Successful hiring involves attracting the right talent for your organization. This doesn’t just happen while you’re recruiting. It’s a full-time effort. Building a dynamic team means developing a positive employer brand, ensuring that your reputation is strong enough to secure the best candidates. A well-manicured employer brand helps your cause at every step of the way. You receive more […]
Read MoreThere are significant benefits to building a multi-generational workforce. You get to take advantage of different kinds of life experience, while simultaneously tapping into a wide variety of markets. By hiring people from multiple age brackets, you can draw on a more representative cross-section of the population. At the same time, you can create a more innovative and creative response team. To get there, […]
Read MoreAh, your dream job. Hobby blogger. Pro golfer. Margarita tester. Everyone has a vision of what they would love to get paid to do all day. So, what makes answering questions about your dream job such a hard part of an interview? Well, it’s challenging because you know your interviewers have a particular criteria in mind when they ask the […]
Read MoreThe COVID-19 outbreak has set off a series of dramatic social changes. Face masks have become unexpected fashion items. The simple act of eating in a restaurant has become a nostalgic luxury. Families have started to get to know each other much, much better. The coronavirus has also changed our daily vocabulary. Terms like “social distancing” and “pandemic” […]
Read MoreWhy should we hire you? It seems so simple, so straightforward. Why does it somehow feel like a trick question? In part, the question feels complicated because it’s so blatant. It cuts right through any chit-chat and gets right at the core reason for a job interview. It compresses the conversation to its basic essence. As a result, it […]
Read MoreIf you don’t already have an employee appreciation program in place, 2020 presents the perfect opportunity to start. A New Year, a new way to improve relationships with your team members. You might consider an official employee appreciation program unnecessary. However, a more formalized process can lead to better results and a less haphazard approach. […]
Read MoreYour job search paid off. You received an offer. However, the process isn’t finished yet. There are still some questions you want to ask yourself before deciding whether to accept the position. It’s great that all your hard work and hustle culminated in a job offer. Take a minute to celebrate, but only a minute. […]
Read MoreIt has happened again. One of your best employees slipped sheepishly into your office to let you know that they have decided to take a position somewhere else. Why do you keep losing them? Why do your employees keep leaving? High turnover adds unnecessary expense. You have to launch costly recruitment and training programs to […]
Read MoreCareers within the Information Technology (IT) sector may seem to rely on some of the hardest of hard skills. IT is an insular field, dependent on very specific knowledge. However, like any industry, you won’t get ahead with just the baseline knowledge required to do your day-to-day job. You’ll need to cultivate soft skills in […]
Read MoreEvery employee has a unique blend of strengths and weaknesses. They each bring different skills to bear and draw on a different well of experiences. Separately, each employee will produce the same type of work over and over again. But put them together, and those skills and experiences act as multipliers. They can enhance each […]
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