April 11, 2016- Posted in
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We’ve all heard the stories about the employee in the large company who feels like just one more cog in the giant corporate machine, doing a thankless job and getting no recognition aside from a paycheck and a W-2. And as an employer you might make the legitimate statement that you simply don’t have time [...]
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When creating a resume, it should look as complete as possible -- while you don't want to fill it up with too much or make it too wordy, you also don't want to have large blank spaces because you simply don't have the numbers to make it look complete. Everyone says that it helps to have concrete [...]
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Consider a few numbers: LinkedIn currently has over 400 million users and growing. The average CEO has 930 connections on LinkedIn. And there are two new LinkedIn users per second. So if you haven't become part of the 107 million LinkedIn users in the U.S., you've got quite a few reasons to join up and [...]
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A quality, helpful year-end review should go far beyond filling out requisite forms and quickly meeting with each employee if you want to make it effective. Take these tips so you can use this year's reviews to inform and improve overall performance for the year to come. Prepare. This may sound obvious, but many employers [...]
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We as Americans don’t always take advantage of our vacation time... Perhaps it has something to do with the immense pressure we immediately put on ourselves after coming back to work. That first-day-back transition can feel fairly ugly if you don’t anticipate it before leaving, so take some of these tips to heart so that [...]
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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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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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It may be August, but if you’ve kept track of your work load from years past (and we know you have), you know that the end of the calendar year often becomes your busiest time as you and your clients wrap up accounts and “old business” for 2015. As such, you may want to consider [...]
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When considering management positions, you want someone who’s a good leader. We’ve all dealt with people in management or leadership roles who exemplified both sides of the coin, the best and the worst of leadership. So how do you identify a true leader to be promoted to manager?● They lead by example.Nobody wants to follow a [...]
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Looking at the available candidates for hire, you’ll see a wide array of ages – many companies have three different generations all working at the same place: baby boomers, Generation X, and Generation Y (usually referred to as millennials). These three groups grew up in extremely different times, and as such, they often approach work [...]
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