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Yesterday’s Advisor featured tips from Heather Polivka for building your brand with employee ambassadors. Today we will discuss more of her tips, including software to help training and levels of employee involvement. Polivka, senior director of Global Employer Branding & Marketing at United Health Group, offered her branding tips at the HR Technology Conference held […]
As the working world continues to evolve into a strange dichotomy—with the lowest unemployment rates since 2008 and at the same time employees’ insecurity about their jobs and their financial situations—the number of benefits you offer can play an important role in employee retention.
By Tony Ventrice
In yesterday’s Advisor, we found key strategies for the new succession planning obligations. Today, identifying high potentials … and some meaningful help with the basis for all succession planning, job descriptions. Again, we’ve turned to BLR’s newly-published Top 10 Best Practices in HR Management for 2012 for guidance. Identifying Key Positions and Skills A critical […]
We’re currently experiencing one of the lowest unemployment rates for veterans in the United States since the Great Recession of the early 2000s, at 3.7%. However, veterans are still extremely underemployed, meaning that they’re not applying for or acquiring jobs that truly meet their experiences, strengths, skill sets, and capabilities.
By Michael F. Brown In yesterday’s Advisor, Michael F. Brown of the Camden Consulting Group presented a few strategies for small companies looking to attract and retain talent. Today Brown elaborates on more strategies, from training and development to rewarding talent.
When interviewing a potential new hire, it’s standard procedure for a Human Resources professional to assess the candidate as compared to a list of key skills and personal characteristics needed for the job. In one of our most popular articles on the HR Daily Advisor, (now with images!), we turn the tables on the profession, […]
by Dan Oswald Have you ever thought about what employees really want from a company and a manager? What is it that really makes employees feel satisfied in their work? Among other things, having a manager who cares about them as people is part of being happy at work. So when I heard about Liberty […]
HR’s challenge: making sure employees are not working off the clock (working too much) while at the same time, making sure that they work when they are getting paid (working too little). And to make it a little tougher, there’s a new sheriff in town, says attorney Bryan D. LeMoine. And here’s her message: “I […]
Kidnapping day laborers = possible jail time for Dwight; giving Oscar another paid vacation and use of a company car= $15,000; settling claims related to Andy’s sex-ed course = more than just some free pizza; watching Michael try to convince an elderly stranger that they were once lovers = priceless. Between Michael tracking down his former girlfriends […]