Employer Articles
When it comes time to choose the wording and details of your job posting, it can make or break the success of the posting itself. Here are some tips to help you improve your chances of getting it seen and increasing your exposure to the right candidates on Hound.
As a leader/boss, you must inspire loyalty among your employees, or you will face a constant drain of resources on training personnel who leave your organization too soon after their training on the job. Inspiring loyalty among your employees helps lower the chances that they leave your company for a better offer or use your company as a stepping stone to better pastures.
We live today in a world where people often try to get away with anything as long as it is making a profit. “This is business”, you might hear them say; or, “all is fair in love and war”. Very often ethics are sacrificed at the altar of profit. Some think that business generated by bending unwritten moral laws is okay because it makes a profit.
A leader will always get more loyalty and productivity from his people (in this case, employees) than a boss. Hence, today the focus of most organizations is how to get bosses to work as leaders. This sounds difficult, but it is not. If you look closely, there are actually three aspects you need to focus on to emerge a leader and replace the boss attitude.
Appraisals are meant to measure the effectiveness of employees in their jobs. They give both the employee and the employer a clear picture of what needs to be done to optimize productivity. Here are five tips you can use to ensure that you can use staff appraisals as excellent motivation tools to improve productivity at the workplace.
To be successful in driving your company to achieve its goals and mission, you need to know how to keep the productivity levels at the optimum levels. As the boss, you should be able to make your employees give their best consistently. However, it is not as easy as it sounds. Here are 5 smart strategies that will help you optimize the productivity of your team:
The recent recession has taught many employers how to work with a sparser workforce. Employers and employees alike have learned that more can be done with fewer people. If you are planning to hire, here is a checklist that will help you find the right candidate:
As the manager, you will come across many employees who clash with one another so seriously that it impacts productivity. You need to intervene to ensure that you continue to get the best out of your employees. Here are a few tips that will help you when you face such situations:
Most organizations have rules about personal phone calls, using the internet for personal purposes such as Facebook, personal emails, etc. Yet there is little in the rules and regulations about texting. Normally, texting is better than talking on the phone as it is less disruptive. However, if it is done in excess, it might affect productivity. Therefore, you need to find ways to keep it in balance. Here are a few tips to guide you in this task:
Conducting an interview is not easy. It takes a lot of preparation to be able to ask the right questions and not to be intimidated by anyone who stares right back at you during an interview. Did you know that very often the interviewer is as apprehensive about the interview as the interviewee?
It is quite difficult to be the boss because the buck stops at you. It is even more difficult to be a great boss. Yet, unless you are one you will not be able to get the best out of your employees. The good news is that it is not as difficult as you would think. Here are 5 factors that will get you there:
Most employers do not want to fire someone, not only on humane grounds, but also because they have invested in them considerably both in terms of training and money to get an employee that will perfectly fit their needs. However, there are times when you should fire an employee or suffer unpleasant fallout. Here are a few signs that say it is time you let this employee go:
The virtual world can be very intimidating and vast to someone who does not know his way around. Just as job seekers are sometimes lost in a sea of job listings, recruiters sometimes find themselves at a loss when it comes to finding the right candidate. Very often, when they post a listing they are flooded by thousands of automatic alerts that match their listing to the available database – but very few match their requirements. How can you word a job listing so that you attract the right candidate?
These are troubled times and the employment market is not what it was used to be. Due to many companies cutting down on cost, there is a lot of exceptional talent "going cheap" today. Many recruiters are faced with the option of hiring overqualified candidates. Should you do it? Is an overqualified (and over-experienced) candidate good for your organization? There are advantages and disadvantages to this decision; let us look at both sides and find out whether this is an advantage or disadvantage.
Every company wants to be the best. In most cases, this is a matter of survival, because when you are not best, you are easily pushed out of the market and left to die. To be the best you need to increase the quality and quantity of productivity among your employees.
What makes some companies so popular with their employees that they will give 100% to their job and never think of leaving? There are a few things that score very high with employees and keep them motivated and loyal for life. Here are a few perks that help keep employees motivated and loyal:
Companies spend thousands of dollars in training their employees and providing them with the experience required to become valuable employees – and when it comes time to reap the benefits, the best talent quits, leaving you in the lurch. Now, you have to start from ground zero again – search for the person, train and orient him on the job and so on. This takes time, money and effort. How do you prevent such disasters?
Women lead a tough life because they generally feel as responsible for maintaining and caring for their families as they do for their jobs and careers. That puts the women into the seat of working two jobs for life – one of which has no holidays or leave. As an employer of the 21st century you should strive to help women to give 100% to their jobs without sacrificing the quality time they spend with their family.
Finding new employees for your company isn’t always easy, especially when you’re getting hundreds or even thousands of applications. Asking the right questions will help you find the best candidates for whatever positions you are trying to fill. The latest trend is asking interviewees brain teaser questions that had nothing to do with the role they’re applying for. This is a waste of time and should be avoided altogether. Instead, you should focus on picking the applicant’s brain. According to an audit done by Google, there is no correlation between candidates answering brainteasers and how well they can perform a job. So it’s a horrible way to try and predict the candidate’s attributes. Instead, you should focus on behavioral questions and then evaluating the answers that you receive.
When it comes to growing your business successfully, it's all about who you hire and who you keep on board. There are multiple reasons why it's a good idea to retain your employees, rather than hiring new candidates. Back in 2013, more employers were taking the initiative to raise compensation for current employees (72% of employers) and new hires (47% of employers). Out of that number 70% of employers reported that increasing salaries was a good way to retain talented employees. Fifty-eight percent of employers said that increasing compensation lead to better benefits. Let's take a look at some of the other reasons why retaining your employees is a good idea and how you can retain them.
