There is no question that the contingent workforce continues to grow. And, why wouldn’t it? A contingent workforce offers organizations a litany of benefits. If you want to help reduce liability, manage costs and simplify the tracking and accounting of your workforce you have traveled down the right path. So, as a conscientious corporate executive…
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The greatest predictor of profitability for businesses is customer loyalty and the greatest predictor of customer loyalty is employee engagement. Thought leader and author of The Culture Cycle, James Heskett, demonstrates how an effective culture can account for up to half of the differential in performance between organizations in the same industry. Today the intangible…
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It’s no secret; it’s a candidate’s market. The more competition there is for a group of candidates, the more recruiting effort is required to attract and hire them. Here are the top 5 tips for recruiting candidates in high demand: 1. Know your product The first step in the recruiting process is getting to know…
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This year’s employee engagement forecast results are in from Salary.com. According to the popular site, your employees are 23% happier with their job than they were in 2013, but 83% say that they will still actively look for a new position in 2014. The January Job Seekers survey, taken by over 1,200 people, asked how currently employed…
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Every year around the holidays, our non-Jewish friends and coworkers start asking a lot of questions about Hanukkah. For the most part, people know at least a little bit about our eight crazy nights, but may not really know the basics. In an effort to share in our festivities (that start tonight at sundown) we…
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We talk to our clients a lot about corporate culture and the value that hiring for alignment to the corporate culture can have on an organization. It is proven that by on-boarding individuals that share a similar set of values, beliefs and goals there is greater employee engagement, higher productivity, and longer tenure. While it’s…
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Our friends at Good.co are creating some pretty amazing tools. Employee engagement is hot right now, not just because it’s the buzz term of choice, but because employers AND employees want to be happy. Good.co has created a Fit Test that assesses who you are and how you think, resulting in archetypes that categorize your…
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Welcome to my torture chamber- I hope you don’t mind that I’ll be drilling out your tooth, without Novocaine! For many of us job applicants, we’re often made to feel this way before, during, and after a job interview. But in this robust job market for knowledge workers, the stakes have changed. The interview process…
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Have you ever been in an interview or meeting, thrown out a strategically placed buzz word, and then slowly watched the eyes of the person you’re speaking with glaze over? I definitely have. It’s not a good feeling, and it has taken some time to figure out exactly what I was doing wrong. In the…
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“Leadership is not so much about technique and methods, as it is about opening the heart. Leadership is about inspiration—of oneself and of others. Great leadership is about human experiences, not processes. Leadership is not a formula or a program, it is a human activity that comes from the heart and considers the hearts of…
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