Hiring Solutions Articles

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What Role Do Job Descriptions Play When Recruiting Top-notch Employees?, Workforce Week If a company is a really sought-after employer, candidates want to work there so much that the description of a specific job becomes less important. If a company isn't as hot a commodity, the actual job is the No. 1 reason a strong person would even consider, let alone accept, an offer.

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Don't hold out for 100%; accept employees at 75%, Do you have the perfect employee? Someone who meets all of the criteria listed in the job description and then some? Few of us have (or have had) that dream employee. But we refuse to learn from the past.

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Our Managers Aren't Motivating and Our Training Isn't Helping. Where Are We Going Wrong?, Dear Workforce If your hiring and promotion procedures don't include accurate assessment of leadership motivation and potential, you might not have the right people in place.

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Leading Gulf Financial Institution Chooses Smart Hiring Solution to Gain Competitive Edge , AME Info. The highly competitive nature of the banking industry, and the on-going search for competitive advantages, means that the recruitment and retention of high quality staff is top of mind with the major players.

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Employers Interview Tips, KForce Onstaff Group. Selecting the wrong candidate presents significant and unwelcome costs to employers, so taking time over interviewing is of vital importance. These notes provide some tips on getting the most out of your interviews.

Learning Solutions Articles

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State of the Sector: Training, Irwin Speizer for Workforce Management. By focusing on specific, well-defined goals and using cheaper methods like e-learning, employers have increased the amount of instruction they give workers without inflating their training budgets.

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Faced With High Turnover, Retailers Boot Up E-learning for Quick Training, Jessica Marquez, Workforce Management. When training cycles take four months, but many employees stay on the job for six months, it’s clear why some retailers are turning to shorter online courses.

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Catch the Wave: Six Training Trends - Looking for New Directions for Your Training Processes, Products and People? The wave of the future of training is breaking on the shore. It's dissolving old ways of thinking and asking organizations to look at training in a whole new way. Why? Because much of what organizations did for years in training failed to produce the desired results, if expected outcomes were defined at all.

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Keeping a Staff Motivated through Training and Development  When you think about training, you think about the reasons why you train someone. Those reasons can range from a new-hire needing training on how the department and/or company operates, to introducing a new concept to a workgroup or a new computer system. Whatever the reason for conducting a training session, it is important for a company to develop a comprehensive, ongoing and consistent training program.

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Some Firms Stand by Training Regimen  With the limping economy of the past 18 months forcing layoffs, it would seem logical that the downturn would also cut deeply into employee training. Not so. Despite the languishing economy, some big East Bay employers are bucking the trend toward reducing employee training and development.

Communicating Solutions Articles

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Job Descriptions: Why Effective Job Descriptions Make Good Business Sense, by Susan M. Heathfield.  Effectively developed, job descriptions are communication tools that are significant in your organization's success. Poorly written job descriptions, on the other hand, add to workplace confusion, hurt communication, and make people feel as if they don't know what is expected from them.

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Identifying the Real Value of Communication by Bill Quirke.  Organizations will not be able to differentiate themselves from the competition unless they transform their internal communication.

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The Twelve Dimensions of Strategic Internal Communication by Thomas J. Lee.  Communication is an organization's lifeblood. The fundamental purpose of communication in an organization is to enable and energize employees to carry out its strategic intent.

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Banking On Leadership Management by Dr. Joni Johnston for workrelationships.com.  "The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced and the habits of action he develops to meet those tests" If true, few industries have given their managers as many opportunities to become leaders as banking.

Paying Solutions Articles

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Salary Basics: Pay Philosphies, salary.com. A pay philosophy is a company's commitment to how it values employees.

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The Exacting Science of Compensation. BAI|Banking Strategies, Karen Epper Hoffman. Front-line focus on cross-selling and customer retention poses the question: what part of pay should be at risk?

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Compensation Tradeoffs. BAI|Banking Strategies, Thomas P. Johnson Jr. An effective employee compensation system requires the appropriate mix of fixed and variable pay.

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Pay-for-performance Plan Helps Shrink Bank’s Turnover,. Workforce Management, Aaron Dalton. FirstMerit Bank started evaluating employees on their speed and accuracy. Employees’ performance and workplace morale are on the way up, and turnover rates are on the way down.

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Tips for Determining a Motivating Salary - Pay Contributes to Motivation  Information online makes researching salary ranges easier than setting salaries has ever been in the past - but, also trickier. The role of salary in helping you create a motivated, contributing work force is inestimable.

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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 pay-outs - watch out for trouble!.

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Getting It Right. . . Paying Employees.  Inadequate or unsuitable pay arrangements or changes in pay without the agreement of employees can lead to many problems.

Other Impactful Employee Retention Articles

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Hi Performance, Workforce Management. A new CEO, John Varley, focused on improving employee engagement, retention, customer satisfaction, recognition and rewards and corporate culture.

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What Solutions Could Stem Rapid Turnover at Our Software Company?, Dear Workforce. Many organizations spend a lot of time, effort and money trying to uncover the secret to retaining top talent. Yet most of them overlook the obvious--asking their employees why they stay and, also, what might lure them away.

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Fast Forward: Talent & Careers, Sharon Jordan-Evans and Beverly Kaye. The top 10 trends for career development and employee engagement.

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Pass the Aspirin - Teller Issues, ABA Bankingonline. In many banks, the look and function of the branch is changing. The question of the moment is whether the teller’s job is changing with it. Going by this comment, the answer would seem to be, "yes."

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