Employment

Hiring A New Assistant
Should I hire a new administrative assistant? What are my other options?

Business Employment Recruiting Techniques
Some pointers and food for thought for business owners in need of finding good help.

Why Corporations Need To Care About The Commute
You would think corporations have enough to concern themselves about without also taking on the commute of their employees. How far someone lives from work should certainly be his or her own concern, shouldn’t it? Or should it?

Human Resources What Drives An Organization
The field of Human Behavior Organization emphasizes the importance of human resources in any business organization. The business filed offers too much focus on manpower development for it is the lifeblood of an existing industry.

Workplace Violence A Growing Concern
Workplace violence has become one of the biggest concerns for managers, corporate executives and Human Resource Departments in the past several years. In fact, the shear number of incidents of workplace violence is staggering...

Workplace Violence 8 Tips For Spotting Early Warning Signs
One of the greatest threats facing both employees and the companies they work for, is workplace violence. It has become the leading cause of death for women and the second leading for men, following closely behind motor vehicle accidents.

Why Human Resources Training Is Essential For Your Business
In todays business world proper training in human resources is imperative. Any company with aspirations of success should insist that their managers and supervisors attend HR training.

An Environment that Motivates Employees
Would you like to find out what those-in-the-know have to say about employee motivation? The information in the article below comes straight from well-informed experts with special knowledge about employee motivation.

Entertain Your Staff For Larger Profits
Today’s employees, particularly those involved with corporate finance and other major business sectors, are leaning more towards corporate event management and corporate entertainment as a key source of contentment and happiness at work...

Employee Retention Building Commitment
A committed employee is extraordinarily valuable. You can gain staff commitment by meeting people’s key needs: paying attention to people at all levels; trusting and being trusted; tolerating individuality; and creating a blame-free, can-do culture...

Boost Employee Morale With An Employee Incentive Program
Is there a lull in your office? Are your employees not satisfied anymore with the way that you are manning the place? Good managers know from their own observations that employee attitude affects their work and eventually the company’s output...

Setting Expectations of Success For That New Employee
Recruitment is expensive and challenging. Setting some standards early on will help you do a better job and also show how successful you are.

Do They Know What You Want Job Descriptions and How to Make Them Work
We often assume someone knows what you want them to do - research tells us otherwise. Having clear results agreed in advance is a simple process and will produce significant benefits.

The Employers Role in Verifying Employment
Paperwork. Nobody likes it, but everyone has to do it. Documentation on a new hire can be the most cumbersome, but is an absolute must. