E13: Building Talent Pipelines for Hard-To-Fill Jobs
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Release Date: 10/14/2025
E18: Navigating Employee Visas
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Many U.S. companies rely on foreign workers to fill critical skills gaps and advance innovation. Under the current federal administration there is a broad effort to reduce immigration, which creates challenges for employers who rely on the visa process to attract and retain the necessary talent to run and expand their businesses. In this episode, you'll discover some of the challenges these companies face and what some companies are doing to overcome these challenges.
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E17: Workforce Planning in an Uncertain Economy
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The top challenge for most businesses today is adapting to economic uncertainty. This is particularly true for workforce planning. For many companies, it is their largest expense and the most important factor driving profitability. Making the right decisions is critical to company success. Today, we are going to discuss top trends for workforce planning in an uncertain economy.
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E16: Three Approaches to Implement AI in the Workplace
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One of the most important business topics today is leveraging AI to improve productivity. But AI is such a broad technology that it’s extremely difficult to predict its effectiveness in a specific workplace without trying it first. In this episode we discuss three approaches to implementing AI in the workplace.
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E15: Identifying High-Potential Employees
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Tune in to discover why employers should identify high potential employees and what specific methods they can use to do it.
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E14: New Research on Why People Quit
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In this episode you'll hear about new research by management scholars and business consultants that identified several interesting insights into why workers continue to quit at relatively high rates, and how employees can intervene.
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E13: Building Talent Pipelines for Hard-To-Fill Jobs
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In this episode, we discuss how to build talent pipelines for hard-to-fill jobs. Many, if not most, companies have one or more important positions where they struggle to find qualified candidates. The total cost to implement workarounds to accommodate vacant positions can be very high, which is why it is such an important issue to solve.
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E12: The Golden Age of the Silver Worker
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In this episode, we discuss the Golden Age of the Silver Worker. The traditional retirement age between 60 and 65 has shifted dramatically in recent years. For a variety of reasons, older workers are choosing to remain active in the workplace. Silver workers have proven to be an extremely valuable talent pool for companies needing to recruit highly skilled, experienced employees.
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E11: The Rise of Incivility in the Workplace
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In this episode, we discuss the rise of incivility in the workplace. This is a growing trend in U.S. society that has spilled over into the workplace and therefore, must be addressed by company leadership.
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E10: Using People Analytics to Solve Workforce Challenges
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In this episode, you'll hear about a growing trend with HR professionals, which is using something called People Analytics to inform decisions and strategies for solving workforce challenges.
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E09: Rethinking Talent Strategy for an Unpredictable Future
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One of the most obvious challenges for today’s business leaders is our unpredictable future. Developing and executing strategies to grow the bottom line is challenging enough, but to do so in such a rapidly changing business environment is exponentially more difficult. In this episode, you'll hear about some businesses are rethinking their talent strategies to overcome unpredictability.
info_outlineIn this episode, we discuss how to build talent pipelines for hard-to-fill jobs. Many, if
not most, companies have one or more important positions where they struggle to find qualified candidates. The total cost to implement workarounds to accommodate vacant positions can be
very high, which is why it is such an important issue to solve.