Rob Levin

In today’s rapidly evolving job market, the talent crisis is casting a shadow over the potential growth of small and midsize businesses (SMBs) in the US. Job openings are surging, surpassing the number of available skilled workers, resulting in a vicious cycle of long hiring times, skyrocketing salary expectations, dwindling efficiency, and declining productivity of the US workforce. 

In response to the talent crisis, SMBs should reevaluate their hiring strategies. The key ideas covered include: 

• The pressing issues affecting the speed of hiring & and rising costs
• The impact on productivity for SMBs
• Finding ways to attract & and retain great talent without breaking the bank
• Practical tips on seamlessly hiring, integrating, and managing remote talent 
• Utilizing AI and automation to mitigate productivity challenges and gain a competitive advantage

Business today is changing at an increasingly rapid pace. And it’s critical that business owners and executives continually assess how customer expectations, buying habits, and employee expectations are changing and impacting their businesses. However, most face the challenge of finding time to prioritize those high-value, high-level activities. 

Most often, they’re wearing multiple hats and dealing with dozens of administrative issues. At the end of the day, they’ve spent an immense amount of energy on tasks of lower value. This constant cycle of busyness leaves them feeling drained while business objectives are not met.

This topic helps business owners and execs break free from the cycle by providing insights around: 

Understanding the importance of focusing on high-value work

Realizing the true cost of spending time doing admin work

• Finding more time in their schedule
• Thinking strategically about time management
• Identifying which tasks to hand over
• Determining when they may need an assistant
• Best practices for hiring an assistant
• Best practices when onboarding an assistant

Hiring remote talent used to seem impractical for small and midsize companies. But times have changed, and today, many of the most forward-thinking and highly successful business owners rely on remote workers to some degree. These owners have realized the flexibility, broader talent pool, increased productivity, and cost savings that hiring remote talent can offer them. And yet, more businesses are now taking it even further: They’re enlisting overseas talent to overcome the shortage of affordable and productive workers. 

How businesses access the global talent marketplace has evolved considerably in recent years, as a surge of collaborative work technologies makes it easier than ever to bring on workers from around the world with the skills, experience, work ethic, and enthusiasm that businesses are looking for. So, how can your company take advantage of this big remote work opportunity?

This topic includes: 

• Talent changes US companies are navigating
• How hiring overseas talent addresses challenges
• Which types of talent to hire
• Deciding where to source talent from
• Questions to ask an overseas talent provider