Is the candidate you are considering the right person for your job? Due to haphazard hiring procedures many small businesses have a 20% chance of hiring the best person. Considering how expensive and time consuming it is to hire employees, those are not good odds.
Expanding your business to include outside employees can be a daunting task for business owners. When you hire someone you take on added responsibility. Yet you are also taking an important step in moving beyond being self-employed.
How would you feel about a higher retention rate in your organization? I don’t know about you, but I can’t think of a single HR exec I know who would turn that down. In fact, employee retention is without a doubt one of the most intense challenges facing most human resources departments.
McKeown provides four tips for hiring great people: 1) Forget trying to ask magic bullet questions, 2) Ensure you have clearly defined what it will take to be successful in the position, 3) Test candidates, and 4) Include others in the hiring process.
Ultimately, absenteeism is a huge financial drain on a company’s bottom line with the indirect costs often exceeding the direct costs. In this article, I will reveal why absenteeism remains a persistent problem for organizations, despite the fact that many have clear and well thought out policies in place. I will show you how to promote a culture of attendance and explain why a strategy of proactive absence management is key to the successful eradication of absenteeism.
When people think of internships, they generally focus on all the benefits that the intern gains. Leadership skills, industry knowledge, and a base network are all great benefits for the intern. But what about all the great things that an intern can offer your company in return? Here are some tips on how to best utilize internships for your company.
When people think of internships, they generally focus on all the benefits that the intern gains. Leadership skills, industry knowledge, and a base network are all great benefits for the intern. But what about all the great things that an intern can offer your company in return? Here are some tips on how to best utilize internships for your company.
Compassionate care is a benefit for employees needing to take a temporary leave to care for a gravely ill family member who has a significant risk of death within six months. While both the federal and provincial governments provide job-protected compassionate care leave for workers, many organizations are going a step further by implementing top-up compassionate care leave policies in order to provide comfort to employees while boosting engagement and retention at work.
How often do we hear the term, “working fathers?” Work-life balance and flexibility issues have traditionally been regarded as “women’s issues.” However, studies show that more and more men and fathers are seeking balance and facing the great stigma around fatherhood that still exists in our society and workplaces.
“We need to change the conversation on fatherhood in the workplace,” said Cameron Phillips, founder and president of Bettermen Solutions and self-described “dadvocate.”
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