Johnny C. Taylor Jr. tackles your workplace questions each week for USA TODAY. Taylor is president and CEO of SHRM, the world's largest trade association of human resources professionals, and author ...

In today's hiring landscape, the average job opening attracts hundreds of resumes, if not more. Of those candidates, most hiring managers will seriously consider just a handful of people for the role, ...

Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) leaders are revolutionizing their hiring approach to land ambitious and prepared talent more swiftly and successfully than before. Agency officials have blown ...

Candidates have submitted over 1.4 million applications for a state job with California this year, and they are well aware of the state’s reputation for a slow hiring process. But officials are hoping ...

People are landing jobs faster after sending fewer applications than earlier this year, according to ZipRecruiter's latest quarterly survey of 1,500 new hires. Nearly half, 49%, of recent hires ...

A third of U.S. workers with knowledge of their company’s hiring practices believe artificial intelligence tools will likely run their entire hiring process by 2026, according to an Aug. 19 report ...

The hiring process has become a high-stakes battleground. What was once a relatively secure human-to-human interaction is now vulnerable to synthetic identities, deepfakes, identity manipulation, and ...

The hiring process is becoming more time-consuming and costly, and 93% of hiring managers say it takes longer in 2025 than just two years ago, according to a June 18 report from Robert Half, a talent ...

Protesters rally outside of the Theodore Roosevelt Federal Building headquarters of the U.S. Office of Personnel Management on Feb. 5, 2025 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images) The ...