Federal Employees And The Weather
The U.S. Office of Personnel Management has provided "detailed guidance" on HR policy exceptions related to severe weather emergencies and natural disasters and their effects on federal employees being able to get to work.

Date:2007-12-21
Posting Interview Questions Online
This is something I am guilty of, as I have posted a number of different kinds of interview questions on line. Nevertheless, one of the community credit bloggers who works as a coder at Starbucks makes a good case for not posting interview questions on line for anyone to get at.

Date:2007-11-15
Eliminate Performance Review Hassles
Discover how to make your company's employee review process both easier — and more effective — in the complimentary eGuide, "The Secret to Effective, No-Hassle Performance Reviews".

Date:2007-10-23
Building a Bridge Between Your Story, Bloggers & People
Blogger relations is a popular topic of discussion these days, not just on the blogosphere, but within the HR departments of PR agencies and businesses alike.

Date:2007-10-18
Managing International Employee Relocation
If your company is interested in hiring the best people out there, you'll need to consider how you'll help with the process of employee relocation. This is considered to be an important part of any package offering from large or mid-sized corporations.

Date: 2007-09-26
Good Staff Are Hard To Find
I've got some good staff on my team - my writers are especially of a good standard, namely because I never went on price, but instead, on quality, hiring experienced writers already working in the UK press industry.

Date: 2007-08-16
"Worker Types" May Increase Success
Vision tests present people with two alternatives ("can you see better through slide A or slide B?"). Multiple-choice tests generally give four options (five, if the professor's interested in making life difficult).

Date: 2007-07-26
How To Combat The Worldwide Skills Shortage
In the past decade, we have experienced a steady erosion of skills amongst people working in various industries, professions and businesses. This includes many large industries like chemicals, petrochemicals, oil refining and the like.

Date: 2007-07-12
Separate Sets Of Rules For Employee Relations
Treating employees fairly is usually a motto of most successful businesses. All too often, however, the reality to employee relations falls short of the ideal standard.

Date: 2007-06-28
Survey: Google Most Desirable Place To Work For Undergrads
According to the results of the 2007 Universum IDEAL Employer Survey, Google edged out Walt Disney as the number one IDEAL Employer for Undergraduate students.

Date: 2007-06-14
Proven Ways to Retain Your Best Employees
Imagine--you have been working late to finish an important project when your sales manager walks into your office and tells you she has been offered a better job. This is the same person you handpicked, trained, and recently gave a pay raise.

Date: 2007-05-31
Where Wellness Fits In Employee Communications
Last week during his keynote at Ragan‘s Corporate Communicators Conference, Steve Crescenzo blasted a host of topics covered by internal communicators. Articles about employee wellness were at the top of Steve's list.

Date: 2007-05-14
Which Benefits Make Employees Happy?
In some geographical regions and in highly competitive industries, labor is a commodity that is not easily renewed or replaced. You want to find and keep good employees to decrease the expense of turnover and training, and employers must be increasingly creative in efforts to "sweeten the deal."

Date: 2007-05-03

Six Tips for Developing Employees
According to a recent poll of HR professionals, only ten percent of managers are fully prepared for the next level. Given this information, is it really a surprise that approximately fifty percent of promotions fail (source: Corporate Leadership Council) when the selection decision is based on current performance level?

Date: 2007-04-19
Creating An Effective Employee Performance Management System
If your employee performance management system is not effective - in other words, your managers aren't meeting their responsibility of getting their employee performance appraisals written, approved and delivered on time - here's the first question to ask: What happens to the manager who doesn't turn in all of his appraisals on time?

Date: 2007-04-05
Holistic Recruiting - A New Age For HR Specialists
Gone are the days of simply getting hired because you have the proper job qualifications and experience. The new HR specialist is looking at a holistic recruiting approach.

Date: 2007-03-20
Create your own WebOffice in just 60 seconds
Try WebOffice now and in less than a minute, you'll see for yourself how over 325,000 people worldwide use WebEx WebOffice every day to run their business on the web.

Date: 2007-03-19
Arizona HR Consultant Advises On Apologizing
I apologize, I am sorry, my mistake, my bad, oops… Part of being human is making mistakes. Many times when we make a mistake it causes harm to others either physically or emotionally, and as a result, we find our selves in a situation where we must apologize for those mistakes.

Date: 2007-03-15
The Secret to Effective, No-Hassle Performance Reviews
Discover how to make your company’s employee review process both easier - and more effective - in the complimentary eGuide, "The Secret to Effective, No-Hassle Performance Reviews".

Date: 2007-03-12
HR Outsourcing Maintains Double-Digit Growth
Human Resources gained a permanent role in the American workplace during the 1950s, as the evolution of employment-related laws and sociological trends took shape.

Date: 2007-03-01
Placement & Talent Management
Whatever happened to the concept of "placement?" I can remember, in the not too distant past, talking with client organizations about "selection and placement."

Date: 2007-02-15
Encourage Career Self-Management - Take The Heat Off Of HR
Is tackling talent management one of your goals this year? Employees are becoming more demanding, and topping their list is professional growth and development.

Date: 2007-02-08
How Bad Hires Can Hurt Your Business
What's worse - hiring the wrong person or not hiring anyone at all? Companies can become almost desperate to hire someone, but filling a position with a "warm body" can be worse that leaving the position vacant.

Date: 2007-01-25
The Secret to Effective, No-Hassle Performance Reviews
Discover how to make your company’s employee review process both easier - and more effective - in the complimentary eGuide, "The Secret to Effective, No-Hassle Performance Reviews".

Date: 2007-01-22
On The Job Training For More Effective Managers
Every serious manager and supervisor knows HR seminars and trainings are not just perfect excuses for yet another powerpoint presentation and coffee-and-biscuit break.

Date: 2007-01-18
A Balance Between HR And Risk Management?
Human Resources Directors are often charged with hiring employees, ensuring that the employee is properly trained, and delivering the bad news when the employee is not working out.

Date: 2007-01-04
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