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What was once a taboo subject, is now openly discussed in workplaces across the country. That’s right, we’re talking about employee compensation. With websites, like Glassdoor, that openly showcase the average salary for any given role, gone are the days of trying to keep “pay” a secret. While salary isn’t the only reason why people […]
In episode 81 of HR Works: The Podcast for Human Professionals, we explore the real problem of workplace bullying. A shocking number of employees have experienced bullying and even more have witnessed it. The problem has a powerful effect on employees and therefore on organizations, including everything from engagement and retention to damaging a company’s […]
Winning the war for talent requires a variety of methods to attract jobseekers to your company. One way to attract top talent is through your company’s benefit package. But does your benefits package stand up against the competition?
Millennials have gotten a bad rap over the years—namely the “entitled” generation likes to job hop. As children, many Millennials looked to Barbie for career inspiration. Why? Well, she was a doctor, an astronaut, a chef … you name it, and Barbie probably held that role at some point in her “career.”
As the world continues to become more reliant on technology, more tech-related roles continue to be in high demand. Organizations are increasingly realizing that digital transformation is largely a talent issue. It’s not just tech roles that are in demand, though. Actualizing digital transformation across an enterprise requires the right culture to foster the transformation.
We focus a lot on private-employer hiring trends, but today we’re looking at public employer hiring trends for 2019. The International Professional Management Association for Human Resources (IPMA-HR)—which partners with The Center for State and Local Government Excellence (SLGE) and the National Association of State Personnel Executives on its annual workforce survey—has released a new […]
The people of an organization generate that company’s culture. That includes all of the people from the employees through middle management right up to leadership and to a degree, even the customers. When part of that culture producing chain fails, the whole culture suffers—it doesn’t disappear, it just decays. Naturally then, if an organization’s leadership […]
We’re heading into the second quarter (Q2) of 2019, and more hiring trends are coming to light. Direct-hire, contract, and consulting firm, Brilliant™, released its Q2 2019 Hiring Forecast, which indicates that businesses are reporting an elevated number of open positions in accounting, finance, and IT heading into Q2 2019 with plans to increase hiring over the […]
How are employers supposed to keep people in their roles if large percentages of people are in the wrong job? What could that mean? Luckily our guest is in a great position to answer that question. In this episode, we are joined by Jamie Schneiderman. Jamie is the Founder and CEO of Career Spark, the […]
Every HR professional and recruiter knows the cost of a bad hire. Time and money spent on the hiring and training go down the tube and now you are left with nothing but that same vacancy. Wouldn’t it be nice if you could avoid making bad hires in the first place? In this episode, we […]