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Posts tagged: Modern Employee Qualities

What Qualities Should You REALLY Be Looking For in a Candidate?

  • October 12, 2022
  • Posted in News
Hiring a new employee is a huge deal, so you want to do everything in your power to get it right. In the past, you focused heavily on hard skills — i.e., job-specific abilities learned in school, training or in a similar position — but this hasn’t produced the best results. You want to do [...] Read More

Are These the Top Three Qualities of the Modern Employee?

  • September 21, 2016
  • Posted in News
Employees today aren’t the same as they were 10 or 20 years ago. Now that millennials are the largest group of professionals in the workforce, the definition of the modern employee has shifted. These people have different work styles, values and goals, so keep them happy by finding out what drives them. Top Three Qualities [...] Read More