No one enjoys performance reviews – neither managers nor workers. But when done well, they truly can help a supervisor...
Performance Review Strategies for the 2020s
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When It’s Raining Job Candidates
Before the pandemic struck, employers were struggling to find people to fill open positions. But the pandemic has...
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...
The Rise in the Minimum Wage and Your Temporary Workforce
The minimum wage rose to $13.50/hour in Los Angeles in July and will rise to $12/hour in Orange County in January. Couple this with the fact that it’s a hot candidates’ market today with unemployment in Los Angeles at 4.1 percent (in May) and in...
Are You STILL Focused on Finding the Perfect Candidate?!
As a hiring manager, are you looking for ways to screen people out instead of looking for ways to find the good in candidates? For example, if you notice a typo on a resume, do you automatically throw it into the proverbial “round file”? What about...
A To-Do List for Extending Job Offers
Have you ever extended an offer of employment to a job candidate only to find that the candidate then goes back to his employer and accepts a counter offer? We’ve all been there. But if we’d followed a pre-job-offer-extension checklist, the...
How to Use EI When Interviewing
As a recruiter or hiring manager, interviewing job candidates is a critical part of your job. If you’re a hiring manager interviewing potential employees for work in your department, your department’s success – as well as your own – relies on you...
Why EVERY Employee Needs Recognition
Do your employees feel recognized? As in seen by you? Thanked for their work on your behalf? Praised every now and then when warranted? Probably not: a recent survey found that 74 percent of workers in North America plan to switch jobs this...
Be a More “Visible” Recruiter, Attract More Candidates
Many job seekers don’t know how to find – let alone contact – recruiters, especially if they’re interested in looking for a new position while still working for their current employer. (Hello, lovely passive candidate!). In today’s...
Growing Young Talent into Great Leaders
You spent a lot of effort and funds to hire your younger team members, some of whom are actually phenomenal people and terrific at what they do for your company. And, yet….you lose them. Forty-two percent of young people (who are mostly millennials...
Does One Word Lead to True Employee Engagement?
How many of your employees like working for you? Probably not as many as you may think, and definitely far fewer than you would want: Gallup reports that worldwide, a full 67 percent of workers are “not engaged,” with 18 percent actually “are...
Is THIS Why the Candidate Said No to Your Job Offer?
Yours is a nice company filled with nice people who work hard and aim to do their best in their jobs. Your receptionists are pleasant. Your HR department is filled with people-persons. You feel your managers are professional and have great...
