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Keeping up with business news is important to your career, whether you're working or looking for work. The types of business news you should be keeping up with includes labor market news, industry news, news about your profession or occupation, as well as ...read more
Once a perk reserved for executives, many publicly held companies now offer stock options to rank-and-file employees. Small businesses do so to give their workers a sense of ownership, providing them with financial incentives to make their companies succeed.
According to the Employee Ownershi...read more
Lack the employee benefit budget of a Fortune 500 company? There are employee benefit solutions to make your staff happy without breaking the bank.
Designing & administering an employee benefit plan is a complex undertaking. Your plan can cover regular benefits such as health care, vacati...read more
The Small Business Payroll Solution
Anyone who has drawn a paycheck has noticed the extent to which gross salary is whittled down by tax deductions, voluntary IRA contributions, union dues and other commitments. If you're the one responsible for cutting the checks, you have to ma...read more
Are You Working Long Hours on Work You Love?
Are you working more, enjoying it less, and dreading the time you spend most days at your work place? If you answered "yes" to this question, take some time to explore your current career choice and consider all of the o...read more
Career Exploration Tools
Are you experiencing a mid-career crisis? And, if not, should you be experiencing a mid-career crisis? I did when I was thirty-four years old. I'd been working in my chosen field for 14 years and had finished my Masters degree in a related subject. I expe...read more
Are you feeling blah about your work and life? Does the experience of boredom make you unmotivated and unexcited? Are you having a mid-life crisis? You can promote your own personal growth, motivation and career development to overcome this inertia. Here are ideas and tools that will help you exp...read more
How Do You Know When it's Time to Quit Your Job?
You've done everything you can to make your current job work. But, your current job is not working. These are the top ten reasons why you might want to quit your current job. These are difficult, if not impossible, to ...read more
Thinking about your current job search or a career change? These books will help you find your way. Learn about the job market. Translate your most important needs, interests, and goals into a rewarding career. Find techniques for a successful job search. These are my long term favorites. Gift a ...read more
Ten Tips for the Stay-at-Home Parent and More
Concerned about getting back in the workforce after a gap in your employment? You should be when you consider the bad experiences some employers have had when they take a chance on people with a gap in their employment history. Additional...read more
Post Jobs Online to Maximize Your Chances of Attracting Talent
Are you convinced that the Internet is the most useful tool for employers recruiting qualified employees? You should be. You can post jobs online and use the Web for recruiting. Even a job posting in the classifi...read more
Reader Submissions: Readers Share Their Best and Favorite Workplace Events of the Decade
Describe Your Best and Most Favorite Workplace Event A few Medical Health Care Centers, where I was contracted to work Hospital Staffing.
What Made This Your Best and Favorite Workplace Event It was ...read more
Reader Submissions: Readers Share Their Best and Favorite Workplace Events of the Decade
Describe Your Best and Most Favorite Workplace Event My favorite improvement is an increase in the awareness of the need to make workplaces more family-friendly. Although the trend started earlie...read more
Reader Submissions: Readers Share Their Best and Favorite Workplace Events of the Decade
Describe Your Best and Most Favorite Workplace Event For me, one of the best innovations for the workplace of this decade has been the transformation of employee recruiting. I used to have to ...read more
Business Management Success Tips
What do employees want from work? There are five factors that must be present in your workplace for your employees to be happy and motivated at work. Your employees need respect, to be members of the in-crowd, to impact decision making about their job...read more
Managing and Solving Workplace Negativity
Nothing affects employee morale more insidiously than persistent workplace negativity. It saps the energy of your organization and diverts critical attention from work and performance. Negativity occurs in the attitude, outlook, and talk of o...read more
Motivation Success Tips
If you can't motivate people directly, what can you do to create a motivating workplace? Identify the factors that employees find motivating and make sure your work environment supports them. Think about what makes a workplace motivating for you as one source for ans...read more
What Pay Raise Can You Expect From Your Employer?
Do you believe your work is worth more money than you are making? If so, you are not alone. According to a Salary.com survey of 13,500 random visitors, 65 percent of respondents said they are looking for a new job within the next three months. O...read more
Top Ten Tips for Selecting and Hiring the Right Employee
Hiring the right employee is a challenging process. Hiring the wrong employee is expensive, costly to your work environment, and time consuming. Hiring the right employee, on the other hand, pays you back in employee productivity, a...read more
Nobody wants a draft, least of all, the U.S. Military
Dateline: June 2005
As the U.S. Army reported falling short of its annual recruiting goal for the first time since 1999, suggestion have arisen that the military draft may be reinstated for the first time in 32 years. But, w...read more
In an effort to improve RCMP recruiting efforts, the government will now pay RCMP cadets $500 a week for their 24-week training period. The RCMP also covers cadet expenses for travel to the RCMP Training Academy in Regina, Saskatchewan, uniforms, training courses and room and board.
