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5 Ways to Measure Success in Your Recruitment Process
How do you know if your recruitment process is successful? How can you measure your results and make them quantifiable? With these questions in mind, here are five ways to measure success in your recruitment process that you can use to gauge the effectiveness of your...
The Negative Side of Being Overqualified for a Job
It seems like the more qualifications you have for a job, the more likely you are to land it—which seems to make sense at first glance. But in fact, when your qualifications are too impressive, you may be hurting your chances of getting hired or promoted. That's...
7 Communication Skills You Need to Succeed in the Workplace
Strong communication skills are important in any field, but few industries require them as much as the business world. Whether you're working in sales, customer service, public relations, or just plain old management, chances are you have to communicate with other...
The Real Cost of Low Performers on Your Bottom Line
One of the biggest challenges any business owner or manager faces on a regular basis is working with employees who are not high performers. These low performers may be friendly and well-liked, but they aren't carrying their weight, and not keeping their performance up...
High Performers: How to Recruit the Best of the Best
It's no secret that when you have the best, you get the best results. And while most companies understand this, there are several common mistakes they make when trying to attract high performers to their companies or teams—mistakes that waste their time and money and...
How to Hire an Effective Team: Guidelines for Managers
When you're the manager of an organization, it's your job to make sure the company runs smoothly and that everyone has what they need to get their jobs done well. From hiring to training to decision-making, there are numerous aspects of leading your team that requires...
The Effect of Social Class Diversity in the Workplace
When most people think of diversity in the workplace, they think of it as varying by race, gender, and sexual orientation. They don’t often consider social class diversity as part of the equation, even though researchers are realizing that it has an effect on both the...
Executive Search: What Goes into It?
When it comes to finding the right candidate for an executive position within your company, you don't want to make any mistakes or hire the wrong person just because they seem like they fit the mold. That's why there's an entire process that goes into executive search...
Top 5 Tips for Conducting a Performance Review
Training your employees well and giving them honest, helpful feedback is essential to creating an environment where they can do their best work and succeed on the job. In order to truly evaluate your employees' strengths and weaknesses, you need to know what goals you...
Is It Time to Improve Employee and Staff Development?
Importance of developing your employee's skills A company is only as good as its employees. If you have hired the best talents, expect to become the leader in the industry. On the other hand, employees with low skills tend to spell doom for companies. Aside from that,...