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Yahoo
03-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
enFocus closes fellowship year with impact celebration
SOUTH BEND — enFocus, a local nonprofit that attracts talent to bring innovation to the South Bend-Elkhart region, will gather with supporters from 5-6:30 p.m. July 16 at Hotel Elkhart. The event marks the completion of their Fellowship year and enFocus' commitment to building stronger communities through talent attraction, sponsored innovation projects and entrepreneurship, a statement from enFocus reads. The live event will be held at Hotel Elkhart, 500 S. Main St., Elkhart. The 2024-2025 Impact Celebration will highlight the achievements of 36 Fellows who worked with partners to fulfill more than 100 meaningful projects in the region this year alone. enFocus Fellows will present posters on 20 of the projects executed in collaboration with a variety of community partners. Projects presented will include, but are not limited to, the following: efforts to bolster South Bend's urban tree canopy, progress in economic and community development in Marshall County, home repair in the Niles-Buchanan, Michigan, area, and more. At 5:30 p.m, enFocus President Andrew Wiand and a guest speaker will give remarks on enFocus and its efforts to combat the 'brain drain' by attracting and retaining talent in northern Indiana. Andrew Wiand will be available for interviews immediately following, as well as event presenters. The event is open and free of charge to enFocus partners, supporters and interested community members. Light refreshments will be served. RSVPs are requested.
Forbes
26-06-2025
- Business
- Forbes
6 Ways Companies Can Adapt Compensation For Today's Complex Workplace
The world of work has changed significantly in recent years, and the evolution is ongoing. The workforce has become more global, flexible and skills-focused, and economic factors, including inflation, supply chain challenges and more, are weighing on leaders' minds as they seek to balance innovation with financial restraint. Companies are rethinking and revamping their compensation strategies not only for these reasons, but also to address changing employee expectations, remote work and the growing competition for top talent across borders. Modern strategies like performance-based incentives, lifestyle benefits and flexible pay structures are designed to reward impact while supporting employee well-being. To explore how companies are making these shifts work in real time, below, members of Forbes Human Resources Council share the innovative compensation approaches they're using to attract and retain top talent in a changing world. 1. Balance Fairness With Market Competitiveness Our compensation strategy adapts to inflation and global talent competition by balancing fairness with market competitiveness. For example, we offer performance-linked incentives that reward impact and contribution, ensuring employees are motivated beyond fixed pay. This approach helps us recognize talent meaningfully while staying aligned with business goals and market realities. - Sourabh Deorah, 2. Expand Salary Ranges Through Remote Hiring Remote working has allowed us to adjust our salaries—we've created a wider range to fit specific job families and role types. Historically, we would be limited to the specific local geography, but now we have an expanded market. This creates not only more options and a larger candidate pool, but also an expanded salary range. - Jake Zabkowicz, Hudson RPO Forbes Human Resources Council is an invitation-only organization for HR executives across all industries. Do I qualify? 3. Adopt A Skills-First, Location-Agnostic Pay Model Our mantra is 'FAIR': flexible, agile, impact-driven and relevant. We've shifted to a skills-first, location-agnostic pay model, benchmarking compensation globally and linking it to role criticality, not geography. For example, we introduced retention-linked bonuses and mid-cycle corrections for niche tech roles to stay competitive and reward impact, not just tenure. - Ankita Singh, Relevance Lab 4. Introduce Lifestyle Spending Accounts We introduced a lifestyle spending account to reframe compensation as care. It's not a perk; it's a proxy for trust. Instead of prescribing benefits, we fund what fuels people's lives—wellness, caregiving and creativity. That shift is helping us compete globally, retain top talent and sustain performance without sacrificing humanity. - Apryl Evans, USA for UNHCR 5. Align Incentives With Outcomes And Lifestyles Our strategy has evolved to blend competitive base pay, performance-based equity and flexibility. Inflation, remote work and global competition have shifted the focus from just compensation to aligning incentives with outcomes and lifestyle, helping attract top talent in a global market. - William Stonehouse, Crawford Thomas Recruiting 6. Offer Total Rewards That Meet Real Employee Needs The war for talent in top niches is ongoing. Now more than ever, employers are looking outside the box. An area of compensation that employers of choice should look into is total rewards perquisites, such as student loan repayment, tuition assistance, childcare discounts, remote work with annual reimbursement budgets for home office needs, and wellness programs. - Nakisha Dixon, Helios HR LLC
Yahoo
14-06-2025
- Science
- Yahoo
Amid upheaval abroad, universities urge Ottawa, Quebec to invest in attracting talent
MONTREAL — Four major Quebec universities are proposing initiatives to make the province a landing spot for high-level researchers. A joint statement released today highlights a number of moves, including co-ordinated steps at the national level to attract talent. The four universities — Université Laval, McGill University, Université de Montréal, and Université de Sherbrooke — hope to leverage political and social tensions affecting researchers around the world to lure them to Canadian schools. The group of universities, going by the name Polaris, say both Quebec and Ottawa have a role to play in making that happen. Vincent Poitout, vice-rector of research and innovation at Université de Montréal, says there is a window to transform a very unfortunate situation in science, particularly in the United States, into an opportunity for Canada. The universities note a recent survey published in Nature, a journal, that 75 per cent of researchers in the United States are considering leaving the country. This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 14, 2025. The Canadian Press Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
South China Morning Post
10-06-2025
- Health
- South China Morning Post
Hong Kong must ‘seize opportunities' to attract talent amid US student visa woes
Hong Kong should capitalise on the opportunities arising from US-China tensions to attract more talent to its academic and tech sectors, heads of the city's top medical schools have said, ahead of a visit to the world's largest biotechnology event in Boston. Representatives from the medical faculties of the University of Hong Kong (HKU) and the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) will join the delegation of the government-funded Hong Kong Science and Technology Parks Corporation (HKSTP) attending BIO 2025 between June 16 and 19. The event is reportedly the largest globally for the biotechnology industry. Responding to whether the worsening US-China rivalry had affected their work, Professor Wallace Lau Chak-sing, dean of medicine at HKU, said the tensions had instead provided incentives for talent to join Hong Kong's institutions. 'We continue to have many experts from the US supporting our work in our school of biomedical engineering. We also have an international advisory board in which many of the advisers are experienced professors from the US,' he said. 'We should not be too worried about the situation. We should take advantage of different circumstances to attract talent.'
