The Watercooler

The Watercooler Blog is full of workplace tips and trends related to employee retention, engagement, interviewing and more. The Watercooler is frequently refilled, so gather ‘round often.

When Should You Hold Out for a Better Candidate?

Finding the best candidate to fill your open position can pose a major challenge. Your inbox may be crammed with promising resumes, but finding that candidate who is just right may continue to elude you. As you determine whether or not to hold out for a better prospect to come along, look inward: at your [...] Read More

Resolve to Improve the Candidate Experience in 2016

Have you ever searched a website in vain for something that should have been easily accessible? Or begun signing up for something that required an overly complicated application process? Or waited weeks for a response from a client? If you want the best candidates to vie for positions at your company, you have to make [...] Read More

Does Your Marketing Strategy Include LinkedIn? It Should.

Consider a few numbers: LinkedIn currently has over 400 million users and growing. The average CEO has 930 connections on LinkedIn. And there are two new LinkedIn users per second. So if you haven't become part of the 107 million LinkedIn users in the U.S., you've got quite a few reasons to join up and [...] Read More

How to Keep Your Employees Engaged During the Holidays

As the holidays get closer, most employees begin to have their thoughts focus more and more on the upcoming time off and the inevitable whirlwind that goes along with it, rather than their jobs. It's a busy time of year on all fronts, both personal and professional, so how can you manage to keep employees [...] Read More

Tips for Effective Year-End Reviews

A quality, helpful year-end review should go far beyond filling out requisite forms and quickly meeting with each employee if you want to make it effective. Take these tips so you can use this year's reviews to inform and improve overall performance for the year to come. Prepare. This may sound obvious, but many employers [...] Read More

Top 3 HR Posts of 2015

As employers vied for top talent in 2015, it was critical that they kept their eyes on the prize. This meant nurturing relationships with team members, giving them room to stretch and grow, and performing as effective, efficient leaders. Our PrideStaff Fresno blog followers were keen to learn more about setting the right tone with [...] Read More