Hiring Leadership Strategies

As the largest professional network on the internet, LinkedIn serves more than 575 million members, 26 million companies and provides access to 15 million active job listings, bringing to life real-time talent insights across industries. In this report, the company shares its latest analysis on retail talent trends in online retail companies vs. traditional brick-and-mortar retailers. The report finds tech talent is a huge part of the workforce in online retail with three times the proportion of tech talent while traditional retailers have three times the proportion of sales talent.

Last month, Total Retail released its 2018 Salary Benchmark Report, offering retailers and employees insight into the compensation packages of today's retail executives. The report was based on a survey sent to Total Retail's audience, which yielded some interesting insights about the salaries of retail executives, including that a higher title doesn't always equate a…

I’m thrilled to announce that Total Retail has just released its 2018 Salary Benchmark Report, a comprehensive guide comprised of data that analyzes key statistics on retail executives’ salaries and other financial benefits, as well as their views on career growth potential. In addition to sharing the data, we identify trends to emerge from the…

In this week's episode of Retail Right Now, Total Retail's Caitlin Sullivan and Joe Keenan discuss retailers’ efforts to retain workers, particularly store associates, as the country's labor market tightens. Walmart's decision to offer a tuition subsidy to employees who enroll in college courses to earn degrees in business or supply chain management is the latest…

Walmart announced this week it would pay for its workers to enroll in college courses, online or on campus, to earn degrees in business or supply chain management. The New York Times reports full- and part-time Walmart workers can use the tuition subsidy to take courses at the University of Florida; Brandman University in Irvine,…

This is the second and final part of a two-part series. Part one ran last week.  It Gets Worse as We Age According to Gregory Samanez-Larkin, co-director of the Scientific Research Network on Decision Neuroscience and Aging, the way we make decisions changes on a fundamental, physiological level as we age. The brain begins to…

It has always been the case that the process for deciding on external hires and even internal moves seems to take a lot of time, particularly for those on the receiving end of these decisions. However, several of our colleagues have recently lamented that the trend towards indecision has become a far more obvious problem…

“The future belongs to those who prepare for it.” While I can’t take credit for the line (thanks Ralph Waldo Emerson), I’ll appropriate it for retailers as a warning of changes to come in industry recruitment: Prepare for your company’s hiring future or it won’t have one. Current Problem: Job Seekers Don’t Like Change The…

Home Depot announced this week that it will hire more than 1,000 technology positions this year. Recode reported the home improvement retailer is using the hiring spree as a means to support an $11 billion multiyear investment plan to extend its lead in brick-and-mortar retail over competitors like Lowe’s as well as fend off increased…

For the second year in a row, Axonify has released the results of its annual State of Workplace Training Study, conducted in December 2017 by global market research firm Ipsos. The study’s goal was to gain a comprehensive view of workplace training across different industries, including retail, and highlight the importance of providing the right kind of training to drive measurable business results.