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Compliance in 2015: Are You Up to Date?

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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Looking Toward Setting Annual Goals in 2015

Were New Year’s resolutions meant to be broken? The statistics would support this theory, as one-third of all Americans resolve to better themselves every January. While 75 percent of them uphold their resolutions for at least a week, only 46 percent are still on track six months later. But when it comes to your career [...]

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Hiring Mistakes we Can Learn From

“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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