As the workplace continues to evolve, leading companies are recognizing that traditional benefits packages alone aren’t enough to attract and retain top talent. Today’s employees expect comprehensive well-being support that addresses their physical, mental, financial, and social needs—both at work and beyond. The most forward-thinking organizations are going beyond standard health insurance and PTO to … Read full-story
Please describe a few of your professional development programs. At Certinia, we have recently launched an impressive Learning & Development program that has garnered strong engagement from our employees. We offer L&D opportunities for all levels of employees, making sure the courses have a clear structure that allows them to build on each other. To … Read full-story
Think back to your earliest dreams of career. Sure, you need to make some money to live your life, but think about the kind of jobs most of us first ponder as kids: they’re all about being essential, being heroic, and making the world a better place. Along the way, many of us let the … Read full-story
What are some of the ways your company combats climate change? A leader in fast-casual dining, Chipotle has been committed to serving Food with Integrity and revolutionizing the fast food industry since its inception. In 2021, Chipotle set science-based targets with the Science-Based Targets initiative (SBTi) to reduce absolute Scope 1, 2, and 3 greenhouse … Read full-story
As with almost everything else surrounding life in business, internships have also had to evolve or at least temporarily transform into sometimes virtual internships. Those looking ahead to 2022 internships can start here with these companies, which have all responded thoughtfully when we asked about what their internship programs offered and how they may have … Read full-story
Like seemingly so many side effects of the COVID pandemic (still itself a major problem as this is being written), flex schedules are an undeniably welcome idea for many that might never have been adopted in earnest if not for the terrifying situation we’ve all faced for much more than a single year now. So … Read full-story
Working mothers needed more thoughtful and robust support long before the COVID epidemic overtook and perhaps forever altered the way we balance work and life – now they desperately need more help: from their partners, from their societies, and from the companies they work for. It’s still too soon to tell whether things have fundamentally … Read full-story
Onboarding was already an imprecise art at many companies before the pandemic of 2020. Many different companies use many different ways of making sure that new hires were brought up to speed as quickly and efficiently as possible. This was all, of course, a lot easier in a general sense when we were all sharing … Read full-story
Everyone understands that Black History Month is a time when we as a country celebrate the achievements of African Americans and recognize their immense contributions to our society and culture. The tradition has stood since 1976. This year, and the last few, cannot help feeling a bit different. That’s because, in an undeniable way, Black … Read full-story
Employees looking to spend a long tenure with a company especially younger workers – are increasingly concerned about finding a company that gives back to the world, and that makes an effort to encourage employees to do so as well. They want to know that a certain amount of their time and effort is given directly … Read full-story
November 11th is Veterans Day. The federal holiday was initially dedicated – along with Armistice Day and Remembrance Day – to make the end of World War 1. The Great War, as we came to call that conflict, is for many alive today not much more than the distant sound of thunder. But the reasons for Veteran’s … Read full-story
Helping to encourage employees to vote, and making sure they get the time off to do so, is a fantastic and mutually beneficial form of corporate engagement that shows a commitment to the underlying facets of our shared citizenship in a democracy. But it can be a tricky ideal for a corporate entity to … Read full-story
Recruitment marketing is the art of attracting top talent to your company using a healthy employer brand. It’s all about treating potential talent as customers. This requires a recruitment marketing team that knows where to look for and how to entice top talent who often have a spread of interested companies to choose from. It’s the place … Read full-story
Employer brand is an area where every modern company needs to shine. This means that those companies need someone keeping the employer brand humming, someone who knows how to broker the happiest and most mutually beneficial outcomes between the companies they work for and the employees they depend on. In that spirit, here are 21 … Read full-story
Gen Z. They have high-tech minds. They expect a healthy work-life balance. They require a lot of feedback. They want to start their own businesses. They’re excellent multitaskers. Soon, they’ll surpass Millennials as the Earth’s most populous generation. And constituting a quarter of the US population, they’re the most diverse generation in the nation’s history. … Read full-story
Summer internship season is almost upon us, and companies all across the US are currently accepting applications from college students and the like who are are eager to start their careers in the industries that hold the most fascination for them. Here are 20 exciting companies in the Silicon Valley area that are accepting applications … Read full-story
Diversity and inclusion are important, but some companies simply talk the talk without walking the walk. Even if such forward-thinking policies can lead to increased financial success, productivity, and innovation, it’s still taking some U.S. companies literal generations to overcome an obvious societal bias towards hiring a certain kind of person – a bias that … Read full-story
Sales roles never go out of fashion, because they are consistently critical to building and maintaining any business’ customer base. 36% of U.S. companies say they’re planning to increase their hiring for sales roles. And the role of sales rep, in particular, was rated 5th Happiest Job in America by Business Insider. It’s a challenging … Read full-story
The holidays are firmly in the rearview mirror. Frigid mornings are overstaying their welcome and summer can’t seem to get here soon enough. All of this collectively can only mean one thing, “New Year New You” season is upon us. That magical time of year where we set lofty goals, break out the gym sweats, … Read full-story
Move over Silicon Valley. The Silicon Roundabout – and the United Kingdom’s tech industry at large – is expanding. As industrious a region as the U.K. is, it was only a matter of time before it started catching up to friends across the pond and elsewhere in terms of tech. Yes, tech in the UK is thriving … Read full-story
In the SaaS (or “software as a service”) industry model, a third-party provider hosts and makes applications available to customers over the internet. As a major wing of the larger cloud computing industry, SaaS is seeing exponential growth: forecasts predict that by 2021, SaaS revenues are expected to grow to $278.3 billion – that’s a … Read full-story
City by the Bay and tech hub of the Western universe, San Francisco is the cultural, financial, and commercial center of northern California. Companies aim to attract and keep the kind of top talent that drives the future here. Millennial employees of these eighteen Bay Area businesses rated their companies highly on Comparably, saying these workplaces … Read full-story
