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Canada Ready to Roll: Marijuana Becomes Legal in October

Canada’s Cannabis Act—making recreational marijuana legal—will take effect on October 17, 2018. The country’s federal parliament passed the measure on June 19, 2018, and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau quickly announced the new law’s effective date. Medically prescribed marijuana had previously been legalized.

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Basics of Prioritization at Work

It’s a familiar feeling to most: being overwhelmed at work. There are competing obligations coming from multiple sources within the company, and everything seems urgent.

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Jobseekers Want High-Tech, High-Touch Experiences When Applying to Your Company

If your company is still using paper job applications, then chances are you’re losing top talent before they’ve even finished filling out their names. According to new research released by ManpowerGroup Solutions, jobseekers want a technology-friendly job experience from the first touch all the way through the interview process.

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Tight Labor Market Gives Way to Succession Planning at All Levels

Succession planning is a great strategy for filling roles left by retiring employees, but due to a skills shortage across many industries, employers are using succession planning to help fill their immediate talent shortage needs.

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Helping Employees Deal with Toxic Customers

Anyone who has worked in customer service knows that some customers can be extremely difficult, demanding, and even toxic. These customers can be abusive to customer service staff.

Having Trouble Finding Top Talent? Try These Tips for Talent Retention, Instead

As we’ve previously reported, counteroffers to retain workers can backfire, leading the employee to leave your company within 2 years of receiving a raise. If you’re having trouble recruiting new workers to your company, try improving your talent retention strategy to keep your workers from jumping ship.

Is Your Company Ready for the Era of Intelligent Automation?

The age of Intelligent Automation (IA), defined as artificial intelligence combined with process automation technology, is becoming increasingly realistic as new advances to devices and software become commonplace in our professional and personal lives. This quickly approaching era will see the use of robotic process automation (RPA), artificial intelligence and advanced analytics technologies to automate […]