As a leader of Boston’s placement firm and a Top 100 Women-Led Business, Hollister Staffing, Director of Recruiting Katie Buchta is helping to build upon a culture of inclusion and diversity. Also recognized as a “Best Place to Work,” Hollister Staffing is a leader at connecting skilled talent with companies looking to fill key positions … Read full-story
“I think if you spoke to any HR professional, the one thing they’re not going to tell you is as a child, they were dreaming of being an HR professional,” says Rebecca Pacillas, chief people officer at American Advisors Group (AAG), the top lender in the American reverse mortgage industry. “But I suspect they were … Read full-story
The ways in which employees determine how satisfied they are at work are changing faster than many of us realize. As a culture, we’re not that many decades into recognizing the benefits of a healthy work culture on the bottom line – and now, with the thunderbolt of the COVID pandemic, that healthy work culture needs … Read full-story
Growing a software company, let alone scaling globally, is no easy feat. For the latest episode of Comparably and Entrepreneur's Leadership Lessons series, here's the inside scoop from a true industry veteran with a storied 30-year career leading butt software businesses: Medallia (NYSE: MDLA) President/CEO Leslie Stretch … Read full-story
Greg Ingino, Chief Technology Officer for Vertafore, is laser-focused on developing his people and solving complex problems. As North America’s InsurTech leader for more than 50 years, Vertafore is the software solutions partner for independent insurance agents and brokers, carriers, and MGAs, and is transforming the industry and providing career opportunities worldwide. As the CTO, … Read full-story
Engineers are a rare breed. It’s not just the paycheck or the benefits that inspire their finest work, but the actual challenges they’re offered to solve. Engineering talent has never been more valuable than it is today, so here are ten companies that are currently offering engineers the kind of big, meaty problems the best … Read full-story
It’s no secret that STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) has long been considered a male-dominated field, and that such assumptions have made it challenging for women to have gender equality in the field for decades. IPC Systems strives to break down those barriers twofold, with a focus on both hiring and investing in the development … Read full-story
Coverage of 17 companies and their current DE&I efforts. … Read full-story
There is surely no greater disruptor of the way we work than a pandemic. The COVID pandemic reshuffled the deck for most of us in terms of where we work, how we work, and when we work. While “the future of working” has always been something to come on, it seems that a real new … Read full-story
Join Ariella Coombs, Director of Career Support at Work It Daily for an insightful 1-hour live event on The 8 Things Job Seekers Need To Know Before Applying To A Company! … Read full-story
With the dust kicked up by the COVID-19 pandemic finally beginning to clear for many, it’s a new frontier of working we see before us in the still-hazy aftermath. Remote work, long a possibility, became a necessity after the virus shook our lives and businesses up. Now that a return to office working is potentially a … Read full-story
What the pandemic has taught everyone is that pivoting business operations in crisis can be a challenge. Comparably Co-founder CEO Jason Nazar recently invited a renowned leader in sales, operations, and technology to discuss the winning strategies for small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) to drive product innovation and growth during this monumental time. For the … Read full-story
They’ll write a book one day about all the positive, perhaps long-delayed advancements made in our society as a result of the COVID pandemic. While nobody would wish a pandemic on anyone, it does seem that certain practices, long considered advantageous, have been forced into more general practice due to our needs as a whole … Read full-story
Louisa Stead is VP, Human Resources North America for skincare company Beiersdorf. She previously held major roles at Pfizer and British Airways. Starting in public relations communications, Stead found herself increasingly drawn to helping solve people’s problems. She began her career in HR proper at a law firm and has never looked back: “I had … Read full-story
“Every day I receive at least 100 ideas, and 98 of them are great ideas. Maybe we can do 20. And so, what I do, very kindly, is say no to 80 people a day. But I have to explain why; that’s the information that people want.” That’s the frank truth from BJ Schaknowski, CEO … Read full-story
Nearly every company in North America has to be either considering a digital transformation, already be working on one, or have a digital plan firmly in place. Even before the COVID pandemic scrambled processes from coast to coast, most businesses were aware – especially consumer-facing ones – that there was a need to meet the … Read full-story
