Should I Be Doing Video or Skype interviews?
Yesterday’s Advisor featured attorney Jacob Monty’s advice for employers using social media. Today, his take on video and Skype® interviews.
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Cultural Considerations for Global Communications
Yesterday we addressed how to write English for a global audience. For example, using simpler sentences (no semicolons!), avoiding contractions, and writing in present tense are all good form. However, there are also cultural issues to recognize when sending communications internationally. Here are a few reminders:
Be Flexible and Encouraging: More Intern Management Guidelines
By Nick Morpus In yesterday’s Advisor, Capterra Inc.’s Nick Morpus described two of his five guidelines for managing interns at your organization. Today, Morpus elaborates on the final three guidelines.
Olympics offer important lessons for all of us
by Dan Oswald I was watching the 2016 Summer Olympic Games with my family over the weekend. I can’t help but get caught up in everything they represent. There is a certain amount of patriotism that comes with each Olympics as we cheer on the athletes from the United States. I’m sure there are moments […]
Bike-Loving Employees Can Now Ride at Their Desks
You’ve seen the sit/stand desks—and the treadmill desks. Now, joining the ranks of active workstations are bike desks.
A Quick Guide to Using Personality ‘Tests’
By Cyndi Sax, senior vice president, Caliper One of the toughest decisions an HR professional has to make is who to hire. You probably have at least one story of a candidate who aced the interview and had great credentials, but bombed in whatever job he or she was hired to perform. Hiring decisions can […]
New Survey Dispels Millennial Hiring Myths
Yello, a talent acquisition software company, has released its 2016 Yello Recruiting Study. For the study, Yello used its proprietary data and surveyed more than 7,000 students and recent graduates to gauge their perspectives on the hiring process.
Political Talk Heats Up the Workplace
As the race for the White House sees the Republican and Democratic candidates heading to their national conventions, political tension is making its way from the campaign trail into the office. According to a new CareerBuilder survey, three in 10 employers (30%) and nearly one in five employees (17%) have argued with a coworker over […]
Are You Churning Employees? Here’s How to Stop
By Rajeev Behera, CEO of Reflektive Gone are the days when “job hopping” placed a big red flag on a résumé. Today, young employees move up by moving on. Median employee tenure among 25- to 34-year-olds (Millennials) is just 3 years versus 10.4 years among 55- to 64-year-olds (Baby Boomers).
5 Tips to Gauge Cultural Fit During the Interview Process
By Tara Kelly, president and CEO of SPLICE Software