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Pre Employment Tests Help Avoid Hiring Remorse
You’ve likely had occasion after purchasing something to have buyer’s remorse. The same thing happens in business. Managers have buyer’s remorse all the time. Fortunately pre employments tests can help avoid regret and ensure the candidate you interview is the same...
3 Tips for Dealing with Conflict at Work
Conflict is not a four-letter word. But that's not the opinion or first reaction by most people. They cringe at the mere mention of it. They get defensive as if conflict is a reflection on their skill as a manager or their performance as an employee. It seems that...
How Management Can Improve Performance Reviews
Annual performance reviews are under attack. Some experts even boast that employee performance appraisals are dead. But whether you support them or abhor them, one thing seems to gather common ground – the performance review process needs to be improved. Many...
4 Types of Candidates You Might Interview
By now you probably know that recruiting the ideal candidate for your business takes more than a heart-stopping resumé and a few glowing references. That’s because the “right fit” is like Mom’s favorite recipe. You just can’t seem to re-create that “secret sauce” no...
6 Tips to Stop Brain Drain
By Ira S Wolfe Appeared in Business2Business, June 2008 The alarm that has been ringing in the ears of senior managers and business owners lately has become louder and more painful as they see retirements and job-hopping drain their organizational “brain power.” It...
Why Even Small Business Owners Must Recruit 24/7
If a job applicant can book a flight, deposit a check into his bank, or purchase insurance online 24/7, his expectation is that he can search for jobs and apply anytime that is convenient - from office, home, or mobile. In addition, applying for a job online should be...
From Resume Lies to Employee Theft – Is Honesty on Hiatus?
When a grandmother recently admitted to stealing $280,000 from her employer, she told police she just didn't have enough money to pay all her credit card bills...and she needed to buy her grandkids some gifts. Her only mistake...."I said things I shouldn't have said...
Lessons from M.A.S.H: Make Good Hiring Decisions, Reduce Turnover
Corporal Radar O'Reilly from the incredibly successful television series M.A.S.H. could hear a chopper coming before anyone else. Radar also knew exactly what Col. Blake wanted even before the colonel knew himself. Now I know what many of you thinking. Where can we...
How Motivated Employees Acquire Work Deficiency Syndrome
Typically new hires are motivated employees. They arrive at the workplace with a positive attitude and lots of energy and ambition. But even the most skilled employee lacks some competence while he or she learns new systems and attempts to integrate into company...
It’s Performance Review Season! Can You Feel The Tension?
Managers and employees are buzzing about the annual performance review. Unfortunately the anticipation isn’t necessarily positive. Let’s be honest. The review meeting has become little more than a song-and-dance ritual. If it wasn’t for HR’s mandate that every...
