Hiring Solutions Articles

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Use Your Team for Recruitment: A Retention Strategy  Selecting and retaining top notch staff is key for business success. Talented people who continue to develop skills and increase their value to your organization and to your customers are your most important resource.

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How to Create a Performance Management Process in Your Organization  Managing employee performance starts before a new person walks through your door. Your applicants and candidates form opinions of your organization - for better and for worse - all through the application and interview process.

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Hiring the Best Applicant  Making a great hire is one of the most important contributions a manager can make to further the work of the University. BYU Employment Services suggests five do-able steps to help managers find and hire the right people.

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Making the Case for Behavioral Interviewing, by Catherine F. Neiner.  The interview is the tool most often used to make hiring decisions. But all too often supervisors and managers make hiring mistakes because they wrongly trust their intuition or ask questions that don't help them objectively assess job-related skills and abilities.

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It might be time to raise company's IQ (Interviewer Quotient), by Greg Churchman  Are you having trouble hiring good people? Your interviewing process may need improvement. Here's a survey to determine the quality of your selection process, based primarily on your interview questions and interview team.

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Use Your Team for Recruitment: A Retention Strategy  Selecting and retaining top notch staff is key for business success. Talented people who continue to develop skills and increase their value to your organization and to your customers are your most important resource. About.com Human Resources

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Ask Right to Hire Right  Looking for a simple, yet effective way to immediately improve your interviewing and staff selection process? Define the qualities, talents and skills you’d most like to have in a new employee. Then, devise a series of questions that allow your applicant to demonstrate she has the desired qualities, talents and skills.

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Nurse & Pharmacist Shortage Offers Lessons for All Industries.  Internationally, a nursing and pharmacist shortage is becoming more critical, and offers of signing bonuses and stock options are only playing a small part in luring job candidates. Research shows, however, that throwing money toward these professionals will only have minor, short-term results. Experts in both fields point to environmental issues that organizations must address in order to improve retention, increase attraction to the fields and have an impact on reducing future scarcities.

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Single White Female: Advertising for Success  Print ads, where the bulk of new hires still come from, have always been problematic. What to say within the limits of the budget.

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Why Hire Good Employees?  One of the most crucial factors to any successful business is acquiring good employees. The more hardworking and dedicated employees a business employs, the more likely the company will be successful. Conversely, unqualified and unprofessional employees can cost a business valuable amounts of time, resources and money. So it is worth spending the time and effort to find the best candidates for the position.

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Hiring? 6 interview questions you need to ask  When it comes to interviewing potential employees, you do need to ask the loaded questions.

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Tips for Sharpening Your Hiring Skills  Problem: The employees that you have been hiring do not seem to be of the caliber that you would like. They are either incapable, uncommunicative, hard to lead, or disruptive to the company's work flow.

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Getting It Right - Employee Hiring and Retention  Help your company reduce its turnover rate by learning how to fall out of love with candidates and fall in love with how well those candidates meet identified, prioritized and agreed-to objectives.

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How to keep good employees? Hire good employees.  The first step in keeping good employees is hiring well. Begin with the end in mind. What do you want? Specifically, what does an exemplary employee look like? What does he do? How does he act? What specific outcomes do you expect from him?

Learning Solutions Articles

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The Benefits of Skill-Based Training  Training your workers can be a tremendous drain on your time and resources. But before you dismiss the idea of helping your employees learn new skills, consider the ways that skill-based training can positively affect your employees and your company.

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Secrets of Effective Employee Training  It would be nice if employees showed up for work fully prepared to meet your firm´s needs. In the real world, however, most workers need training.

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Employees Change the Rules, by John Brandt  Meet your new partners. They work for you.

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Understanding e-learning - High-tech solution eases cost pressures. The downturn in the global economy does not necessarily spell gloom for suppliers of online training. Although the corporate world has had to tighten its belt, financial institutions still need to train sales staff in new products and to deal with a fast-changing regulatory environment.

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5 low-cost strategies for employee training  Profits may be slim and staffs may be lean, but you still must keep your employees sharp and honed. Dumb and dumber don't reel in juicy contracts. On-the-job learning is a key to staying competitive.

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New Employee Orientation a Success   New employee orientation is a planned welcome to the organization that usually is shared by the human resources (or training) department and the new employee's supervisor. There are twelve key factors that can contribute to the successful orientation of new employees.

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Successful Coaching and Counseling by Supervisors: A Key to Employee Retention  ...the very difficult transition from being an individual contributor to being a leader of others. How well a supervisor manages this move is key to subordinate morale, productivity and retention.

Communicating Solutions Articles

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Tips for Communicating Effectively With Your Employees  An essential part of your job as a manager is to encourage a climate of open communication in the workplace. Use these tips to help develop good communication skills.

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Managing People - Communication Skills  Communication is a two-way operation that involves sending and receiving signals. Empowered communicators learn to receive signals so they can be proactive rather than reactive to what they send.

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360 Degree Feedback: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly by Susan M. Heathfield  Want to make people happy? Make people sad? Care to create an uproar in your organization that rivals in ferocity any change you've ever introduced in your history?

