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As the Economy Improves

Reports indicate that employees will be leaving current employers as the economy improves. Honest conversations now can help mitigate employee losses.READ»

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How To Optimise Your Job Search

Affiliating yourself with a Recruitment Agent is an excellent way to optimise your job search and ensure you’re covering the market from all angles. Here are some tips on how to deal effectively with a Recruitment Agent to give you the best chance of securing your ideal role.READ»

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Bill Conaty Sidesteps Issues, Plays it Safe at World Business Forum

The opening sequence this morning at the World Business Forum highlighted the turmoil, crisis, and upheaval our business world has faced over the last year. It was ominous, one newspaper after the other headlining the dire events that ...READ»

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Why It May Be Wiser To Hire People Without Meeting Them

When the economy finally turns around, you'll start hiring people again. You'll sift through dozens of impressive-sounding résumés -- who knew there were so many VPs in the world? -- and bring in the standouts for the ...READ»

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Inaguration of President Bararck Obama and the Brand Campaign

  Never have we seen an elected president, and maybe even any single person come into the spotlight as quickly, and with as much force as Barack Obama has over the last 4+ years.  If online search (googling) can give any ...READ»

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Lessons From My Childhood - S.P.U.D.

By almost any measure, I had a very typical '70s childhood. We lived in a young subdivision, explored everything, got in big trouble, suffered injuries, had divorced parents and viewed the world with an overarching sense of wonder ...READ»

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Are You The Bad Apple?

Very early in my career I was working on a team project that had fairly broad implications for my firm.  There were seven of us in total and we typically convened via phone two to three times a week.  We began with a quick roll ...READ»

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2009 Predictions - HR And The Year Of The Ox

Most of us cannot wait to wash our hands of 2008 - It was a tumultuous, emotional, surprising and bitter year for so many.  But scrub as we might, it’s going to be difficult to remove the stains of fear, uncertainty and doubt ...READ»

Silence, Listening and Executive Competence

By Kenny Moore It’s not just our personal life that benefits from silence.  So does our corporate one. I recently had a chance to work with one of our Operating officers.  He asked my help in designing a group meeting ...READ»

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Innovative & Effective Mentor Programs Part II

The potential success of Mentee/Mentor pairing can often times be similar to that of dating. There are a host of reasons why a paired Mentee and Mentor would not be the ideal match, some of which are differences in: o ...READ»

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Social Networking Mentor Programs

Social Networking Mentor Programs Benefits A Social Networking Mentor Program (SNMP) is a Mentor Program that is hosted on a Social Networking website, such as Facebook or LinkedIn. There are 2 common ways organizations can ...READ»

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Tired of Unproductive & Disengaged Employee's?

Consider implementing an early Resignation Bonus for Employee's that are not making the cut. Zappos, an Internet shoe retailer, has been offering EE's an early resignation bonus for the past 3 years. Originally, the online company ...READ»

Competence of the Human Resource Profession

I just read about the results of an interesting new study, “State of the Global Talent Nation”, conducted by Softscape. 94% of the 250 human resource professionals surveyed say they “don’t feel their personnel are adequately ...READ»

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Youth Hiring Tips: Pens and Something Called a Pension

For the Native peoples who used to live along this Pacific Coast that we now call home, the tides would serve dinner twice a day.  Rolling back into the greater sea, a host of options were readily available for their culinary ...READ»

Super Stars need not apply: How HR systems are culling the very people that companies need the most.

Anyone who has looked for a job in the last four years has probably noticed something very odd was going on. With only a few exceptions almost every single company has the same format in order to apply for a job. This same format ...READ»

Why All HR Departments Need a Blog

The rules have changed and blogging is not just for geeks with a knack for writing anymore. Employees who want to smear you, recruiters who don't want to hire you, PR Departments who want to snow you - are all blogging; is HR ...READ»

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HR Director Faces 20 Years In Prison

Alex Urrutia-Garcia, HR Director for Universal Industrial Sales, a Utah based manufacturing company, faces up to 20 years in prison for "encouraging or inducing workers to remain in the U.S. illegally". According to one ...READ»

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"If You Were An Animal, What Kind Would You Be?" - When You Hear This Question, Get Up And Leave The Room Immediately!

So the interview is going well - You're in upper management and have led many successful behavioral interviews yourself in the past.  All indications are that you're knocking it dead . . . and then the person on the other end of ...READ»

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Job Seekers, Beware!: Why Job Board Resumes Are Seen As Re-circulatory Garbage

Take a good look at the attached image and you'll begin to understand the analogy between Job Board resumes and Re-circulatory Garbage . . .  Take another look at let it sink in a little bit.  Many candidates I speak with ...READ»

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