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Monthly Archives: January 2011

Facebook Continues to Terrorize Corporate America…And More News From This Week

While you were busy realizing you’ve been reading the wrong horoscope all your life,  thinking it was about damn time you got some credit for something, or planning your return to the Big Game, here’s what was happening in the world of workforce management this week…  Continue reading

Let’s Leave This One Out of the Guinness Book of World Records 2010 was a record-breaking year in terms of lawsuits filed by private-sector workers on employers on charges of discrimination.

By in In Review, Insights & Trends, Week in Review

The Great Workplace

Creating a Great Place to Work: Insights from the Authors of “The Great Workplace”

“The way in which we understand great workplaces is based up on relationships in the workplace,” says Michael Burchell, corporate Vice President with The Great Place to Work® Institute . “So a great place to work is one that has a high degree of trust between employees and leaders, a great deal of pride between employees and their work, and a great deal of camaraderie between employees and other employees.”

Burchell would be the person to ask. Continue reading

By in Building a Best Place to Work, Leadership Development, Retention, Talent Acquisition

interview mistake

Candidates’ Most Unusual Interview Mistakes

If your company is currently hiring, you’re probably also doing a lot of interviewing as well. In most cases, the person who walks through your door is a complete stranger. What happens next is anyone’s guess. As your candidate gets ready to walk into your office, he or she is most likely to: Continue reading

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By in Interviewing, Selection, Survey Results, Talent Acquisition

Classic business metaphor of carrot on a stick

What Really Motivates Your Employees? A Scientific Perspective

Last month, I spoke with Heidi Grant Halvorson, author of the recently released book, SUCCEED: How We Can Reach Our Goals, which takes a unique approach to helping people achieve success: unlike other motivational books that rely on personal experiences and anecdotes to prove a point, SUCCEED draws from years of  scientific studies to uncover practical but effective strategies that have been proven to help people from all walks of life achieve even their most hard-to-reach goals. Continue reading

By in Building a Best Place to Work, Leadership Development, Talent Acquisition

CareerBuilder's Talent Network

Fill Your Pipeline with the Best and Brightest Talent: Introducing Talent Network

Just a couple of years ago, the world watched as Wall Street began to rapidly unravel, and we continued to watch as the weeks and months to follow showed further signs of trouble and revealed cracks in our economy that many of us hadn’t the slightest idea existed. Continue reading

By in CareerBuilder Products, Economy, Employee Engagement, Innovation, Insights & Trends, Talent Acquisition, Technology

Workers you want to hire

The Top 6 Myths About Talent: Must Knows for Your Employment Brand

This post originally appeared on TLNT, an HR blog about “The Business of HR,” with news, insight, and topical information from experts and thought leaders in HR, talent management, and all areas related to HR and managing a workforce.

As the nation’s economy begins to stabilize following one of the deepest recessions felt across the globe, employers are shifting their focus from cost containment to growth and have begun to hire again. Continue reading

By in Employment Branding, Talent Acquisition

Week in Review

Glasses Good, Tears Bad…And More News From This Week

While you were busy beating the odds of one in 178 million, eagerly awaiting M. Night Shyamalan to announce he’s making a movie about this (if the world doesn’t end first), or wrongly believing there aren’t enough reality shows in general (and about this family in particular),here’s what was happening in the world of workforce management this week… Continue reading

Lois Lane Not the Only One Fooled by Glasses Beware job candidates who wear glasses to interviews.

By in In Review, Insights & Trends, Week in Review

Business dispute

In Your Face, November: December’s Employment Report Shows Improvement

Dropping to 9.4 percent in December, the nation’s unemployment rate is now at its lowest level since April 2009, according to the Labor Department’s employment situation report for December. Good news, yes? Well…

While much of that .4 percent decrease represents those people who are no longer unemployed (yay!), it also represents those people who gave up their job search last month (boo!). Continue reading

By in BLS Reports, Economy, Insights & Trends

Justin Bieber-style haircut

Justin Bieber’s Got Nothing on These: Top 10 Hiring and Workplace Trends to Watch in 2011

What do drive-in movie theater dates, Hypercolor t-shirts, and Justin Bieber-inspired haircuts have in common? They’re all trends that have passed through our lives over the years (or, in some cases, are still in our lives). New trends seep into our everyday existence all the time, and the world of hiring and the workplace is no exception. Continue reading

By in Economy, Retention, Survey Results, Talent Acquisition

Man and woman arguing because he is doing work in bed

Might As Well Face It, You’re Addicted To… Work? How to Help Yourself — and Your Employees — Deal

Are you one of those people addicted, not to love as Robert Palmer once claimed you were, but to work? Or worse yet, are your own employees stuck to their ergonomic yet stifling cubicle chairs, desperately looking for you to help them regain a sense of balance? Continue reading

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

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