The RCMP...read more
From the article: What is the MAVNI Program?
Are military recruitment programs such as the MAVNI program a good way for immigrants and nonimmigrants to earn U.S. citizenship, or do you feel that these types of programs take advantage of immigrants?
Since 1775, immigrants have served
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Glucosamine/Chondroitin Arthritis Intervention Trial Begins Patient Recruitment
Bethesda, Maryland — The first U.S. multicenter study to investigate glucosamine and chondroitin, two dietary supplements widely marketed in the United States as effective natural remedies for osteoarthriti...read more
Managers cite performance appraisals or annual reviews as one of their most disliked tasks. Performance management eliminates the performance appraisal or annual review as the focus and concentrates on the entire spectrum of performance management and development issues. Employee performance deve...read more
Goals of Employee Performance Evaluation
Interested in why organizations do employee performance evaluation? Employee performance evaluation is both an evaluative process and a communication tool. Done traditionally, employee performance evaluation is universally disliked by supervisor...read more
Step-by-step to a Performance Management System
Performance appraisals, performance reviews, appraisal forms, whatever you want to call them, let's call them gone. As a stand-alone, annual assault, a performance appraisal is universally disliked and avoided. After all, how many peo...read more
Performance Management: A Whole Different Focus
Performance appraisals are a hot topic in management and organizations these days. In fact, hundreds of resources exist to tell you how to do performance reviews. I think this is the wrong approach. Should you do reviews at all? People wa...read more
Help People Succeed and Improve
Are you fed up with the return on investment you experience when you subject people to your current performance appraisal process? Are you changing your approach to performance evaluation and review? There is a better way to approach performance manageme...read more
FMLA Eligibility and Benefits
By Alison Doyle, About.com Guide
The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) can be of assistance if you need to take time off from work because of family responsibilities. The first step is to ask your employer what Family and Medical Leave Act benef...read more
Business health insurance is a major cost of doing business, especially for small companies and mom-and-pop firms. With premiums soaring, many small business owners are asking their employees to shoulder more of the financial burden or cutting benefits entirely.
The New York-based Commonwealt...read more
10 Reasons Why Employees Are Happy and Engaged in an Elf-Friendly Workplace
Think that Santa’s elves are happy on the job? I do. And, I think that I know why, too. Some universal principles about how to create happy employees at work are operating on full throttle at the North ...read more
An exit interview is a meeting with a terminating employee that is generally conducted by Human Resources staff. The exit interview provides your organization with the opportunity to obtain frank, honest feedback from the employee who is leaving your employment.
Managers and supervisors are a...read more
Achieve Your Business, Financial, and Career Goals and New Year's Resolutions
Looking for advice and help to make this New Year your best year – ever? There is something about a new year - a new beginning - so new goals and resolutions, new plans, new dreams and new directions fuel...read more
A Career Path Is Crucial for Employee Development
Are you reaping the benefits of a thoughtfully-developed, written, employer-supported career path plan? Creating a career path, or career pathing, is an essential component of your life-long career management.
A career path plan is also a...read more
Career pathing is the process used by an employee to chart a course within an organization for his or her career path and career development. Career pathing involves understanding what knowledge, skills, personal characteristics, and experience are required for an employee to progress his or her ...read more
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Have you had a mentor over the course of your career? Many employees benefit from the advice and help provided by a mentor. In fact, in terms of employee development and career advancement, a relationship with a mentor has a critical impact on career success. Readers ...read more
How to Make Mentoring a Win for Employees, Mentors, and Employers
A mentoring relationship is a win-win for all parties: the employee who seeks a mentor, the mentor, and organizations that employ the mentoring pair. Need convincing? Here’s why mentoring makes business sense. Se...read more
Semi retired or phased retirement occurs when an employee elects to reduce his or her hours of employment. The semi retired employee may work part time. The employee who opts for phased retirement gradually reduces the hours that he or she works over time. Semi retirement or phased retirment are ...read more
In yesterday’s article, Interviewing Applicants with Disabilities Part I, we provided information from the Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) on preparing to interview an applicant with a disability. In Part II, we provide tips on conducting the interview.
Conducting the ...read more
An African American education administrator considered for a position at a Wisconsin technical school didn’t make the cut. When a white candidate was hired, the black applicant sued for race discrimination—and another important bias, which she and her attorney called “marital as...read more
In an exclusive interview with the HR Daily Advisor®, Mary Power discussed revamped eligibility criteria for HRCI's exams, and the value of the certification to HR managers and their employers.
