Could your benefits use a makeover this year?

FINANCIAL WELLNESS: Healthcare benefits company Lively found that over 80% of employers plan on adding or improving their benefits in the next year in an effort to recruit and retain talent. Whether a company is trying to come back from a round of layoffs or they're actively hiring, upgrading their benefits is still a big priority.

Lively, Inc. found that one in four employers plan on adding wellness benefits, bonuses and emergency savings accounts, while one in five want to add pet insurance, expanded PTO, professional development opportunities and lifestyle spending accounts.

Are you ready to revamp your benefits? Here's where to start: Over 80% of employers plan on giving their benefits an upgrade in the next year

FOCUS ON CONNECTION: Jennifer Dulski has loved building businesses from scratch since she started her first nonprofit right out of college. After stints at 雅虎 , 谷歌 and Meta , and launching several startups of her own, she created leadership development and employee engagement platform, Rising Team , in 2020, which provides manager coaching using AI.

"Companies with highly-engaged employees perform better, and this is what ultimately led me to build Rising Team," Dulski says. "You cannot create a team and make people feel important and valued and therefore engaged in their work without taking time to be intentional about how you do it."

Here's what inspires Dulski's work, and how tech is a great motivator: From teacher to tech exec, this CEO wants her teams to feel valued

RECRUITING RANDOMNESS: Kickresume tasked six recruiters with reviewing 6,000 resumes to place job applicants with?6,000 available roles, but the recruiters weren't told they would see the same resume twice. Upon seeing the resume again, Kickresume found that there was only a 40% chance recruiters would choose that candidate again, even after previously deeming them a good fit for a job post.

"This basically means they were halfway towards randomness," says Peter Duris, co-founder and CEO of Kickresume. "This just goes to show how unpredictable the process can be."?

Is there a way to beat the system? Recruiters are choosing resumes more randomly than you think