Employees generally expect their company’s salary structure to curve upwards: senior team members have higher salaries than their junior colleagues, while managers earn more than their direct reports.

In decades past, people didn’t always discuss salaries with their colleagues.

I’ve consulted with a lot of organizations on issues around employee salaries, and I’ve learned one important thing.

Many of my clients are surprised when I share that a proper job title and a well-written job description are crucial parts of a successful search for the right employee.

Ever since the pandemic, employees have been demanding more Paid Time Off (PTO) and other forms of leave. And that's understandable--most of us realized during the crisis that we all need to spend more time with our families and enjoy life outside of work.

People often use terms like "employer's market" and "candidate's market" to describe how hard or difficult it is to recruit. But for some people, it is always a candidate's market. These are people qualified for hot jobs: positions where employer demand is greater than the supply of available talent.