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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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“But I Sent You An E-Mail About It!” Time To Reconsider Your E-Mail Etiquette
February 15, 2008 | Author: admin | Filed under: Careers
How often do you hear that? Not only are we missing communications, but many of people are getting sloppy with their e-mail. In the days of pen and paper letters, we never would have made the errors that we see daily on professional electronic correspondence.
When e-mail first hit the company I worked for, in 1994, my department was taken into an empty room. Jeff, our top IT guy paired us up, each partner holding one end of a sixteen foot rope. We stood across from each other with our ropes intersecting. Jeff took ten pieces of paper folded in half so they could hang on the rope. By now, I was feeling pretty ridiculous participating in yet another time wasting, corporate “team building” exercise. Jeff explained how e-mail moved throughout the LAN (local area network) sliding the pieces of paper across the ropes, some taking a turn to a new rope, some clogging up at an intersection.
Thirteen years later I’m glad I had participated in that drill. On top of that visual understanding of e-mail traffic, I remember Jeff’s instructions on e-mailing procedures and etiquette.
E-mail is not better than a conversation.
E-mail is not faster than a phone call.
E-mail will not replace #1 or #2.
Company e-mail is not private or a privilege.
Don’t put anything in an e-mail that you would not want your boss (spouse, children, best friend) to see.
Any e-mail that that goes back and forth more than three times probably needs a personal, two-way conversation either on the phone or in person.
The In-Box is not a filing cabinet. Read it, act on it, file it in a permanent file and delete it.
Here are a few more:
Change the “Subject” to reflect the new topic in a reply.
Don’t use “Emoticons” like 
in professional correspondence.
Spell out acronyms or cryptic abbreviations as in text messaging
Spell check and proof read, especially professional emails
Don’t send very personal e-mails on company e-mail. Even if deleted your message can be resurrected and may affect your career.
And the most important:
If it’s really important, time sensitive or getting heated, call don’t type.
Linda Henning- Image Works Publishing -www.imageworkspub.com
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Linda Henning began working for major printing companies in 1978, shortly after college. A major in Art and Graphic Design she moved from the paste-up department to the production department in 6 months. After 27 years printing other artists work, she jumped back into graphic design and creating original art in 2006. Linda’s art, sales, and business experience blend into an exciting and a versatile business in her Alaskan community. |
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