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Employee Onboarding Best Practices
Your employee recruitment and retention strategy should begin with onboarding. Make sure your new hire orientation includes these best practices.
Tips for Getting the Candidate Experience Right
It’s a job seeker’s market, but the ball is in your court to provide an exceptional candidate experience. Here’s how to make it a competitive advantage.
Giving Yourself a Recruiting Degree
No college offers a recruiting degree or one in sourcing. Although there are some very good training programs available, most of what recruiters learn, they pick up on the job. One of the most important parts of recruiting is sourcing candidates....
Performance Review Strategies for the 2020s
No one enjoys performance reviews – neither managers nor workers. But when done well, they truly can help a supervisor gauge a person’s progress, or lack thereof. Here are a few strategies to use to make your performance reviews as effective as...
When It’s Raining Job Candidates
Before the pandemic struck, employers were struggling to find people to fill open positions. But the pandemic has changed that in many respects. There were almost seven million jobs available in October (latest figures available), but in November...
Best Practices for Hiring a Diverse Workforce
To hire a more diverse workforce, you need to start by taking a step back and looking at your hiring process from start to finish, from advertising an open position to onboarding. You need to look at everyone who will come into contact with the job...
On the Lookout: Recruitment Trends for This Year and Beyond
Technology and the competition for talent are changing the recruiting landscape significantly. Artificial intelligence and data analytics are giving recruiters powerful tools to locate, evaluate and communicate with job candidates. These digital...
Follow These Steps to Create a Great Apprentice Program
Companies are constantly complaining that they cannot find enough qualified people to fill all of their openings, saying that job candidates just don’t have the skills that are needed. A survey earlier this year revealed that the problem is worse...
When Terminating an Employee Remotely
Remote work requires an organized, purposeful approach to the employee experience — including how you let workers go. The world has changed. Remote work is no longer an occasional perk — it’s a permanent fixture. But remote work isn’t just lift and...
Why a Flexible Workforce is No Longer a “Want” But a “Need”
Used to be, many employers used temporary workers, independent contractors or freelancers only sporadically, such as during employee illness, leaves of absence or during the holiday season. But things have changed – savvy employers now use these...
Manager, Heal Thyself of Unconscious Bias
We all exhibit unconscious bias whenever we interact with others. In fact, psychologists have catalogued many different types of cognitive biases that filter our perception of the environment. But, once we are aware of these biases, we can be alert...