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Plan Your Recruiting to Ensure Successful Candidate Selection

Do you select new employees based largely on an attractive resume and the candidate’s performance at the resultant interview? If so, you are missing the opportunity to use additional recruiting and screening methods that will ensure a superior hire. Learn how a recruiting planning meeting can ensure you hire candidates who will perform successfully in your work place.

Human Resources and Management OneStop Center

Looking for information about any aspect of human resources, work force management and development, self development, or business management for your business or organization? You've found the right resource. Here are all the resources you'll need to effectively start, manage and develop your human resources department and all aspects of your business. Find information about human resources, management, and working with people at work.

Please Don't Let HR Be Misunderstood

The most common email I receive recounts a Human Resources horror story. Employees tell me endless stories about how they were treated by their HR staff person. They describe HR officials as uncaring, incompetent, and clueless. They accuse HR staff of being out of touch with the needs of employees and favoring management and the company line over employee concerns.

Inspirational Quotations for Business and Work: Directory

Looking for an inspirational quote or a business quotation for your newsletter, business presentation, bulletin board or inspirational posters? These quotes are useful to help motivation and inspiration in business and at work.

Sick Leave Abuse: A Chronic Workplace Ill?

Do you find that your employees are missing-in-action on a more frequent basis during the summer and during the holiday seasons? Studies show you're right. Here is information about sick leave abuse and absenteeism, and what you can do about it.

Job Interview Tips: How to Interview Potential Employees

The job interview is a powerful factor in the employee selection process in most organizations. While the job interview may not deserve all the attention that the job interview receives, it is still a powerful force in hiring. Other background checking and work history references provide much less personalized and more factual information, and hopefully, you have also added these checks to your hiring decisions, too. But the job interview remains key to assessing the candidate's cultural fit.

Twelve Tips for Team Building: How to Build Successful Work Teams

People in every workplace talk about building the team, working as a team and my team, but few understand how to create the experience of team work or how to develop an effective team. Here are twelve tips for building successful work teams. You can use these tips for effective team building every day.

Use LinkedIn for Recruiting Employees

LinkedIn and other social networking sites are advantageous for employers who use them for both networking and recruiting. I am increasingly receiving email notes from my LinkedIn contacts asking me to refer potential employees or help them make a contact for hard-to-fill positions. The potential for LinkedIn and other social networking sites to play a major role in your employee recruiting strategy increases as millions of potential employees profile themselves on these sites each year.

Speed Meeting Icebreaker

Looking for an icebreaker that will quickly allow your training session participants to meet fellow participants? Need an icebreaker that will warm up the group with action and movement? You’ve found the right icebreaker. This speed meeting icebreaker will accomplish both of these objectives.

Create Your Personal Vision Statement

Your personal vision statement guides your life. Your personal vision statement provides the direction necessary to guide the course of your days and the choices you make about your career. Your personal vision statement is the light shining in the darkness toward which you turn to find your way. Your personal vision statement illuminates your way. Find out how to develop your personal vision statement.

Dress for Work Success: A Business Casual Dress Code

Your Company's objective in establishing a business casual dress code, is to allow our employees to work comfortably in the workplace. Yet, we still need our employees to project a professional image for our customers, potential employees, and visitors. Because all casual clothing is not suitable for the office, these guidelines will help you determine what is appropriate to wear to work. Business casual dress is the dress code standard. Learn more about business casual dress in this dress code.

Performance Improvement Strategies

Do you have responsibility for supervising the work of others? If so, you know that employees don't always do what you want them to do. On the one hand, they act as if they are competent professionals. On the other, they procrastinate, miss deadlines, and wait for instructions. So, what's a supervisor to do? Performance improvement is your answer. You must begin by finding out why the employee is not meeting your expectations. This checklist for employee performance improvement will help.

Meet and Greet Meeting Ice Breakers

Want to know more about creating quick, fun ice breakers for training and team building sessions and regular meetings? I am a proponent of ice breakers that reinforce the content and goal accomplishment of a team building or training session. At the same time, there is a place for a fun ice breaker whose only purpose is to help session attendees know and appreciate each other. Here is an ice breaker that requires some time in preparation, but is quick and fun to carry out at your meeting.

