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How to Introduce a New Employee to Your Corporate Culture

Corporate culture means the environment in which your employees spend their time. Introduce your business's corporate culture to a new employee by following these tips, which can help you introduce your [more…]

How to Decide on a Method of Employee Training

You may need to train your new employees (and current employees) in a particular business area. Choose a training method that's appropriate for your employees, as well as the area in which you're training [more…]

How to Plan a Staffing Strategy

Strategic staffing begins with assessing your business's employee needs in the context of your business priorities. Hire employees based on your staffing strategy, which is a mindset rather than a process [more…]

How to Write a Job Description

The job description has long been the bread-and-butter tool of business hiring. Job descriptions that fail to accurately capture the essence of your business's open job position can lead to some serious [more…]

Creating a Successful Internal Hiring Process

Recruiting from within your business's employee ranks helps keep employee morale and motivation levels high. But limiting your business's recruiting search to internal candidates limits the candidates [more…]

How to Evaluate Job Applicants

No set rules exist for evaluating job applicants — other than common sense. But your business needs some kind of applicant-evaluation system or protocol in place before resumés or applications begin to [more…]

How to Read Job Applicants' Resumés

Anyone who does any research at all into how to find a job knows how to write a resumé that puts him in the best light. Based on resumés alone, you'd think that all job applicants are such outstanding [more…]

Testing Your Business's Job Applicants

Tests measure work-relevant aspects of a job applicant for your business. Choose the appropriate tests to figure out a job applicant's fit with your business and the job you have available. Employment [more…]

How to Use Phone Interviews to Narrow Job Candidates

Conducting a telephone interview can help you narrow down the list of job applicants to call in for an interview. Before calling a job applicant, review the resumé and cover letter carefully, noting questions [more…]

Preparing Yourself to Conduct a Job Interview

When you're to the final interviewing stages of hiring an employee, you need to prepare before you conduct the job interview. How well-prepared you are affects what you can take away from those interviews [more…]

How to Conduct a Job Interview

When meeting a job interview candidate face-to-face for the first time, put the applicant at ease. View the first minutes of the interview as an opportunity to build rapport with the candidate before you [more…]

Fifteen Questions to Ask at a Job Interview

What makes a job interview question “good”? A good job interview question gives you the specific information about a job applicant that you need to make a sound hiring decision and helps you gain insight [more…]

How to Select the Right Applicant for the Job

To select the right employee for the job you're filling, you need to take several factors about the applicants and the job itself into consideration. Follow these key principles in order to hire the right [more…]

How to Check a Job Applicant's References

References from a job applicant's past employers help you separate job applicants with good references — meaning good employment records — from others who have a less positive job performance history. [more…]

How to Offer a Job to an Applicant

After you decide which job applicant you want to hire, you need to take care in how you offer the job to that person. If you don't make the actual job offer to the applicant carefully, you can lose the [more…]

How to Create Your Business's Policy and Procedures Manual

Keep your business's basic procedures and policies well documented. Whenever a policy or procedure question comes up, your business's employees can check this manual. Here are some of the things you'll [more…]

How to Measure the Results of Employee Training

Measuring the results of an employee training process can be problematic. It’s generally acknowledged, for example, that one of the primary benefits of employee training is that it enhances morale. But [more…]

Important Human Resource-Related Federal Laws

These key human resource-related federal laws cover areas like discrimination and civil rights, health care coverage, fair wages, employee privacy, training, and issues regarding citizenship: [more…]

Web Sites for HR Help

A tremendous amount of valuable human resource information is available to you through the Internet. Check out these five Web sites that provide more manageable general HR information: [more…]

Human Resources Kit For Dummies Cheat Sheet

Employers and employees both need to be up to date on essential federal laws and critical issues related to human resources. Many reliable Web sites provide information and insight on a variety of HR topics [more…]

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