Diversity hiring is more than just a trend. It’s a strategy employers will continue to prioritize, and it’s something you can leverage during your job search.

In fact, a 2018 survey from LinkedIn found 78 percent of recruiters believe diversity hiring is very/extremely important. Additionally, 53 percent have mostly or completely adopted it into their hiring strategy.

You need to understand how to present yourself as the diverse candidate companies need on their teams. This will take your job search to the next level.

Here’s how to prove you’re the best choice:

This post was updated in September 2022

The ability to feel empathy is something unique to humans. Offering support to our friends and family helps us build stronger relationships. This is also true in the workplace. When co-workers are facing a difficult time, they turn to their peers. While this offers relief to the one suffering, it can create a new form of stress for the listener.

This form of stress is called compassion fatigue. Originally, it was identified in caregivers for traumatized people. For example, mental health professionals who worked with veterans with PTSD often suffered from compassion fatigue. After hearing tragic stories day after day, they began to feel overwhelming secondary stress.

Most employees aren’t at high risk for compassion fatigue. But if employees have an empathetic personality, they are more susceptible to this stress. Especially if they’re the go-to for emotional support after a crisis. It may be hard for empathetic people to turn their peers away, but leaders can step in to help.

Here are four ways to address compassion fatigue in the workplace:

This post was updated in September 2022

As a career counselor, you focus on the same things when helping job seekers research companies. You plan how to find out about salary, benefits, development opportunities, and company culture. But there’s a major factor that you might be forgetting: employee well-being.

2022 research by Gallup revealed that employee well-being is a new global imperative. For most global workers statements such as “living for the weekend,” “watching the clock tick,” and “work is just a paycheck” ring true.

This is why career counselors should help job seekers research well-being programs. Their primary focus is often money. Unless you educate them, they won’t understand how employment and wellness can go hand-in-hand.

Here are three factors your job seekers need to know about employee well-being programs:

The old ways of hiring are gone. These days, in order to reach the best talent, your employer brand must be evident online.

But it’s no longer enough to just have a company website or Facebook page that’s rarely updated. Job candidates want to get a view of what the company actually stands for and how they put their values into action. They’re looking for unique insight, and they’re doing so long before you go looking for them.

In fact, of the 1,600 talent acquisition leaders canvassed for the 2016 Jobvite Recruiter Nation Survey, 66 percent said candidates admitted they had already done extensive online research about the company before they heard about job openings there.

However, there’s no “one size fits all” solution to social media job posting. Each platform requires a unique approach. Despite the fact that individuals have various accounts, you need to reach them where they’re most likely to be searching for jobs.

Here’s how to effectively use social media to enhance your talent search: