With the Independence Day holiday yesterday, this is an opportune time to talk about loyalty. Specifically, about employee loyalty. Building and maintaining employee loyalty is crucial for the long-term success and growth of any company. When employees are loyal, they are more engaged, productive, and committed to the organization's goals. Below are seven effective ways [...]
In previous blog posts, we've addressed an important topic for all organizations: hiring the best job candidates in the marketplace. That’s abundantly apparent by the titles of those two posts: “5 Steps and 5 Questions for Adding Top Talent to Your Organization”“5 Questions to Ask About Hiring Passive Candidates” So while that topic is an [...]
Even though we’re in the midst of a pandemic, there is still a shortage of top talent in the marketplace. (It makes sense when you think about it. The pandemic certainly didn’t create more top candidates.) So—what should employers do? The first and most effective step in recruiting and hiring the best and brightest people [...]
There are a couple of big hiring mistakes that some organizations fall prey to. One of them is leaving a position open for too long, which can cost the organization a ton of time and also money. The only mistake worse than that is hiring the wrong person for the position, which can cost even [...]
As an employer, you no doubt have experience interviewing job seekers and candidates for your organization’s open positions. However, do you interview your current employees, especially your top employees, the ones who you want to hold onto the most? There’s a good chance that you’re not. In fact, you might be thinking to yourself right [...]
These days, success in the employment marketplace is all about doing more with less, and that makes an organization’s workforce—and the employees who comprise that workforce—all the more important. But what makes a truly valuable employee? What traits set apart those exceptional employees from those who are merely good or simply "okay"? This is a [...]
If your job involves an office environment, there’s a good chance that you may be working from home. In fact, you’ve probably been working from home for quite some time now. At the beginning, you might have enjoyed the freedom of working in your robe and slippers. But perhaps, over time, the line between work [...]
All across the country, states are announcing and executing plans for reopening their economies in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. Of course, the pace of these plans and the stages involved are different depending upon the industries in which a business operates. However, there are some things that have proven to be consistent across [...]
During the recent candidate-driven market, employer branding became an important issue in terms of hiring and the employment marketplace. That’s because, with qualified candidates so scarce, employers had to be mindful of the image they portrayed. The better their image, the more attractive they became to top candidates. Well, it’s no longer a candidate-driven market, [...]
We recently published a blog post that dealt with the right way to resign from your job. That blog post also made reference to some things that you should NOT do when you resign from your current employer after accepting an offer of employment from another company. And it’s one of those things that we’re [...]