Plus, 7 Essential Employee Onboarding Strategies That Will Attract and Retain Your Best Team Ever As unemployment creeps ever more downward, employers are asking: “What else can we do to keep our best people?” Here’s the answer: Employee...
Giving negative employee feedback is one of the keys to business growth. Everyone makes mistakes. No one performs perfectly. Everyone can improve. So – learn how to give constructive feedback in a way that empowers employees. Here are 7 ways to give negative feedback that your
5 Under-the-Surface Hiring Mistakes That Will Erode Your Company Culture and Growth There was a great column recently written by A.J. Mirabedini, the CEO of GKIC, a small-business marketing training company. A.J. offers the wisdom of experience, revealing several...
How to Fill Your Most Crucial Positions While Having More Free Time Irony is a funny thing. We want the economy to do well, because that means our businesses will grow. But now that businesses are growing, unemployment is super low. And low unemployment means it’s a...
Are employee referrals an effective way to hire? This question comes up a lot. The idea is to leverage your employees’ networks and get referrals to candidates they already know are qualified. The advantages of referral-based hiring are obvious. Fewer unknowns, easier...
5 Secrets to Making Your Job Descriptions Compel People to Apply
What do you really care about when hiring someone? Is it their degree, or their work ethic? Their previous experience, or how well they get along with people? Of course degrees and experience matter. But lots of people have them. That’s the easy part of hiring. All...
Why Does Hiring Have to Take So Long? Short answer: It doesn’t! Sad answer: For most companies today, it’s getting worse. Scary answer: Your company is at risk of falling into the Unfilled Positions Vortex. According to a well-known Glassdoor study, the average...
Employees want to be appreciated, and you can never do it too much. Find some time this month to thank and appreciate your staff. The more personalized, the better. If you don’t know them well enough to thank them for specific accomplishments or character qualities,...
Employers hate them. Job-seekers hate them. But for some reason, everyone continues to treat resumes as the primary gateway to hiring. Take a look at just a few of the reasons no one likes resumes. Employers hate resumes because… It’s too hard to find relevant...
