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Using Recruitment Metrics in Getting the Right Candidate
October 28, 2008
A company’s main asset is its workforce. It goes without saying that when a company needs people, it needs to get the right people. Otherwise, productivity would be compromised and expenditures increased. As it is the HR department’s responsibility to hire people for the company, it is their job to protect the company from these possible losses. The HR recruitment staff cannot just accept nor discard applicants without just measure. Thus, recruitment metrics comes about.
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Are You Spending Too Much Time Focusing Recruiting Or Retaining?
October 28, 2008
Companies spend too much time focusing recruiting rather than on retaining.
The rule is no longer if your employees leave it is now when will they going to leave. How many times have you spent hundreds to thousands of dollars in hiring and training an employee only to discover that they leave.
Why do they leave? Experts in this field will say because…
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Management Training - The Dirty Little Secrets
October 26, 2008
I am often asked if training really works. The answer is yes and no! Here’s why.
Sometimes, unless a training is made mandatory, those who need it the most will choose not to attend!
75% of the learning goes on after the employee comes back to the job. Said another way–employees will forget most of what they learned unless it is reinforced on the job after they come back from training.
Too often people are sent off to training in the hopes that they will get “fixed” when in fact if the training doesn’t incorporate good adult learning principles and isn’t seen as relevant from the trainee’s point of view, it will fail.
Employees are sometimes sent to training for specific skills when the real problem is attitude…ahem…I mean lack of professional behavior problems. -
Why Would a Business Want to Use a Temp Agency
October 24, 2008
Companies may wonder why they should hire an hr consulting firm, i.e., a temp agency, to locate quality employees.
In a highly competitive corporate world, knowledgeable help can mean the difference between a constant influx of clients and bankruptcy. Statistically speaking, every disgruntled customer that leaves your establishment equals seven or more people who won’t give you a chance based on word of mouth.
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Sexual Harassment Training
October 23, 2008
Sexual harassment is defined as unwelcome advances, verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature, seeking sexual favors, or inappropriate sexual interference of a person’s workplace or work performance.
What Law Says
Legally, sexual harassment is a violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 - it is a form of a sexual discrimination. The act applies to a workplace where more than 15 employees work; this includes local, state, and federal workplaces as well as private sector businesses.
Part of doing business in civilized society requires that all employees have an understanding of responsibility in regards to appropriate behavior in the workplace. Harassment of a sexual nature can be curbed substantially-if not entirely eliminated-from the workplace by having complete and adequate knowledge and training.
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Hiring Expats For Work
October 19, 2008
Anyone engaged in business today recognizes the rising costs of labor as one of the major hindrances to expansion. While there are several ways that this issue is being addressed, one of the most viable is by hiring expat workers.
There are numerous advantages of having expats in your workforce. The first is that they are not difficult to find. There are now, in such countries as New Zealand Canada, Japan, the United States, several thriving expat communities. Undoubtedly there are also several more in other nations.
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Did You Really Mean to Hit Send?
February 2, 2008 | Author: admin | Filed under: Workplace Communication
Email is dangerous. It can do everything from destroying relationships to ruining careers.
That probably sounds a little over the top, but I’m serious. Here are three reasons why, and what you can do to prevent them.
1. Beware the Frantic Forwarder
This is the person who is seemingly compelled to forward your email on to the exact person it shouldn’t go to.
It’s usually not out of malicious intent. In fact, often it’s a case of a long email chain where your indiscretion is way down at the end. The Frantic Forwarder probably didn’t even read that far. But you can be sure that the client you disparaged will read it when it lands in his in-box from the Frantic Forwarder.
I can attest personally to the power of the Frantic Forwarder, having been caught by it back when I was Director of a professional services organization. One of our clients received a forwarded email that originated with me. Since I was rather emphatically stating that I needed to be out of the discussion loop with that client about his technical support problem, he didn’t think too much of what he was reading. Out of context? Absolutely; my being in the middle was slowing things down. Really dumb on my part? You betcha!
2. Don’t get caught by the Miserable Mis-Addresser
The automatic filling-in of email addresses by your email software, or your own mis-typing, has enormous potential to create truly appalling political mistakes.
The Miserable Mis-Addresser also trips up those who write furious or sarcastic email rebuttals, intending to delete without sending, but then (usually on automatic pilot) clicking “send” anyway.
If you’re going to use that technique for venting your frustration, do yourself a favor: clear out all “to,” “cc,” or “bcc” addresses before you type a single word of the message.
If you’re relying on autofill to complete email addresses for you, be very sure that it’s selected the correct person. It has an uncanny ability to pick the exact wrong person for whatever you’re writing. And it’s not always consistent in who it picks, either - have you noticed that? (If not, I wonder who your emails have gone to by mistake?)
3. Watch for the Email Examiner
Office email is not private. Not only does the law require many organizations to keep all email in case of lawsuits or other legal action, but email can also be scanned by nosy IT people, by HR representatives conducting internal investigations, or by pretty much any senior manager.
Any email you send or receive, whether to a co-worker complaining about your boss or from your best friend planning a wild birthday party, is subject to being read by someone else. Believe it.
My brother is a lawyer who has done a lot of work reviewing email for corporate lawsuits (you’d recognize the companies if he or I could tell you). He’s consistently amazed at the things he reads - most of them having nothing to do with the lawsuit he’s researching.
Avoiding trouble in all three of these situations is simple: don’t send anything by email that you wouldn’t happily print and hang on the lunch-room wall.
So what was your biggest email mistake, and what did you learn from it? Drop me a line and let me know!
“I have no life, just e-mail.” Michael Jantze, 1962 - , American author/artist and creator of “The Norm” daily comic strip
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(c)Grace L. Judson Helping professionals who loathe corporate politics and want to lead with integrity and compassion. About the Author I’m Grace Judson, the founder of and driving force behind Svaha Concepts. Feeling trapped between your career goals and your loathing for “playing politics”? You can remain true to your values and integrity and still be politically savvy. For more information or to access my free resources (including my free workbook “The Five Deadly Shoulds of Office Politics that Maul, Mangle, and Murder Careers (and what to do about them),” please visit Svaha Concepts’ website. |
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