Positive Recruiting Attitude Equals Positive Results Finding good help can certainly be a challenge, but a poor attitude during the recruiting process can definitely make it even more difficult. When interviewing potential candidates for your company, their attitude will likely play a role in your decision of whether or not to bring them aboard. After [...]
Setting Your Team Up for Success Developing teamwork and culture: One would think success would be commonplace, a daily occurrence. Yet there have been literally thousands of self-help books written about teams, all giving solid advice how to form the most effective teams and achieve their collective goals. So why it is that so few [...]
Women Stepping to the Forefront in the Workplace How many women work in your company? With the recent focus on equality and diversity chances are it has been a frequent topic of discussion, especially during the month of March, which is Women’s History Month. Women are an invaluable part of today’s workforce bringing unique experiences [...]
Working from Home and the Modern Workplace We have all heard the axiom ‘the Stone Age did not end because we ran out of stones; it ended because of advances in technology, such as brass tools becoming more effective than stones’. The same applies to the modern definitions of ‘work’ and ‘workplace’. The age of [...]
Employers Separating Themselves from the Pack in Recruiting The Employer – Managing Your Reputation. In Part 1 of our “Primer” we laid out that the various parties involved in the hiring process (Job-Seeker; Hiring Manager; Human Resources/Legal; Senior Management; Friends and Family) are part of a communal process and that each has responsibilities to ensure that [...]
Paying Women their Worth in the Workplace Philadelphia City Council is currently considering a new bill that would make it illegal for Philadelphia employers to ask prospective candidates about their past salary. The reasoning driving this potential new law is the belief that by asking prospective job seekers about their previous salary history employers will [...]
Finding and Hiring the Best Employees How to Attract Right Candidates for your Job Openings In Part one of our “Primer” we laid out that the various parties involved in the hiring process (Job-Seeker; Hiring Manager; Human Resources/Legal; Senior Management; Friends and Family) who are part of a communal process and that each has responsibilities [...]
The Importance of Good Communication Communication: the imparting or interchange of thoughts, opinions, or information by speech, writing, or signs. Communication, it is a simple enough word. Why can it be so difficult? Whether it be in your personal or professional life there are different personality types, moods, and experiences that color every single conversation [...]
The Hard Truth About "The Office" The Office is one of my favorite television shows of all time. I’ll admit that I didn’t watch it when it was originally on tv, I ended up binge watching it on Netflix, and I was a bit wary with how awkward and clumsy Season 1 felt. But once [...]
Self-Evaluating your Career So you’ve been with your company for a few years or more now, but you’re starting to think something has left the relationship. You are good at what you do and maybe even a bit comfortable in your role but something is missing. Is it time to buck-up and bear-down or is [...]
