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By Stacey Hawley, The Credo Company Companies endeavor to hire the right candidates, with the right skills, right qualifications and right cultural fit, for their organizations. Finding the right candidates is critical. Recruitment is costly. Turnover is even more costly (typically two times the annual salary and benefits of a role).
In yesterday’s Advisor, BLR® Legal Editor Jasmin Rojas, JD, shared some tips on how to prevent psychiatric injuries in the workplace; today, the rest of Rojas’s guidance for employers to help promote employee mental health.
In yesterday’s article, I discussed Susan Vitale’s RecruitCon 2018 session on the Outlook on the 2025 Workplace: How to Attract the Next Generation of Talent by Effectively Recruiting Millennials and Gen Z. In this article, I’ll focus on the consumer mindset to the recruiting process and how you can ensure your candidates get a good experience.
Last week we began to look at how to leverage recent college graduates into great workers for your organization. Today we’ll look at how to take those graduates and turn them into high performers.
Most of the plans the IRS has checked for compliance with the grandfathering requirements of 401(k) money purchase pension plans had acted appropriately, says the agency’s Employee Plans Compliance Unit. However, some plans made reporting mistakes on their annual Forms 5500. The 401(k) Money Purchase Pension Plan project is a study the EPCU conducted to […]
In yesterday’s Advisor, we reviewed some highlights from CareerBuilder’s report, “The Changing Face of U.S. Jobs”; today, more news from the report on how shifts in demographics have changed the makeup of the workforce in the past 14 years.
Have you ever had so much pride in your company that you were willing to get a tattoo of your company’s logo? Tattoos are becoming ever more popular in the workforce as younger generations are getting more career-oriented jobs. One real estate company, Rapid Realty, in New York, is taking the tattoo idea to a […]
The past few years have seen excellent strides toward diversity across organizations in the United States. However, many issues remain. For example, Amazon’s recruiting algorithm was taken offline last year because it was accidentally creating bias. And, while many organizations are aware of the need for diversity, some don’t seem equipped to act.
What can employers do to help ensure the success of digital mindfulness training? It’s no secret that employees can get easily distracted by technology, but a new survey by ComPsych® Corporation, a provider of employee assistance programs, illustrates how pervasive the problem is. In fact, 88% of employees acknowledge that they browse social media outlets […]
Employers tout the importance of an engaged workforce—a place where employees are devoted, eager, interested in their jobs and happy to boot. But how much of a payoff does a nominally engaged workforce provide? Can an engaged workforce still be steeped in drama that holds an organization back? Nicole Price, vice president of training for […]