As the boss, it’s beyond frustrating to ask your employees to do something and be met with a resounding “No.” In some cases, this means you have a bad seed on your hand, but in others, you may actually be the problem. Good workers are hard to come by, so it’s important to get to [...]
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You always want the best people for your team, and you may have just what you need waiting in the wings if you have successful interns. So how do you know which interns to hire and which ones to simply thank for their time? Use the following criteria to help you decide. They’ve significantly contributed [...]
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Effective onboarding is a crucial tool to ensure that new employees feel like part of your business and fully understand your company culture. The ability to introduce new hires to your organization, make them productive and effective in the shortest possible time – and retain them – is an essential business priority with key bottom-line [...]
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A good leader must always project a rock-solid demeanor of calm, leaving sentiment at home - lest employees think them weak, of course. Then again, maybe not. If you want employees to get passionately invested in their work and the company, you have to show a little passion yourself. A message that comes off as too [...]
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As reported by the White House, full-time working women receive 77 percent of their male counterparts’ salaries. April 20 was “equal pay payday,” representing how far a woman needed to work into 2015 to earn as much as a man did in 2014. And as cited by 77 percent of females and 63 percent of [...]
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You’ve worked hard to create a new workplace policy that will benefit your company greatly. You deserve a pat on the back! But your work…
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If you’re having trouble finding top talent to fill open positions at your company, partnering with a staffing firm can be a great move. Staffing agencies have carefully cultivated networks filled with hard-to-find talent looking for new opportunities. Choosing the right staffing firm to work with can set the foundation for current and future success, [...]
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It’s hard to believe it, but fall has officially arrived, meaning the end of the year is just around the corner. If your company hasn’t been working to achieve all of those lofty goals you set at the beginning of the year, it’s time to kick it into high gear and make some serious progress! [...]
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Once you’ve gone through the often exhaustive process of hiring a new employee, do you really have to contact the candidates who didn’t get chosen? Actually, yes, you should. Even if they didn’t get the job, they got close, and they probably wanted the job just as much (and sometimes more) than the candidate who [...]
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An essential factor in edging out your competition is hiring and retaining the best talent. A recent Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) study showed that when asked why they would look elsewhere for work, 35 percent of employees said it was because they were dissatisfied with their current career paths. Thirty-two percent reported that [...]
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October 23, 2015
