You may have the brightest and best-qualified individuals working for you, but unless they collaborate as a team, your chances of success in achieving business goals are slim to none.On a well-functioning team, every member feels empowered and valued. They continue to develop stronger cohesion with their coworkers, which ultimately boosts morale and productivity. The [...]
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From time-to-time, every organization is bound to struggle with filling a vacant position. Whether strict hiring criteria, timing, geography, or a lack of qualified applicants…
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In the hiring process, once you’ve got a group of seemingly qualified candidates, the temptation may arise to simply take their resume (and interview, if you’ve gotten that far) at face value and move on to the next stage. A word of advice: Don’t.More companies than would care to admit have stories of hires whose [...]
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The economy has picked up and, as we well know, there’s a somewhat different pool of talent to cull from when it comes to candidates. The type of person looking for work ranges from the recent college graduate, to the seasoned professional laid off due to cutbacks, to the person looking to make a career [...]
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As you prepare to welcome 2015, it’s a good idea to take a look at your company policies and make sure you’re starting the year off on the right foot, particularly with regard to safety policies and OSHA regulations. If you haven’t revisited or revamped in a while, take time now to do so. It [...]
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“Everyone makes mistakes”--a very familiar platitude, and a very true one. And hopefully, we all learn from our mistakes (another familiar statement). When those mistakes occur in the hiring process, however, the lessons gleaned can range from minor and annoying to complicated, prolonged, and expensive. So take a look at some of the hiring mistakes [...]
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As the New Year begins, hiring in the U.S. continues its upward trend and job openings are at a near-record high. In 2015, monthly job gains are forecast to reach 250,000 a month or approximately 3 million for the year.California’s economy, like that of the nation, continues to improve. Unemployment is trending down and housing, [...]
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Unemployment is creeping lower. Recruiting is getting harder by the day. But if the right candidates aren’t beating a path to your door these days,…
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As the new year approaches, you want to approach it with everything in place in terms of policies for your employees. And this is the perfect time to implement any new policies or changes to current ones--set everything up so that when 2015 comes around, employees will know your expectations right away.Computer SecurityUnfortunately, in an [...]
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As you prepare to interview prospective candidates, you probably have a list of things you want to tell them and ideas of how best to get the measure of each person before making a decision to hire. But no matter what industry you work in, you should ask every candidate these six questions that will [...]
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February 27, 2015
