Are These Risks Impacting Your Workforce?

When your employees are healthy and happy, productivity increases and turnover decreases. Because it’s so important to have satisfied staff members, good companies know they need to create a positive work environment, support their staff, and pay attention to the well-being of team members.

How Does Culture Attract Candidates?

If your company wants to attract top candidates to your organization, there are a few key things your business needs to focus on. Obviously, you want to provide a competitive salary and good benefits. However, there’s something else that is just as important: building a reputation for having a positive company culture.

Hiring for Empathy

There’s a lot to be said for the ability to put yourself in someone else’s shoes. Whether you are selling to customers, managing employees, or simply dealing with colleagues, there is much to be gained by being able to imagine how someone else feels – and to express empathy with their situation.

Painless Performance Reviews

Across the board, performance reviews are generally greeted with dread. Employees approach the inevitable process with a sense of impending doom, while managers and HR professionals get stressed out over prepping for the evaluation. When it comes to performance review time, neither party need feel uncomfortable – if the process is approached properly.

Spelling and Grammar in Resumes and Cover Letters

In this era of texting, tweeting, Facebook, and everything shorthand, it might be surprising to learn that knowing how to compose well-written communication, complete with correct spelling and grammar, even matters anymore. Guess what? It does. Perhaps nowhere is correctness more critical than in a resume or cover letter.

Hiring High Potentials

When making hiring decisions, it’s inevitable there are going to be those candidates you would love to hire, but they just aren’t a good fit for the specific job for which you are interviewing. You know the ones. You’re rifling through a stack of resumes when one seems to literally jump out at you. The […]