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When employees leave, read between the lines, by Joan Lloyd  Now that the economy is gaining some momentum, you may see some of your best employees walk out the door. During the past few years, your stars may have been reluctant to leave their jobs, even if they felt they weren't appreciated or able to advance. But that could change quickly when opportunities become more plentiful.

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Improvement and capacity development - improving employee communication - developing an employee communication strategy  It is absolutely essential that employees understand how what they do contributes to overall achievement of priorities, and that their actions affect how the organization is perceived internally and externally.

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A Checklist for Managers  20 Ways to Communicate with Your Employees

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Employer Attitude: The Foundation of Employee Retention  One of the foundation stones of companies which attract, retain and motivate high-performing employees is a positive and valuing attitude towards them.

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How to Provide Feedback That Has an Impact  Make your feedback have the impact it deserves by the manner and approach you use to deliver feedback. Your feedback can make a difference to people if you can avoid a defensive response.

Paying Solutions Articles

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Paying Your Employees, Business Owner's Toolkit. The compensation package that you offer your employees is important not only because it costs you money, but because, let's face it, it's the primary reason employees work for you. Compensation packages with good pay and benefits can help you attract and retain the best employees. Regarding the payment of wages or salary to employees, there are a couple of areas with which you need to concern yourself.

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Key Compensation Components Compensation has become a far more complicated issue than just deciding how much to pay your employees. In addition to salary, employers must consider many other components - 401(k) plans, stock options, bonuses and vacation - that have become part of compensation packages today.

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Employer Attitude: The Foundation of Employee Retention  One of the foundation stones of companies which attract, retain and motivate high-performing employees is a positive and valuing attitude towards them.

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Managing People - Compensation - Choosing Incentive Plans  The right incentive plan properly implemented can drive your business ahead like a rocket ship. But if expectations increase faster than actual payouts-watch out for trouble!.

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Key Compensation Components Compensation has become a far more complicated issue than just deciding how much to pay your employees. In addition to salary, employers must consider many other components - 401(k) plans, stock options, bonuses and vacation - that have become part of compensation packages today.

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How Employee Compensation and Benefits Work  If you own your own business, your employee compensation and benefits package can be the deciding factor for many potential employees. And it's not just the money. To make your company competitive and attractive to job candidates, you have to offer an exceptional total benefits package.

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What People Want from Work: Labor Unions, Compensation, Salary, Bonuses, Benefits and More  Whatever your personal reasons for working, the bottom line, however, is that almost everyone works for money. Whatever you call it: compensation, salary, bonuses, benefits or remuneration, money pays the bills.

Other Impactful Employee Retention Articles

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Improve Your Employees' Job Satisfaction, HP Technology at Work e-newsletter. With an increasing number of workers eager to find a greater work/life balance, find out what you can do now to keep your employees happy.

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How to Reward Employees When Your Budget Is Tight  7 low-cost ways to make sure your employees are happy, healthy workers Happy employees are more productive employees.

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High Cost of Turnover in a Low-Profit Environment  Any doubt that even the smallest amount of employee turnover can cost big money? Turnover can cost a company anywhere from $10,000 per employee to as much as 200 percent of employee compensation.

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Be Creative When Rewarding Employees, by Bob Nelson  When it comes to rewards, most managers feel that the only thing that their employees want is more money. While money can be an important way of letting employees know their worth to the organization, it tends not to be a sustaining motivational factor to most individuals.

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Rewarding Employees From Afar  With the changing nature of work today, managers have to adapt to new circumstances for recognizing employee performance. Employees are increasingly more empowered to make decisions and the workplace itself is being redefined to include telecommuting, flexible working hours and job sharing.

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How to Reward Employees When Your Budget Is Tight  7 low-cost ways to make sure your employees are happy, healthy workers Happy employees are more productive employees.

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Rewarding Employees - 7 Tips for Success  Trainers and managers everywhere have recognized that in the present job climate, rewarding high performers - and enticing lower ones - is more important than ever.

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Rewarding Employees - a Personal Example  Who doesn't like praise? Positive reward is a tremendous motivator.

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Employee Retention Critical in Down Economy  Are your employees going to bolt when the employment market turns in their favor? Managers at successful companies know that to attract and keep talented people, managing their best people has to be a priority, regardless of economic pressures.

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Get an employee to shape up - or ship out  Some workers collect a stack of negative attitudes and hand out one a day. Obviously, it's up to the chief to set standards and direction. But lone-ranger entrepreneurs aren't known for patience or touchy-feely expertise. Pressed for time and stretched for profits, business owners and top executives find excuses to avoid the discomfort of talking to employees who can't or won't perform.

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Managers Discuss Employee Retention  More than 60 Harvard managers and human resources professionals learned how to hang on to valued employees when author Martha R.A. Fields discussed her book "Indispensable Employees: How to Hire Them. How to Keep Them" The event, sponsored by the Office of the Assistant to the President, brought together some of the area's top human resource managers for a lively panel discussion on employee retention.

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Putting Research to Work: Americans Actually Excel in Chaos and Crisis Archetype studies of how Americans see the world and what compels us to act provide an important backdrop... This same spirit can be captured by companies undergoing the stress of the economic downturn, including those that have had to resort to layoffs. Seven cultural forces that Americans respond to and that bring out our greatest efforts and commitment.

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