Articles in Home | Business | Human Resources Compensation (2) Diversity (2) Employee Relations (43) Labor Relations (1) Title|Newest|Oldest How to Avoid Getting Fired  By : Lee Alderon Here is a list of things you should keep in mind when working in an office. How you act around the office can make or break your career. Employee Time Keeping Made Easy - Online DTR Software is the Key!  By : Mich Taylor Online DTR Software provides accurate information for the time clock of each employees' as with their status - present or absent; and, with the significance of calculating work hours and its rate for the payroll system. What role does human resource management play in a business?  By : William This article explains the role of the human resources function in the management of a business. Finding trustworthy buyers and sellers in online trade  By : William This article offers tips on how to find trustworthy buyers and reliable sellers while operating a business online. Multiple Scopes for Freelance Jobs  By : S. Geetha The Internet has revolutionized the way we work and it paved a way for generating thousands of freelance jobs all over the globe cutting across the borders. Managing Human Capital for Long-Term Success  By : HuntPartners The past couple of years have seen a downturn in the economy coupled with uncertainties arising from downsizing and sudden acquisitions and mergers. Psychosocial Factors: Creating a Well-Balanced Work Environment  By : Dakotta Today, stress at the workplace has become a big problem. Taking a closer look at the roll of employees, training procedures, productivity expectations, and the number of tasks employees are supposed to accomplish each day can help you pinpoint areas of improvement. This article stresses on various steps you need to take to reduce stress at workplace Understanding and Applying HR - Recruiting Metrics  By : Dakotta This artilce talks about how to best use HR recruiting metrics to measure new hire quality or hiring manager satisfaction. this information could be very valuable in explaining changes that need to take place in the recruiting system or simply offer ways to make a good system even better. Why Does the Honeymoon End? (New Hire Evaluations)  By : Dakotta It can happen to any recruiter at any time, seasoned or new. Hiring an employee who turns out to be less than what you expected is a pitfall of the human resources field. When this happens, you will begin processing what has happened by asking yourself what went wrong in the recruiting process, how might a person who is less qualified slip through the cracks? Were they misleading? Did you miss important signs? BRINGING INNOVATIVE THINKERS INTO THE FOLD  By : Dakotta ‘Innovative’ is a buzz word in recruiting lately, but where are the ‘innovative’ people and why aren’t you interviewing them? The Secret Handshake: Why Networking is Vital  By : Dakotta This article emphasizes that networking is the most important activity for a job-seeker to get a handle on to achieve success while searching for a job. Who Are You?  By : Declan Jones You are your business.You know what you do and why.You know where you’re planning to go, and you know the hurdles your business will need to jump over to get there. You know who you are, but do job candidates? Developing a brand is an important part of business today. What is a brand? It’s an image, a mission, and a purpose. It includes less tangible things as well, such as your current employees views and opinions and how your business is perceived in the marketplace. The Interview  By : Declan Jones You’re hired. Despite the time and work leading up to those words, it cumulates in one hour, with one manager and one candidate. That decision can result in a wonderful addition to your company, or be the biggest mistake you’ve ever made. There are ways to prepare for this potential life-changing interview. Start by delving into the past. Each job in each company is about so much more than technical skills and knowledge. Use the interview process to evaluate past performance and fit with your business’s environment and company culture. Our Customers, Our Focus  By : Declan Jones Here are four things we focus on to keep our customers coming back.1. Learn the job. We find out what you’re looking for, and it goes beyond the job description. Basic skills and prior experience are easy to define, and if we search just those requirements, you’d have hundreds of potential candidates. In addition to skills, we want to know what it takes to be successful in this position. Why does a person really need five years of prior experience? Why would a top-level candidate want to work there? What is special about this job, about your business? The answers might not be on the tip of your tongue, but we’ll help you find them. Once we have the less tangible aspects of the job, we’ll have a better chance of finding the right person quickly. Remember, you are looking for someone to do the job, not to just impress you with a hefty list of skills. Here are four things we focus on to keep our customers coming back...2. Oral Communication Skills- FAST  By : Declan Jones Talking to each other is something we do everyday. You converse with strangers, friends and associates. However, when placed in an uncomfortable situation, how do people react?That is what you need to find out before making the choice on which candidate is right foryou. How To Get Good Employees - FAST  By : Declan Jones Getting you the right person at the right time is critical. Neither of us wants the hiring process to drag, nor do we want to sift through hundreds of people who don’t meet your qualifications. That’s why it’s important for us to know what you’re looking for. Here are four things you can do to speed up the process and get the right person for your business. How Personal Should You Get?  By : Declan Jones Personality has an obvious effect on performance and how well a new employee fits with the culture and environment of your business. You may even have specific personality factors defined for key positions. Does that mean a test can you give you the answer about which candidate is best? Hiring in Today’s Market  By : Declan Jones Remember when hiring an employee involved advertising in a newspaper or trade publication?In return, you received envelopes or faxes, something you could hold in your hand, something you could compare to the nearly identical one on your desk in the last fifteen years, the way nearly every company does business changed.The internet became the primary source for posting jobs and reviewing candidates Finding The Best Person For The Job  By : Declan Jones Did you ever hire an employee only to find out they exaggerated their skills? Maybe they were very talented in using a specialized computer system, but it wasn’t the one you have? Once they’re in the door, bad employees are notoriously hard to get rid of. Documentation, interviews, investigations, lawyer fees, it takes time and money that could be better spent growing your business. Filling The Unique Job  By : Declan Jones All companies have them. Jobs unique to their business, a combination of tasks to be performed in a unique way, one that works just right for you. These are the jobs that have become specialized as your business grew. These are the jobs where you utilized and expanded on the individual talents of the people employed in them. Now one of these special people are leaving and you’re left with a position that is hard to fill. Creativity in Finding Candidates  By : Declan Jones Do you know how many ways there are to find candidates? We do. Do you know how important they are in filling more jobs with fewer people? We do. Do you need to know the answers to these questions? No, but we do.Finding the right person at the right time is our specialty. In this day of technology, there are many methods of locating candidates. There are online application systems, resume-tracking software, job listings, web sites specializing in hard-to-find talent, chat rooms and forums. That’s to name just a few. Stressful Workplace? Time To Take The Responsibility To Change Things  By : Martin Haworth Stress is the most common cause of absenteeism in the workplace and it's on the increase. Still there are ways for you to minimise it. So, is it time to change the way you work, where you work, or how you work? Let's take a look at the options. Some Facts About The International Business Brokers Association  By : T J Madigan The International Business Brokers Association (IBBA) today has more than one thousand six hundred fifty cooperative business brokers and intermediaries across Australia, Europe, Asia, Mexico, and the United States. How Can They Meet Your Expectations If They Don't Know What They Are?  By : Paul Phillips Managing people can sometimes be very rewarding and sometimes frustrating. If we look back we may find the rewarding times were when people met, or exceeded, our expectations. Sometimes they did this without even knowing what they were! How can we make this happen more often? Standard Format for Your Separation Notice  By : Kevin Muir Whether you are firing your problem employee or laying off workers because of downsizing, you must give each worker a formal separation notice. It is a crucial part of the termination process. And while every termination is different, all separation notices should follow a similar format. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

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