More Tips for Developing Your Employees as Your Company Is Downsizing
Continuing from yesterday’s post, here are more tips and best practices for how you can continue developing your employees and programs as your company is downsizing.
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Going Beyond the Interview: Testing and Work Samples
In part one, we noted that hiring decisions are imperfect. Despite our diligent efforts, it is quite difficult to consistently get the best candidates who stick around long term. We started to look at some ways to go beyond the standard interview process to further screen candidates in the hopes of making better hiring decisions. […]
How to Overcome the Tech Skills Shortage? Invest in Training Your Current Workforce
The U.S. job market is approaching full employment, and there is a shortage of talent specifically for technology-focused jobs. As demand for tech skills worldwide grows exponentially, the supply of qualified software developers, coders, and engineers cannot satisfy employers’ hiring needs.
Employee Communications and HR Requires Better, Smarter Data Intelligence—Here’s Why
In today’s modern and digital workplace, it’s becoming increasingly important for HR leaders to have concrete justification around how and why they form their strategies, particularly when it comes to employee communications and engagement. Much like MLB and NBA sports teams that have embraced the sabermetric revolution (think Moneyball), HR teams need to eliminate guesswork […]
More Ways to Attract Teen Candidates for Seasonal Work
Yesterday we began to explore how to attract, hire, and train seasonal teen workers. Today, we have a few more tips on that topic.
6 Ways to Introduce A Digital Detox to Your Employees (and Why it Could Boost Productivity)
Technology unquestionably makes our working lives easier, adding flexibility and convenience—but does it make us happier in the office?
Attracting, Hiring, and Training Minors for Seasonal Work
When we talk about the workforce, it’s easy to assume we mean adults. However, over 1.5 million teens are currently working in the United States. Many of those teens are minors (aged 13 to 18 years old) and they prefer seasonal work because it works well with their school schedules and other commitments.
Executives Think the War for Talent Will Rage On, Says Survey
New research shows that most executives believe that competition for talent will ramp up throughout the remainder of 2018.
A New Training Paradigm: Learning in the Flow
Redefining corporate learning and embedding it into the DNA of the organization entails shifting one’s mind-set to think of training and development not as something “to be done” (i.e., an event that delivers knowledge), but as something “that is” (i.e., a platform for powering continuous growth). This platform ultimately enables individuals and the organization “to […]
Continuing Employee Development as Your Company Is Downsizing
Keeping morale high and learning commonplace and desirable across your organization as it’s downsizing and letting employees go is no simple task—and can, of course, only happen after you’ve already proved that your L&D department is essential to your organization and its already stretched budget.