How to Accurately Describe Job Duties in Job Descriptions
Job descriptions, although not essential, can be very helpful when hiring a new employee. But it is important that a job description accurately reflect the current job duties of the position you want to [more…]
Why You Didn't Get the Job: Real Hiring Managers Spill Their Secrets
Hiring managers were interviewed to find out the real reasons good applicants can get the ax — and seven revealed how potential hires they’ve interviewed have talked themselves out of a paycheck. [more…]
Best Practices for Hiring
People are the heart of every business. The better people you hire, the better business you have. Some people are just meant to be in their jobs. You may know such individuals — someone who thrives as [more…]
Five Steps to Better Interviewing
When it comes right down to it, your organization’s success depends in large part on the quality of the people you employ. Recruiting and hiring the very best people — and terminating the ones who aren’t [more…]
Best Practices for Firing Employees
Involuntary terminations—firings or layoffs—are seldom pleasant experiences for either manager or employee, but it’s more unpleasant for everyone involved if you wait too long to let someone go. Involuntary [more…]
The Pros and Cons of Outsourcing
Outsourcing is the practice of turning over an entire function (shipping, payroll, benefits administration, security, computer networking) to an outside specialist. In many cases, the outside firm’s employees [more…]
How to Process Résumés More Effectively
The ability to process résumés effectively is a key element in improving human resources efficiency. This means quickly separating the best candidates from the worst. Based on résumés alone, you’d think [more…]
How Efficient Is Your Hiring Process?
You should examine the efficiency of your hiring process. People generally assume that when hiring decisions go wrong, the fault lies with bad judgment during the interview process. However, this view [more…]
Put People First When Setting HR Goals
Consider two aspects of contemporary business. On the one hand, in order to thrive, your organization must be diligent, competitive, and keenly focused on bottom-line results. But at the same time, most [more…]
Set Up an Efficient Onboarding Process for New Employees
Your onboarding program for new employees can be as elaborate as a six-week combination training and boot camp or as simple as a series of scheduled one-on-one conversations between the new employee and [more…]
