Strengthen Your Hiring by Recruiting for Potential, Not Direct Work Experience

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Obsessing over candidates’ direct work experience instead of their potential could be sabotaging your recruitment efforts. Concentrating too intensely on direct work experience ignores other experiences that inform the behaviors of the best talent. If employers don’t give these workers a chance, they’ll really never know what they could be missing.

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4 Ways to Make Your Company More Millennial Friendly

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Millennial retention rates are incredibly tiny. Companies are left scratching their heads wondering why their millennial workforce always seems to jump ship. Just 13% of millennials in one study agreed that someone should stay in a company for at least five years before leaving. We are going to show you four of the best ways to make your company millennial-friendly.

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Stay Connected: How Everyday Leaders Engage People

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Creating a fully engaged team has a real impact on your results. Organizations in the upper echelons of employee engagement beat their counterparts in productivity, profitability, and customer ratings — in some cases by more than 20 percent. They have lower absenteeism, less shrinkage, fewer accidents, and better quality. An engaged workforce always comes back to culture, and culture always comes down to leadership at every level of your organization. Here are nine things to do every day that keep your team providing the discretionary effort you need to thrive.

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Dear Employers: Here’s Why You Can’t Hire Top Talent.

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Dear Company,Its not you, it’s me. Well actually it is YOU.I really didn’t know what I was getting myself into when I agreed to interview,and now that we’ve met, here are the reasons why it’s not going to work out between us:

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4 Steps To A New Promotion Model

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Organizations were truly shaken up and altered by the last recession. In the past, the so-called lessons learned were quickly forgotten as companies lost focus on efficiencies and fell back into bad habits. So far, overall, that is not happening this time around. Here are 4 steps management can implement to build growth-based career cultures.

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The Secret to Creating a Great Job Description

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“Can you vision the next step in your career?” Are you going to continue reading this job description? The average job description lists job duties, qualifications, and required experience. Job description effectiveness is only 34 percent, and there are 4 million online postings per month. The reality is that most job seekers spend less than 2 minutes reading a job posting. Here is what you need to do to post a job description worthy of grabbing the attention and response of top talent.

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3 Things that Drive Bottom-line Results and Employee Engagement

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So you’ve taken great care in hiring the candidate who stood tall above the others. The hard work is done right? Wrong. Employee Engagement is work, and as their manager, it is your responsibility to keep your treasured employee engaged to drive bottom-line results for the business.

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The Value of Human Resource Management Systems: To Have or Not to Have

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Do the throes of endless paperwork drive you nutty? And more importantly is the time wasted costing the business money and valuable resources, hint that’s you. In this article we’re going to explore the modernization of Human Resources technology, and how your business can benefit from it.

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Why Employee Engagement Matters and Employee Satisfaction Might Not

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Employee “satisfaction” and employee “engagement” are terms that have often times been used interchangeably when referring to keeping company morale and lowering turnover rates. Can they really be used interchangeably? Not quite. And here’s why.

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Is Work Life Balance a Reality in Today’s Workforce?

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65% of human resources professionals believe their company provides their employees with the “work-life-balance,” we all want and need. However, if you’re an employee it probably won’t surprise you that this study’s results show a huge disconnect in what many human resources professionals believe and what is reality.

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