As Pride Month begins, here are 13 companies that are publicly supportive of their LGBTQ employees, helping them simply to be themselves, no longer forced to quell their basic human nature by a system of discrimination. … Read full-story
Purpose of The Study With COVID’s financial burden continuing to wreak havoc on the economy, many recent high school grads and those with some college (but no degree) are finding it challenging to pay for college. They have either postponed their education or quit altogether to help provide for their boot-strapped families. But in tech, … Read full-story
There is no bottom-line requirement that a company give back to its community, or to behave as a respectable citizen would, with a sense of civic responsibility. Most businesses are out to make money, lest we forget, and even the most benevolent for-profit organizations still have to keep an eye first and foremost on their … Read full-story
Next Monday, May 31st, is Memorial Day, during which we commemorate the men and women who died while in the military service of their country, particularly those who died in battle or as a result of wounds sustained in battle. In recognition of those who gave their lives, here are eleven companies that all celebrate, honor, … Read full-story
With recent extreme weather events and other natural disasters, consumer demand for solar panels and batteries has accelerated. After the Texas power grid failure, web traffic to Sunrun (Nasdaq: RUN), the nation’s leading installer of residential rooftop solar panels and batteries, jumped 350 percent in the state. Comparably co-Founder/CEO Jason Nazar recently had the timely … Read full-story
Professional development is at the very least a secondary concern for just about anyone who holds down a job anywhere. Especially early in our careers, very few of us are happy with the idea of staying in one role forever without notching up eventually in title, pay, and influence. And even those of us who … Read full-story
“Life is better live,” says a representative from one of today’s featured companies. That will certainly ring true for workers across the nation who are now – since the COVID shakeup – working from home, often at their own pace, and closer to their loved ones. But what about those people and culture leaders at … Read full-story
With tens of millions of Americans out of work due to the pandemic, many are searching for their next role in this tough job market — or inspired to start their own business. For the latest episode of Comparably’s leadership lessons series with Entrepreneur, Comparably Co-founder/CEO Jason Nazar sat down with an expert in both … Read full-story
Mothers are central to all our lives. For almost everyone, a mother is our soft spot, our memory of mercy and comfort from our earliest years. Our mothers are our friends, our heroes, our confidantes, our trusted navigators, our role models, our earliest examples of someone who is on our side for it all. And … Read full-story
THE JUNGLE GYM Trisha Price is Chief Product Officer for nCino, the worldwide leader in cloud banking that empowers financial institutions with scalable technology to help them achieve revenue growth, greater efficiency, cost savings, and regulatory compliance. In the summer of 2020, nCino successfully IPO’d in the middle of one of the most uncertain moments in recent … Read full-story
The COVID-19 pandemic knocked the entire globe back on our heels over the past year, but thanks to the widespread availability of multiple vaccines in the U.S. there seems to be a light at the end of the tunnel. Even with that glimmer of hope, experts have recently said that “reaching herd immunity is unlikely” … Read full-story
Keith Flail is Executive Vice President, Advanced Vertical Lift Systems for Bell. He leads all program execution and business development efforts to design, produce, and field Bell’s next-generation military aircraft for DoD and US allies, which include the Bell V-280 Valor tiltrotor, and the Bell 360 Invictus. During his eight-year career at Bell, Keith has … Read full-story
May is recognized as Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month and Comparably wanted to shine a light on companies that are always supportive of their Asian-American and Pacific Islander employees and communities. Asian/Pacific American Heritage Month began as just a ten-day celebration in the late 70s but was reborn as a month-long recognition period in 1992. The month … Read full-story
Comparably is happy to announce that our next set of awards for 2021 will be unveiled in mid-July. These annual lists will showcase the leaders and leadership teams who are driving positive culture change across companies large and small. Based solely on employee sentiment, the top-rated companies and CEOs in the following categories will be recognized: Best CEOs … Read full-story
