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How an Employee Referral Program Benefits Your Company

In a recent LinkedIn survey, 32 percent of employers listed employee referral programs as their top source of quality new hires. When it comes to effective recruiting – including lowered costs, a more engaged workforce, and higher long-term retention rates – an employee referral program can be a major boost to your hiring success. As [...] Read More

Tips For Uncovering Your True Hiring Needs

The best hiring strategy comes down to two key factors: knowing exactly what you need in a new employee – and knowing where to find it. If you effectively address these two areas, then you can stay on track for talent acquisition success. Follow This Checklist To be sure you clearly understand your hiring needs, [...] Read More

Why Having a Well-Written Job Description Matters

A well-written job description is one of the most essential communication tools you can have in place for your employees, managers, recruiters and prospective hires. It not only becomes a foundation for the development of interview questions, but it also fosters effective management on all levels and protects your business for the future. Strong job [...] Read More

Important Things You Can Learn From Exit Interviews

It’s tough when a good employee leaves your company. Rarely can you change their mind, once they’ve made up their minds - but you can use an exit interview as a rich source of information to help your organization improve. Rarely, if ever, will you receive such candid, frank feedback from a current member of [...] Read More

What Makes an Employee Leave a Great Company?

It happens from time to time: You have a successful company, people seem happy and content to stay, and then seemingly out of the blue, one of your top employees comes to tell you that she’s leaving. What could make her want to move on? Does it involve the manager (as the saying goes)? The [...] Read More