Company Culture and Job Descriptions
The way your job description is written is part of your company’s culture and can influence who applies.
Author: Florence Richard
Puzzle Solvers Wanted
Asking job seekers to solve complicated puzzles may not provide all the insight you need into skills and ability, but the exercise serves other purposes.
Where Business and IT Students Want to Work
Business and IT students, those soon-to-be grads you seek, have employer preferences, and these preferences may surprise you.
How to Recruit and Maintain More Women in Your Workplace
What do women want in the workplace? Of course, the answer depends on the individual. However, more companies are focusing on attracting and maintaining women with significant payoffs. Here’s a run-down of strategies that seem to resonate:
Training Supervisors to Avoid Termination-Based Lawsuits
Guess what? People don’t like to be fired. Who should they blame? For sure, they will not blame themselves. Once they settle on a reason, like discrimination or retaliation, those “l’m-going-to-sue!” juices start flowing.
How to Curate a Remote Work Culture of Transparency, Open Communication, and Accountability
So many of the fears about remote work come from it being seen as opaque. Not physically seeing people working holds a lot of managers back from embracing remote work.
A Guide to Hiring Talent for Business Process Outsourcing
Gone are the days when customers would call customer support for every conventional technical issue or generic problem. Today online help and self-service channels cover the basics, only complicated issues or specific questions are directed to the customer center reps. The help and support team has to be prepared for out of the box queries […]
A New CEO Push for Diversity Success
Did you hear? Earlier this summer, 150 corporate executives from some of America’s largest companies formed a new alliance called CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion. Armed with some serious workplace goals, this initiative became—essentially overnight—the largest CEO-driven business commitment to advance diversity and inclusion in the business community.
FMLA Leave 101: What Qualifies as a Serious Health Condition?
Managing leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) has its challenges. Employers need to ensure that all HR staff and all managers who deal with employee leave requests are well-versed in the finer details of FMLA-related leave. They should understand who is eligible for leave, how much they’re eligible for, how you track […]
Learning to Be a Leader from The Best
Yesterday we looked at how we could take lesson from President Lincoln to be better trainers and better people in general. Today, the rest of that list.