Strategies for Rejecting Employees
When an employer or business posts a job listing, they may receive dozens, hundreds, and even thousands of responses. While the majority of these applicants will be unqualified, a handful will be brought in for one or more interviews. Still, only one person can get the job, and telling the other applicants, some of whom may have made it deep into the interview/hiring process, will need to be told that they did not get the job.
How to Attract Qualified Candidates to Your Job Opening
As the economy recovers, businesses are more eager to hire employees. But unemployment is coming down from what were record levels, and America’s workforce is eager to apply for any job, regardless of qualifications. What can an employer do to attract qualified candidates with the right skill set and experience to their openings.
Major Training Requirements in Business Organizations
Training is vital in business organizations, and the role of training is to help new recruits and existent staff to acquire the skills and knowledge required in the workplace, and to perform their job functions.
A Project Executive Summary Gone Wrong Can Hurt Your Business
Employers, entrepreneurs, board members, most people in the top rungs of managing an organization have a premium on time. Consequently it becomes second nature of top management to go after the substance and ignore what they perceive as inconsequential in most situations.
Efficiently Managing Job Queries
For most employers the process of posting a job online is pretty straightforward. The online job forums are designed to be user friendly, and in most cases they are easy to use.
Quick Tip on Finding the Perfect Hire
I know an effective job posting trick that most people don't.
Ninety percent of the people who apply to a job posting on, say, Craigslist, will probably be wildly unqualified. The biggest challenge is to filter out the spam.
Q & A about Job Posting
"How do you effectively and efficiently go through the responses you get in order to hire (or place) the best people?"
Does the Affordable Care Act Make Businesses Less Likely to Hire?
The majority of accounting professionals surveyed (66%) feel that their business clients will hire less under ObamaCare, where only 2% feel that the Affordable Health Care Act will catalyze bringing on new hires - On a separate note, survey respondents also feel that business owners are less optimistic about hiring now than they were approximately 4 months ago in March of this year.
Retaining the Best Talent for Your Organization
Top talent is difficult to find and extremely expensive for an organization to replace. Human resources departments are often engaged in generalized activities targeted to address overall employee turnover. In fact the subject of overall employee turnover is brought up frequently at decision tables by the HR because it has been extensively studied, and there are known tools and solutions that can be implemented. This gives the HR department some space to work within known parameters and to work with known tools.
Differentiating Constructive Feedback from Positive Feedback as a Tool for Employee Motivation
In regular office workspaces, employers and managers use a combination of constructive and positive feedback as a tool for enhancing employee motivation – because this is the combination that works best. However, a regular use of such combinations also dulls perceptions as to the difference between constructive and positive feedback, and which has priority in a given situation.
Why Your Management Hates the HR, and What You Can Do about It
Everything that happens in an organization, whether the outcome of a single or multiple processes, shares a fundamental model made up of inputs, throughputs and outputs.
Capping the Generation Gaps in Your Workplace
I’ll admit something at the very beginning of this article, and request you to keep in mind that generalizations are not absolutes and do not work for each individual. However, for the sake of understanding things quickly, we do need to make generalizations, and more so, when a concept needs to be delivered within the short span of an article.
Choose Your Interview Questions Wisely to Select the Right Candidate
A rule of thumb that applies to all types of interview is that interviewers should speak no more than 20 per cent of the time, interviewees the rest.
Planned Interviews and Unplanned Interviews
The disadvantages of the planned interview are few compared to the disadvantages of the unplanned interview.
Enhancing Productivity in a Post-Recession Scenario
With the recession and changes and optimization and cost cutting, the question of productivity and maintaining productivity has become a confusing one – something less defined than it used to be at the time of conveyor belts and when there were no computers or virtual workplaces.
Using an Extended Marketing Mix to Promote Employer Value Propositions
An essential strategy for employers facing a talent crunch, whether as a start-up or as a large venture, is to project the organization as an employer of choice. And this is done through an extended marketing mix though HR departments usually adopt quite a different approach to solving the problem.
All That You Job Seekers Must Know about the Crisis of Individuality
"My father was a man who went through life selling off little bits of himself until there was nothing left. Then they just threw away the husk. Willy Loman! I told myself I'd never, never get into that spot. And now here I am." Those are the words of a woman in anguish over the realization that ten years has wedged her firmly into a monotonous dead-end job that, as she puts it, could be done by a zombie.
4 Simple Strategies for Retaining Your Best Employees
After having done your best and having gone through the grueling experience of screening and sifting through candidates and interviews to find the best matches for your company, you might feel a bit relieved. You are perfectly justified to feel relieved to have hired the best. However, there is no room for complacency, because the moment you hire the best, and from the moment they walk into your company, you need to start thinking about how to retain them.
10 Best Practices for Small Business Recruiting
What do you do when you are not an employer of choice? Most businesses start small, and they face this critical question. The answer lies in developing better recruiting practices. Regrettably, most data and research available focus on the recruiting practices of large companies, just because small companies struggling on their feet are rarely worth the time of researchers.
The Essential Guide to Conducting a Successful Candidate Interview
In this article we talk about the essential things that need to be done to conduct a successful interview.