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Monthly Archives: July 2010

Cutting Costs

5 Easy Ways to Lower Healthcare Costs: More Lessons from SHRM 2010

Look at any “best places to work” list, and you’ll notice that most of the companies listed tend to share the same four employee benefit offerings, SHRM’s Steven Williams pointed out during his presentation on employee benefit programs for the organization’s annual conference in San Diego last month: 1) Health care; 2) Work/life balance; 3) Unique or unusual benefits; and 4) Leave. Continue reading

By in Benefits, Building a Best Place to Work, Employee Engagement, Employee Wellness, Events, Health Care, SHRM 2010, Talent Acquisition

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Get Creative, Think Inside the Box: Lessons from SHRM 2010

The last thing you might expect to hear when walking into a presentation about how to inspire creativity from your employees is: “Tell your employees to think inside the box”…and yet, that’s pretty much the advice Disney’s business program consultant, Scott Milligan, had for the audience when he presented at SHRM 2010 in San Diego last month. Continue reading

By in Employee Engagement, Events, SHRM 2010, Talent Acquisition

Jobs Delivered in 30 Minutes or Less…And more from this week’s news

While you were busy announcing your engagement the old-fashioned way, breaking – or more likely saving - hearts all over the world, or actually NOT imagining that you were seeing the Old Spice guy everywhere yesterday, here’s what else was happening in the world of workforce management this week… Continue reading

By in Week in Review

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Interviewing Do’s and Don’t’s: Lessons from SHRM 2010

“The only way to measure a candidate is to measure every single candidate with the same yardstick,” Nancy Newell, principal at Nth Degree Consulting told an audience during her panel “Beyond Behavioral Interviewing: Asking the RIGHT Questions, Evaluating the Answers,” at he annual Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM) Conference in San Diego last month. Continue reading

By in Events, Interviewing, SHRM 2010

Social Media Infographic: Job Seeker Perceptions and Expectations

Personified, a division of CareerBuilder, recently surveyed more than 2,500 active and passive job seekers nationwide across industries.

Here’s what we found: Continue reading

By in Social Media

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Benefits are Only as Good as the Efforts to Promote Them: Lessons from SHRM 2010

You also need to communicate those benefits, too.

That was the message Steven Williams, Director of E-Media Innovations and Business Development at the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), had for his audience during his presentation, “Employee Benefits: Just How Competitive Is Your Company?” at SHRM’s annual conference in San Diego last month. Continue reading

By in Employee Engagement, Employment Branding, Events, Retention, SHRM 2010, Talent Acquisition

Employing Wisdom: Thoughts on Leadership from Top Executives

Over the years, CareerBuilder has spoken with some of the industry’s most successful and influential leaders as part of our CareerBuilder Leadership Series to discuss the importance of attracting the right talent in order to maintain success. Time and again, these discussions reiterate the important role people play on every aspect of the business – from shaping the way these leaders lead to driving organizational growth, to increasing the bottom line. Continue reading

By in CareerBuilder Leadership Series, Forecasts, Insights & Trends, Leadership Development

Employers don’t want your dirty lungs…And more news from this week

While you were busy humbly announcing a career decision, making what is probably a wise career decision, or wondering if you still even have a career, here’s what else was happening in the world of workforce management this week…

Employers are trying to take all of the fun out of getting lung cancer Continue reading.

By in Week in Review

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Many Workers are Becoming More Fit — but Where Do Employers Fit In?

Okay, not every professional eats the healthiest things imaginable (or is free of legal troubles, for that matter) — a la competitive hot dog eater Takeru Kobayashi. However, according to the results of a new CareerBuilder survey of more than 4,400 workers, many folks are reaching less for the potato chips and more for the straight-up potatoes; less for the cigarettes and more for the treadmill. Continue reading

By in Benefits, Employee Engagement, Employee Wellness, Survey Results

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7 Habits of Highly Successful Corporate Wellness Programs

Sorting through all the fabulous feedback we received after asking readers to share what their companies are doing to promote employee wellness, we noticed a few shared characteristics among the various initiatives readers discussed.

Below are seven standout traits that a vast number of these wellness programs share, with examples of how – in our readers’ own words – companies’ employee wellness programs embody these traits. Continue reading

By in Benefits, Employee Engagement, Employee Wellness, Health Care, Retention, Talent Acquisition

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