We’ve all heard the evils of outsourcing when it comes to cutting jobs for local employees. But if you’re on the other side of the desk, outsourcing certain functions ...
In a blog I posted last month, we looked at the unemployment numbers as of the end of the month of January, and the slow crawl it was making for the better. Well, just last week, ...
These days, it’s becoming a real challenge to hold on to your job. What with eager young job applicants nipping at your heels with lower salary and benefit expectations, ...
Are you having a problem keeping employees? Is your turnover like a revolving door? Does it seem as if you no sooner get an employee trained and they ...
This morning’s report from ADP said the U.S. economy added 209,000 private sector jobs last month, adding to the growing confidence in the steady, if slow improvement in ...
Your employees have worked hard for you all year. You would like to reward them, but with the economy down, you can’t really afford raises. You don’t want ...
There is much confusion with some people when it comes to the understanding of collecting unemployment benefits, so let us take a look as some basics of that system. Each ...
Expectations are running high that the U.S. government’s jobs report this Friday will again show more than 200,000 new jobs were added to the economy last month. If it turns ...
If you’re interested in pursuing a career in genetics, The University of California at Davis recently announced the construction of a new 10,000 square foot genome ...
Telecommuting can attract and retain employees. It can even save you money. But not all employees or companies are cut out for virtual work.
Providing the tools and technology ...
There is going to be an exodus of workers soon from businesses all across the U.S. It seems that for all the work recruiters do at the front end, organizations are undoing it at ...
Succession Planning For the Future
Many companies are beginning to recognize the importance of closely monitoring their human capital to ensure the continued growth and support ...
John Smith began 2010 with the hope that hiring would ramp up slowly over the year and that he would be able to re-establish his crackerjack sourcing team that was eliminated in ...
"Give me a job, give me security, give me a chance to survive. I’m just a poor soul in the unemployment line. My God I’m hardly alive.”
When Styx first sang that 32 years ago, ...
Without even knowing the name of your organization I can predict that throughout the most recent downturn you let your employee referral program “go,” so to speak. By failing to ...
In a recent article published by Forbes, “Keeping Ex-Employees Brand Loyal,” the author describes some of the dos and don’ts as to what companies can and should do to protect ...
Looking back over the last 18 to 24 months, the steady cost consciousness due to declines in revenue and increased operating costs led to job losses at a rapid rate, as well as ...
Using the recession as an excuse, organization after organization has cut out or reduced their tuition reimbursement programs and their support for additional education. But, I ...
Good people know that even in a recession, they can find another position.
In fact, signs point to increased opportunities for currently employed people with specific skills ...
Employers always seem to be asking me, "What in the world is Gen Y thinking when they do some of the things they do at work?" As a researcher and member of Gen Y, which I define ...