Meet and Greet Meeting Ice Breaker for Lunch

Here's a fun ice breaker that warms up a group and enables participants at a meal to get to know each other quickly. While I usually recommend ice breakers that bring participants into discussion about the content of a training or team building session, there is a place for a fun ice breaker whose only purpose is to help session attendees know and appreciate each other. Here is an ice breaker that requires some time in preparation, but is quick and fun to carry out at your meeting.

How to Ask for a Pay Raise in a Tough Economy

How do you ask for a pay raise when your company has put most pay raises on hold this year? Or, what if your employer is offering a 2% pay raise across the board, and you believe you have earned more? The answer? It depends. If pay raises are on hold, keep in mind that you risk looking like you’re not a team player when you ask for a pay raise under those circumstances. Especially if your company is in any kind of trouble or laying off employees, wait a few months to ask for a pay raise.

How to Fire With Compassion and Class

Firing an employee does not have to be the worst experience of your year. You can use the occasion to examine what went wrong in the employment relationship. Assuming the termination is for a mismatch, you can help the employee build self-esteem despite their employment termination. You can encourage the employee to look ahead and get started on a new job search. Even if the firing is for non-performance, you want to end the relationship on a positive note.

Hiring Employees: A Checklist for Success in Hiring Employees

Want to recruit and hire a superior workforce? This checklist for hiring employees will help you systematize your process for hiring employees, whether it's your first employee or one of many employees you are hiring. This hiring employees checklist helps you keep track of your recruiting efforts. This hiring employees checklist communicates both the recruiting and the hiring process to the hiring manager. Your feedback and comments are welcome to improve this checklist for hiring employees.

Employment Ending Checklist

Employees leave your organization for good reasons and bad reasons. On the positive side, they find new opportunities, go back to school, retire or land their dream job. Less positively, they are fired for poor performance or poor attendance or experience a layoff because of a business downturn. In each instance, you need an employment termination checklist to help the employee exit process go smoothly. Here's a sample employment termination checklist.

Casual Dress Code: Manufacturing

Your Company's objective in establishing a casual dress code is to allow our employees to work comfortably. Yet, we still need our employees to project a professional image for our customers and clients who visit. Because all casual clothing is not suitable for the workplace, these guidelines will help you determine what is appropriate. Learn more about casual dress in this dress code that differentiates between clothing for industry and manufacturing and clothing for the office.

Severance Pay

Severance pay is money that an employer might want to provide for an employee who is leaving their employ. Normal circumstances that might warrant severance pay include layoffs, job elimination, and mutual agreement to part ways for whatever reason. Severance pay usually amounts to a week or two of pay for each year of service to the company. In some instances, a severance package might include extended benefits and outplacement assistance.

Beyond Traditional SMART Goals

Once upon a time, in a business management world that seems more remote with every passing day, SMART goals (specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-based goals) supported business success. No more. Goal setting is the foundation for personal and business success. It is time, however, in the business environment existing today, to expand the meaning of SMART goals. And, perhaps, one word per letter is no longer enough to define a useful acronym. Read more about goal setting..

How to Ask for a Pay Raise

Want more money than you're currently making? If your goal is to stay in your current job, working for your present employer, you'll need to ask for a pay raise. Planning and preparation are key when you ask for a pay raise. So are timing, your employer's pay practices, and the market-based pay rates for your job.

Dennis C. Donnelly, J.D.. - Biography

Dennis Donnelly has a trial practice representing employers in federal and state courts, exclusively the defense of employers in litigation dealing with employment discrimination (race, sex, age, national origin, disability and religion), workforce reduction, wrongful discharge and ERISA claims. His practice includes arbitration, negotiating collective bargaining agreements and representing employers before the NLRB, the EEOC and state and local agencies.

Terra Vanzant-Stern, PhD., PMP, SPHR/GPHR: Biography

Biography of Terra Vanzant-Stern, Ph.D, who holds several certifications that include Project Management Professional (PMP), Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR), and Global Professional in Human Resources (GPHR). She is the President-Elect for the Colorado Human Resource Association. She is a Six Sigma Master Black Belt, and principal of SSD Global, Inc.

Joshua Levy - Biography

Joshua Levy is the Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of BeenVerified. Josh combines his passion for Web technology and experience in finance to help the team look at BeenVerified from multiple perspectives.