Summary: Some companies are hesitant to do background checks on potential employees due to potential cost or privacy issues. Don’t make this mistake in your company.
Summary: Are you finding that certain employees seem to be taking more than their share of sick days? Find out what you can do in this situation.
Summary: How can you easily build a good Human Resources department in your company?
Summary: Understanding what college students and recent graduates want will give you a much better chance of hiring them.
Summary: There are many means and methods that employers can use to communicate. Learn why communicating benefits properly is so important.
Every person aims at establishing a successful career. The turning point for any individual is when choose a career you wish to pursue. People spend most of their education focusing to establish a good career for their future. While education plays an important role, consider the competition you may encounter in your chosen field. You may need to focus on personal and professional self-improvement with all the nuances this can mean. The minute you figure out ways to improve your career, you’ll find your professional prospects increase.
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.
