All Blog Posts Tagged 'diversity hiring & recruiting' (9)

Companies that pursued domestic emerging markets were among the first to realize the importance of employing a workforce that reflected their customer base. Usually clustered in direct service industries such as retail, banking and finance, food, hospitality and health care, these organizations understood that hiring employees who spoke the language of new and diverse consumers (both linguistically and culturally) were more likely to succeed in attracting and retaining these customers.
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By Mesia Quartano for LatPro.com

Over the last decade, online job boards have emerged as the most efficient and cost-effective recruiting method for reaching qualified professional candidates, and niche job boards have exploded in popularity as employers and jobseekers alike find that they provide an even more streamlined approach to the job search process.

Niche boards allow companies to connect with candidates who have particular skills, experience or backgrounds,… Continue

By Rob Steward and Mesia Quartano for LatPro.com

Having Hispanics in human resources leadership roles has become increasingly important in corporate America over the past decade or more. As the Hispanic population continues to grow in the US, human resources functions including recruitment, diversity, compensation, benefits, training and payr

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Q: "What would be your advice for a Hispanic professional to further his career if an opportunity arises in a company that offers a great career opportunity, but they may not have a strong diversity policy?

My experience with my last employer (a Fortune 500 company) was very productive, and I reached some professional and diversity… Continue

By Rob Steward and Mesia Quartano for LatPro.com

Most job candidates agonize over how they will respond to the questions they'll be asked in a job interview. They anticipate, prepare and practice their answers.

Of course a large portion of any employment interview involves answering questions from your potential employer, but that's only part of the picture. You should also be interviewing the employer to d… Continue

By Rob Steward and Mesia Quartano for LatPro.com

Plenty of advice is available for job seekers who choose to visit career fairs as part of their employment search, but what about the recruiters who attend these events hoping to find fresh talent, especially Hispanic and bilingual professional talent?

While most job fair tips focus on helping candidates make a positive impression, it’s just as important for recruiters to convey a professional image. After all, they ar

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Why should your company be concerned with the Hispanic market? The short answer: because 15% of the total U.S. population is currently of Hispanic descent. By the year 2050, one in four people living in the United States will be a Latino.

Other ethnic/racial groups are also rapidly expanding. All in all, the intertwinement of these growing minority groups with the traditionally defined mainstream, is defining a new “general market” that is quite different from the one your parents (or

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With skilled labor shortages widely expected as a result of retiring baby boomers and an influx of young, less experienced workers, companies wishing to remain competitive will have to use creative approaches to talent sourcing and management.

To prepare for the anticipated skilled labor shortages, proactive companies should be asking themselves: “What are we doing to attract the rich resource of diverse employees?”

If your organization does not have an answer to that question,

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With rising awareness of the size and staying power of the Latino population in the United States, organizations wishing to capture that segment have begun to move beyond marketing gimmicks that may bring Hispanic customers to their doors—but only once or twice at most.

Retailers and direct service providers, such as banks and insurance companies, are now seeing the wisdom of hiring Hispanics/Latinos to attract and retain this coveted customer base.

It is Beyond the Spanish L

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