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Retaining a High-Performance Workforce: The Clock is Ticking
Where are you going to come up with a high-performance workforce to implement your plan? Ordinarily, these are routine matters, but unfortunately, these are not ordinary times. Are you going to have the staff required to run your company for the long term? The clock is ticking!
Geography, Relocation, and Travel Affecting Your Job Search?
Preparing for a better job and the subsequent advancement of your career involves many considerations. In my previous article, I asked the question, “Are you really a top candidate?” In this article, I’m asking, “If a great job was far away, would you be able to take it?” As usual, there are a number of […]
Are You Really a Top Candidate?
Are you really a top candidate? This means that you’re in the top 30% of your industry. Be honest with yourself and with me. Let me articulate what it means to be in the top 30%. If you’re going to get top dollar, you’ll need to show the following…
Who’s On Your ‘Go-Ahead’ Team? – Evaluating Your Team
Many organizations have slimmed down by letting go extraneous staff and retaining only those employees who were necessary to keep operations afloat. Now you’ll need to determine who is on your “Go-ahead” Team to propel your business to success.
Top 8 Questions to Improve Your Reference Checks
Reference checks on a potential hire can either be a routine matter to complete their file or a way to resolve any concerns that the hiring team might have. It all comes down to your approach. Below are examples of questions that can provide some insight. The example questions are in bold type, and the […]
What’s Your Staffing Strategy?
Due to declining demand for products and services, there have been cuts in wages, elimination of positions and other methods of reducing costs. Companies will need to re-staff. Even though hourly staff may be easy to recall, some of the technical and managerial professionals may not be available.
4 Ways to Exploring your Career Options and Maintaining Confidentiality
“Loose lips sink ships” and often get people fired. When exploring job options, don’t let the word get to your employer, boss, customers or vendors. You might not find the right opportunity and no good can come from the people I just listed knowing that you’re not fully content at work. If you want to […]
Common Hiring Mistakes: The Never-Ending Interview Process
People like companies where decisions are made in a timely manner. This prompts a couple of questions. Do you have an efficient and effective interview process, and second, is this process effectively communicated to all the participants, including the candidates?
Facebook Etiquette for the Savvy Job Seeker
By Dan Simmons By this time, I imagine you probably know certain things that you should and should not be doing on your social media platforms. Facebook is different than all other social media sites in that it was designed for social interaction before it began diving into the world of advertisements, marketing and job […]