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Last month, Orion Talent gathered a panel of talent acquisition leaders and military veterans to explore the numerous and often surprising benefits of hiring military in our webinar, The Unexpected Workplace Advantages of Veterans: How to Leverage Military Success for Workplace Victory.

Orion Talent’s HR Executive Roundtable—a meeting of senior HR and employment leaders whom Orion gathers every few months to discuss hot topics in the world of talent acquisition—convened at the end of January to discuss a current talent challenge: upskilling.

Construction is booming, so it stands to reason that about 23% of the new jobs for engineers that will be created through 2026 are projected to be for civil engineers. These openings are in part due to an aging workforce, a lack of skilled talent, and the Great Resignation.

In their recent Recruiting Daily article, Recruiting Hourly Workers in ‘Crazy Town’, former Orion Talent CEO Mike Starich and Director of Talent Acquisition Rachel Ward explore the hourly worker shortage.

Forbes recently published an article featuring Orion Talent’s new CEO Sarah Peiker, who joined the company in October with a commitment to expand Orion’s veteran talent pool as well as help companies onboard former service members.

Drive down any major road, and you will undoubtedly see buildings going up. Some are only a few stories while some reach high into the sky.

HR Morning, which provides the latest HR and employment law news for HR professionals, recently published a series of articles covering 2022 workplace trends and ideas for building a more diverse workforce.

You have undoubtedly heard about the many specialized hard skills and sought-after soft skills that military veterans bring to the civilian workplace.

There’s no question the biggest pain point in talent acquisition this year has been finding qualified talent, so it comes as no surprise that all of the most-read articles of 2021 were about helping secure and retain the talent we all need so desperately.

What a difference a year makes. In October 2020, we were seven months into the COVID-19 pandemic and had made countless adjustments to the way in which we conduct our personal and professional lives.

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