How to Hire Seasonal Workers | AllBusiness.com

With the unemployment rate remaining low throughout the country, small business owners continue to grapple with the labor shortage, making it especially difficult to find and hire employees. And if your business experiences seasonal ebbs and flows, attracting employees interested in temporary or seasonal work is even more challenging.

But finding seasonal workers is not impossible. To get insights and advice about seasonal hiring, I talked to Natalie Dopp, chief people officer at HireVue, a hiring technology company.

How to hire seasonal workers

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Labor shortage 2021: companies tried these 6 solutions | Fast Company

America is in the midst of a nationwide labor shortage—perhaps you’ve heard? In fact, data just released by the Department of Labor shows that the number of workers quitting their jobs hit an all-time high in August. Just as businesses are free to adopt whatever office design they believe is optimal, they’ve also been free since the pandemic began to resolve workplace shortages in whatever way strikes them as the most strategic. Many companies thought inside the box for sweetening the pot: Chipotle raised wages, Amazon is reimbursing college tuition costs, and there’s a Big Tech trend toward introducing free childcare.

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