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What Matters Most To Your Employees
In a data-driven culture, we tend to focus on and trust what the numbers tell us. We run our businesses by them and far too often apply similar calculations and algorithms to management and leadership...
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What You Are Doing Wrong With Gen-Y Staff, And How To Make Them Love Your...
Sooner or later Generation Y will be running things. Those born between 1978 and 1994 are known as Gen-Y, and many are already running businesses, founding startups (some very successfully, like...
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Making The Case For Taking A Real Vacation
America is still the only developed economy which doesn’t have a mandatory paid vacation policy built into it’s labor laws. In May 2013, an attempt in Congress to add an amendment to the Fair Labor...
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Five Ways To Make Staff Happier And More Productive
There are days in the office where it feels like nothing gets done. Days when everyone leaves being glad the working day is done. Mission creep sinks in. The unexpected takes over your whole day,...
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How To Benefit From A Surge in HR Roles, According to Software Advice Study
A sure sign of a return to economic prosperity is an increase in the number of people hired to undertake recruitment. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics there will be a 13 percent growth...
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How to Calculate Employee Compensation
Allowing the market to decide the dollar value of things – like salary – has been an economic principle more strictly adhered to, in recent times, since the Clinton era. As we move back into a...
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What Can We Learn From Startup Culture?
Working for a startup is very different from working for a larger company. Popular culture would have us believe that startups are all the product of twenty-something college graduates, writing code...
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Are you living your company’s values? How to assess, re-evaluate and embrace...
Company values are like an individual’s personality, except business values are made from a collection of personalities, history and goals. A mature firm will have different values to a startup. Values...
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CEO Material?
Ben Horowitz, multi-millionaire, gangsta rappin’ bad boy of a venture capitalist, has been studying CEO’s for decades. Horowitz questions the very idea that any leader, especially a CEO, is a ‘born’...
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Beer Pong Isn’t Culture
“Perks are good, but they are not culture.” Ben Horowitz, a16z Founding Partner, Author of The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers. Perks, as any...
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HOW DO YOU TRUST A COMPLETE STRANGER TO BECOME YOUR NEXT STAR EMPLOYEE?
As a hiring manager, you’re tasked with finding the next valued employee. But deep down you also hope they will end up being a superstar employee. As you sort through piles of resumes and find ones who...
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Try Not to Judge – How to Reduce Bias in the Hiring Process
There are hiring best practices such as behavioral assessments that can help reduce the reliance on gut instinct or judgment that seeps into the hiring process. When you have a resume in front of you,...
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4 Things To Look Out For When Using A Personality Assessment
What’s Wrong With Using A Personality Assessment? The great news is that use of a personality assessment in the hiring process is growing in adoption. They are useful in identifying the right...
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Why Structured Is Better When It Comes To Interviews
Interviews are a necessary part of the hiring process, but can be frustrating with trying to coordinate schedules, finding time to review a resume thoroughly and trying to determine within an hour...
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Diversity in the Workplace
Diversity in the workplace is a ‘hot’ topic. Everyone understands the importance of diversity in the workplace, but when we take a moment to step back and assess our companies, can we truly say that...
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What The Voice can teach us about the hiring process
The best in the business looking for the next best! Each week millions of viewers invest an hour of their evenings in watching as potential candidates are given the opportunity to achieve their dream....
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Expert Interview: Caitlin MacGregor, CEO of Plum, Discussing Online Recruiting
HOW HAS ONLINE RECRUITING EVOLVED SINCE YOU GOT INTO THE BUSINESS? Since coming into the business, online recruiting has evolved from being an online job search platform where job seekers can search...
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The Issue with the Interview: Confirmation Bias
How trusting your gut is hindering you from making the best hiring decisions Often, the interview stage is considered a pivotal step in the traditional hiring process. While the opportunity to get...
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Soft Skills Training: What Is It & Why Does Your Team Need It?
When it comes to customer service training, the majority of businesses place a strong emphasis on developing so-called “hard skills”. After all, these are the specific technical skills that are...
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Skill and Personality: Integrating Factors in Hiring Decisions
Can a personality assessment be of use in a heavily skills-based industry? Absolutely. The perfect job candidate is not always made up of one skill or trait. Like many things in life, finding the...
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