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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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The Secret Of The $64,000 Question - And How It Can Help You Be More Successful
February 18, 2008 | Author: admin | Filed under: Careers, Workplace Communication
The sixty four thousand dollar question The term ‘Sixty four thousand dollar question’, whilst attributable to a popular game show, actually comes from the memoirs of Andrew Carnegie, one of the most successful entrepreneurs and businessmen of the early part of the twentieth century in America.
He is reported to have employed a consultant to answer the question, ‘how can I become more successful?’.
The consultant took on the assignment, charging Carnegie a reported $64,000 for the answer. This was a huge amount of money at the time, and is not an inconsiderable sum now.
After two weeks of following Carnegie around, sitting in meetings, travelling with him, watching him work, seeing how he made decisions and so on, the consultant came back into see Andrew Carnegie and said ‘I now have the answer to the question how you can be more successful and it is this’. ‘Only do the most important things’ Carnegie sat for a moment expecting the consultant to continue, but the consultant simply repeated the expression - ONLY DO THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS - that is the key to how you can become more successful.
Carnegie thought little of it at the time, but later in his memoirs he said that was the best piece of advice that he ever paid for and was worth many times more than what he actually paid. When you go about your daily work activity and routine, the one question you need to keep asking yourself is - ‘Am I working on the most important things right now?’. If you can answer that question and say Yes, then the results and the productivity gains and benefits will come to you.
If the answer is No or Not Really, then stop what you are doing and move onto something that is the more important activity for you at that time. If, during your work day, you constantly move from one task to another as a butterfly flits from one flower to another, then this is counter-productive.
Each time you stop and start a task it takes a little bit of time. True, this may only be a couple of minutes to get the file out, access that part of the computer system or turn your attention to something else, but over the course of the day if we do that twenty or thirty times that will be the hour that we are looking to save, an hour that we could use productively if we just did things in a different sequence. Work through activities by batching them together, for example, for all your phone calls, all your letter writing, all the filing, meetings, etc, and then moving on until finished.
And above all else - FOCUS! - ‘Do less and achieve more’.
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