Traditional job boards focus on a “post and pray” strategy, where candidates have to search to find you and there’s no targeting in place. In contrast, today’s job boards are all about posting with a purpose, letting you run targeted job campaigns and influence candidates who may be unaware of your employer brand. Investing in job ads is worth it. First, job ads make candidates aware of open positions at your company.
New Feature From Glassdoor: Company Updates
Today, Glassdoor is proud to introduce another FREE tool, which makes it easier for employers to share real-time social messages with job seekers who follow them on Glassdoor. Company Updates, in beta to select employers prior today, is proving to be a valuable social recruiting tool for companies such as Salesforce, Groupon, Nestle Purina PetCare, Progressive Insurance and The Home Depot.
5 Recruiting Challenges for 2015
Recruiting has changed — dramatically. Finding talented needles in a haystack is becoming harder and harder. So how do you find quality talent today and stand out from the competition? What analytics should you look at to measure success? What budget needs to be allocated to employer branding, and how does that tie into recruiting? Here are five recruiting challenges for 2015 and how to overcome them: With so much data available, which metrics should you use to measure success?
3 Reasons Why CEOs Can’t Ignore Glassdoor
Perception is reality, especially when it comes to attracting and hiring top talent. Increasingly, investors are heeding company ratings when they research organizations. Employers need engaged employees to boost productivity and promote an employer brand. Employers run the risk of missing out on excellent candidates if they ignore their company reviews on Glassdoor and don’t analyze the competition. Bottom line? The time is now to join the conversation and let your employer perspective be heard.
5 CEO Responses on Glassdoor Worth Reading
CEOs: have you thought about responding to your company’s Glassdoor reviews? Taking the time to respond to your employees’ feedback is worth it. We’ve published countless eBooks and guides to help you respond to reviews in a timely and appropriate way. We also help you better manage negative reviews, as we believe they’re good for business.
Glassdoor Profiles or LinkedIn Company Pages: Where are Candidates Going More?
The last thing employers want to do is throw valuable recruitment budget into products and tools that aren’t working. Because LinkedIn has such a significant online presence as the world’s largest professional network, the assumption is that a company page on their site would generate tons of traffic from candidates researching them. Turns out, job seekers may be going to LinkedIn to network, but they’re not going there to research companies – for this, they’re going to Glassdoor.
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