"Our Value of Certification studies clearly show the advantages of certification,&...read more
One way or another, some employers end up shelling out more money than they’d have wished or intended to an employee or two. Can they get it back? With some difficulty. Here are several recent subscriber questions on this topic, and our legal experts’ answers.
Q: An employee n...read more
In Winning with a Culture of Recognition (Globoforce Ltd., 2010), authors Eric Mosley and Derek Irvine discuss a new and more strategic approach to employee recognition. Their goal is first to identify employee behaviors that help to achieve the company’s goals and reinforce its values and ...read more
While workplace violence and bullying are not necessarily new problems, they’ve garnered recent attention as the recession continues to take its psychological toll on workers. Company downsizing, increasing responsibilities and an ongoing lackluster economy are adding to stressful work envi...read more
40 per cent of employers think hiring workers with mental health conditions is too much of a risk
James Brockett
British businesses are failing employees with mental health conditions, from recruitment t...read more
Young unemployed people, ex-offenders and older workers suffer, CIPD finds
Michelle Stevens
Less than a quarter of employers have hired staff from disadvantaged groups in the past three years, according to new research from the CIPD and KPMG.
Young people with few qualifications, the ...read more
Move ‘would control costs and protect lower paid’
James Brockett
The public sector should move from final salary to career average pensions, to help reduce its pension costs and protect lower paid workers, the National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF) have argued.
In it...read more
JWT INSIDE, one of the world’s leading employee relationship marketing agencies, was honored with ten iNOVA Awards, winning Grand Prize and sweeping the Careers/Recruitment Category for the second consecutive year; in addition to placing in Intranet Sites, Redesign/Relaunch, Business Blog, ...read more
ST. LOUIS, December 22, 2010 — Sendouts is helping Operation Homefront by full-filling the holiday wish lists of four adopted military families in the local St. Louis area. OH is a nonprofit organization that supports the families of deployed service members who are faced with financial har...read more
Pittsburgh-based Select International, a global provider of human resource assessment solutions, is reporting very solid growth as it closes out 2010 and looks ahead to 2011. In a year where many organizations were in recovery mode, Select International experienced a 33% growth increase and secur...read more
NEW YORK, Dec. 21, 2010 – Sherri Bockhorst has joined Buck Consultants as a principal in the firm’s St. Louis office. She will serve in the Health and Productivity practice.
With 15 years of consulting experience, Bockhorst joins Buck from Towers Watson, where she led the St. Lou...read more
December 15, 2010–The epic debate on health care raised plenty of controversy and confusion – but one thing that people across both aisles seemed to agree on was the need for a renewed focus on wellness and prevention at the workplace, in schools and at home. While wellness didn&rsquo...read more
Chicago, IL — Job Search Television Network (JSTN) announced today that HRO Today Magazine has recognized JSTN as one of the year’s most innovative human resource technologies. The company was awarded a prestigious HR SaaS (Software-as-a-Service) TekTonic Award for its unique video-ce...read more
SEATTLE — December 21, 2010 — Learning to effectively delegate appropriate tasks and prevent upward delegation are critical components of successful management. A new article by Impact Achievement Group gives new managers actionable tips for successfully assigning work tasks.
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Auckland, NZ December 20 2010 — Auckland-based software developer Sonar6’s 324% revenue growth over the past three years has again earned the company a spot among the Asia Pacific region’s 100 fastest-growing technology companies.
The Deloitte Fast 500 Program recognizes th...read more
In tumultuous times such as these, recruitment trends are constantly changing. The following details emerging trends and challenges global recruitment marketing agency CKR Interactive noted throughout 2010 that will play a large role in the 2011 recruitment realm. The ever-changing landscape can ...read more
ELT, the training arm of employment law firm Littler Mendelson, recently sponsored a webinar on curbing violence and bullying in the workplace. Speakers were ELT general counsel Reid Bowman and Littler’s Margaret Hart Edwards. In an early poll, 64 percent of audience members reported having...read more
A long-time administrator at a Virginia county school board found herself being moved out of her position in the face of budget cuts and her alleged lack of technology skills.
What happened. The Chesterfield County School Board hired “Marcia” as director of community relations...read more
A Mississippi licensed practical nurse joined the staff of a nursing home in 1992. In 1993, she was diagnosed with recurring transient ischemic attacks (TIAs), which are brief strokes causing temporary loss of awareness, headaches, and dizziness. In July 2005, an elderly patient was injured, and ...read more
A study entitled, “Beyond Dollars: The True Impact of Long-Term Caring, found that nearly half of family members serving as primary caregivers to loved ones have either lost a job or missed career opportunities as a result of their care giving responsibilities.
The study, published ...read more
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has proposed a rule that requires employers to notify employees of their rights under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). The rule is intended to increase employees’ awareness of the NLRA, help workers exercise their rights under the Act, and p...read more
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