Recruiting Advice From Katrina Kibben.

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    How will employers use AI to vet resumes? How will that get tougher now that applicants use AI to write resumes and applications?

    If you grew up in a family of people with traditional jobs, pricing your services gets harder. Here’s my advice.

    We talk a lot about leadership and spend less time thinking about what actually makes a great boss.

    Creating a culture of empathy and job security encourages inclusivity, empowering chronically ill employees to contribute their best to the company's success.

    This free inclusive hiring workbook with advice from 10+ industry experts will help your team write a talent roadmap that builds belonging.

    The origins of the 4-day work week and why offering a flex schedule is going to become an advantage to compete for talent.

    If you’re looking to engage employees, try internal mobility & creating opportunities that keep them in your organization.

    Job hopping is viewed poorly by recruiters. But is the fear of being viewed as a job hopper worth your mental health?

    All impactful Employee Resource Groups have 1 thing in common: they can’t make progress without having hard conversations.

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    Is AI rejecting your job application? Here's a lesson on keyword loading and the things the ATS can actually do.

    Allyship in the workplace means using your personal privilege to support colleagues from historically marginalized communities. It’s about education and action.

    What happens on day one for gender non-binary workers matters. It sets the tone for the team, the employee, and says a lot about your culture.

    Being an ally in the workplace isn't just rainbow backgrounds and t-shirts in June. There are subtle cues to show your allyship every day.

    Pronoun policies often leave out the most important part: humanity. That's why we need to reconsider them as well as requiring pronouns.

    You can help employees be better allies in their communities by introducing them to speakers and initiatives that teach allyship.

    Should we require people to share their pronouns? I think they should be mandatory in email signatures because they are one of the small subtle cues of love.

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    Normalize sharing your pronouns, whether that's in your day to day life or in your email signature. You can help people you'll never meet.

    People realized they don't belong in shitty workplaces and they have power. The result? A talent market we've never seen.

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    How do you develop DEI leadership skills if there are no entry-level jobs? What are the essential skills?

    Gender pronouns at work can help build belonging. Before adding them to your email signature, let's talk about why they matter.

    How do you build a company's culture right now, online? Here are a few ideas you 100% should steal to build your remote company culture.

    I'm going to go out on a limb here and guess that most of us have never had to write crisis communication messages for a pandemic before. Admittedly, I haven't.  I'd be the worst crisis communicator ever. For one thing, I have anxiety. I have no poker face and I sweat a lot. I am […]

    I started fighting my way to new job titles, and their accompanying self-validation, long before this. Then I had a reality check. Job titles are completely made up.

    Why mirror corporate America if I can make something even better? As entrepreneurs, we should be the ones trying innovative workplace models.

    An HR leader contacted me about using the they pronoun at work. Here's our conversation and my advice.