{"id":1944,"date":"2023-06-14T15:04:36","date_gmt":"2023-06-14T15:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dexian-brasil.website-in-dev.co.uk\/?p=1944"},"modified":"2023-08-21T16:18:18","modified_gmt":"2023-08-21T16:18:18","slug":"undervalued-strengths-kindness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brasil.dexian.com\/en\/blog\/undervalued-strengths-kindness\/","title":{"rendered":"One of the Top Undervalued Strengths in a Company: Kindness"},"content":{"rendered":"

The job market is \u2013 possibly \u2013 slowing<\/a>. (Although some economists describe the current. U.S. labor market is \u201cstill chugging along,\u2019 as it added 253,000 jobs in April<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

While we\u2019re still at a low unemployment rate (3.4 percent as of the April jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics), there now are 1.7 jobs for every job candidate. And, while that doesn\u2019t sound bad it\u2019s definitely not the 2.0 jobs for every candidate right before the start of the pandemic, when the job market was considered to highly favor job seekers, rather than employers. (And we\u2019re not even talking about the number of job openings later in 2020 and 2021 when many people quit their then-current job during the \u201cGreat Resignation.)<\/p>\n

Yet if the job market slows for job candidates \u2013 which it will\u2026someday, if not soon \u2013 chances are great that employers will, once again, have the upper hand when it comes to hiring.<\/p>\n

Which often means companies may treat their employees\/candidates with less respect.<\/p>\n

This is human nature: we tend to appreciate\/want things more when they are scarce<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Yet when we feel things are plentiful and should remain that way for the foreseeable future, we can take them for granted, not work as hard to acquire them and pay less attention to them\/take less care of them.<\/p>\n

Human nature or not, taking candidates\/employees for granted during a job market downturn is inadvisable.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s why from a business standpoint:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Candidates remember \u2013 and remember well \u2013 how a company treated them when they applied for a position.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Treat them poorly when candidates are plentiful and they will<\/strong> ignore you when candidates are scarce.<\/p>\n

Even those you hire also will remember how you treated them when they were moving through the application process:<\/p>\n