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If the baby boomers retiring left, right and center aren’t enough to convince you that today’s business environment is undergoing rapid change, take a look at all the new technology you have that you didn’t use 15 years ago. The modern workforce is fundamentally different. Mobility is the name of the game. The mutant offspring of the telecommuters of decades past, today’s mobile workforce is an internet-native, connected 24/7 by their smartphones, and empowered by budget airlines to fill in any gap. Only a hardheaded pundit would deny that the future will hold more home-offices, more smartphones, more …
So you want to attract the best candidates to your business, but you’re not sure where to draw the line between “good employer” and “outrageous over-spender.” Maybe you want enough applicants to have some choice, but you don’t want to spend hours filtering through incomplete and under-qualified submissions. Fear not. You can find and capture the best candidates by remembering three basic requirements: Compensation, recruitment, and selection. Compensation Compensation is sometimes left as an afterthought for the very end of the hiring process. That’s a mistake you shouldn’t make. Give due consideration to compensation as you …
Human resources is often thought of as the softer side of employee management and care. While supervisors and managers concentrate on the bottom line and on achieving specific objectives, human resource departments are traditionally assigned to employee-centric needs and regulations. But this is changing. More and more, HR is a strategic, intensive, outcomes-oriented profession. A human resource (HR) business plan typically includes areas like payroll, policies and procedures, employee relations, employee engagement, workplace investigations, health and welfare, recruitment and termination, time away from work, and much much more. One of the most important functions of an HR advisor is to …
There are few easy ways to break it to an employee that they’re being let go, but there are techniques that can help make the transition easier for everyone involved. The following 12 tips, however, won’t help you with that. Instead, they’re guaranteed to leave any former staff member fuming, put you at risk of countless lawsuits, and very possibly make sure that you’re the next one out the door. Don’t say we didn’t warn you.1. "Re: Downsizing—please clear your desks!" Firing an employee by email is fast, convenient, and almost completely devoid of …
Like it or not, not every decision or restructuring that an HR department pushes forward is going to be effective. Every now and then, something will go wrong. But failure doesn’t need to spell disaster. Indeed, the chance to bounce back from organizational failure is an opportunity to grow and become stronger. If you can teach your employees to understand how to recognize and recover from mistakes, your business will be all the more resilient because of it. How to Grow From Organizational Failure Everyone fails sometimes. Except for these guys. Flickr/pennstatelive Failure in and of itself is …
Every organization needs to recruit new employees from time to time. Hiring the right team can help the business grow and make things run smoothly. Hiring the wrong team can be a catastrophe. This post isn’t about either of those things. You’d be surprised how often businesses work hard to find the perfect person—only to fall flat on their faces and hire no one. Could they have made a recruiting mistake? Here are 11 awful recruiting strategies that you should definitely never try out: 1. Have a Recruiting Fair at a Ridiculous Time of Day To make things interesting, …
How to Know When Your HR Needs More Help Once you’ve figured out what roles your company needs to fill, you create a job description, post it to a few job boards, screen with cover letters and resumes, interview by phone and in-person, then hire the perfect candidate. Simple, right? Wrong. Dead wrong. If you’re only hiring for entry-level or low-skill positions, you might be able to squeak by with the bare minimum. But even then, you’re probably neglecting past applicants, people who speak English as a second (or seventh) language, the recent-grad market, walk-ins, referrals, headhunters, …
This week’s top HR news: Prepping for your fantasy football draft at work? Experts say that’s OK Who’s ready for some football? It’s that time of year again: Fantasy football is back! But don’t get too excited yet. Experts estimate the 22,000,000 fantasy football participants could cost their employees $6.5 billion this football season as they take time out of the workday to tweak their lineups and trash-talk their opponents. The firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas claims, however, that employers will not see any impact on their bottom line and should embrace fantasy football in the …
As the summer months come to a end, the weather changes, and kids start to go back to school, your team might start to grow restless. Maybe they miss having the munchkins around all the time. Or maybe they dread morning school bus battles and afternoon homework wars. To help employees who’ve caught a bad case of the "back to school blues," shrewd managers should takes steps to make sure the work environment is particularly engaging over the next few weeks. 1. Leverage the Competitive Element Little Bobby’s swimming competitions are all done for the year, so pushy parents …
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