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6 Quick Tips for Avoiding a Bad Hire

With a worker shortage, it's easy to hire in a hurry when a candidate seems like a great fit. However, if you don't perform your due diligence, you could end up with a bad hire on your hands. How can you hire in an efficient way, yet still avoid a hiring mistake? Here are some [...]

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5 Tips for Improving Worker Safety

Worker safety is a top priority. If your business or facility isn't safe, it can lead to trips, slips, falls, and accidents that are expensive. Not only will this cost you financially, but also hit worker morale, productivity, and even retention. In fact, according to OSHA, American employers pay nearly $1 billion each week for [...]

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How to Get the Most from a New Hire

With today's worker shortage, hiring is especially challenging. Once you hire someone new, you, therefore, want to get them off on the right track so they're happy, engaged, and productive as soon as possible. To do that, it's important to have an onboarding and training program that helps them feel like part of the team [...]

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