Originally hailing from Ohio, Amy is a content strategist on the marketing and communications team who has been with both CareerBuilder and the city of Chicago for more than eight years. She writes on a range of recruitment topics on The Hiring Site, striving to bring a dose of clarity and humor to sometimes complicated issues around employee attraction, engagement and retention.
The voice of @cbforemployers on Twitter, Amy also writes and edits content for the CareerBuilder website and CareerBuilder ebooks, emails, marketing campaigns, and more. When she's not working, Amy spends as much time as possible reading, cooking, writing short stories, eating Nutella out of the jar, waiting for CTA buses and trains, going to see her favorite bands live, and spending time with people who inspire and challenge her. 
If you’re still lamenting the end of the 2013 HCI Human Capital Summit, you can dry those eyes and slowly take down your #hcsummitshrine: We’ve rounded up our favorite tips, quotes and ideas from the conference below:
Good news for 2013′s college grads: They’re entering a stronger job market than they would have right after the Great Recession began.
This year’s hiring is holding steady from 2012: More than half (53 percent) of U.S. employers plan to hire recent college graduates in 2013, on par with 2012′s 54 percent and up significantly from 46 percent in 2011 and 44 percent in 2010. Continue reading
“Doing the bull dance. Feeling the flow. Workin’ it. Workin’ it.” These words, spoken by Potter (Kevin Nealon) in Happy Gilmore, came to mind when reviewing the results of CareerBuilder’s Q2 2013 job forecast, which included input from more than 2,000 hiring managers and HR professionals. Continue reading
College. The institution without which we would be robbed of classics like National Lampoon’s Animal House, Old School, Revenge of the Nerds, Tommy Boy, and Real Genius (which filled many of us with the false notion that ice parties are a regular college event). Continue reading
How will you celebrate this Valentine’s Day? Perhaps you’ll canoodle with your loved one over an almost-chicken dinner, or gossip with friends and cocktails (same thing?) over mani-pedis. Maybe you’ll throw conversation hearts at the TV screen while crying over “Gigli” for the fourteenth time (who hasn’t?), or whip up a batch of your favorite Valentine’s Day cookies while calling all your exes and promptly hanging up. Continue reading
Catered gourmet lunches. Nap pods. On-site massages. Bike repair for commuters — or “baby cash” for new parents. Self-created job titles. Half-day Fridays — or four-day workweeks. Paid month-long company shutdowns. Free dry cleaning — or even house cleaning. Continue reading
We have a pretty good idea by now of what businesses across the U.S. are planning when it comes to hiring, finances and compensation in 2013 — but what does growth look like for economies around the world?
CareerBuilder’s first-ever annual job forecast of the 10 largest world economies answers this question for us and reveals that while some countries, like Brazil and India, are confident about the year ahead (more than two-thirds of employers in these markets planning to add full-time, permanent headcount in 2013), others, like Italy, appear to be more guarded (more employers expect to decrease staff than those who expect to hire). Continue reading
Have you ever had a job candidate call his or her significant other during an interview to casually inquire about that night’s dinner plans? CareerBuilder’s annual study on the most common and outlandish job interview mistakes, conducted among more than 2,600 hiring managers and 3,900 workers across the nation, found a litany of cringe-worthy mistakes made during interviews — dinnterview etiquette (yes, I just made that up and immediately regret it) being just one of them. Continue reading
Although 2013 is expected to bring more jobs (along with spiked eggnog-fueled versions of Auld Lang Syne and maybe a not-so Rockin’ Eve sans Dick Clark), U.S. employers are playing it cool right now. According to CareerBuilder’s annual hiring forecast, conducted among 2,611 hiring managers and HR professionals and 3,991 workers, more than a quarter — 26 percent — of hiring managers plan to add full-time, permanent employees in the New Year, up three percentage points over 2012. Continue reading
We’re in the thick of Cyber Monday, a term coined in 2005 to explain the online version of Black Friday’s shopping craze. The highly anticipated day isn’t just about a handful of online deals, either: This Cyber Monday is expected to be the biggest online shopping day of the year for the third year in a row. Continue reading
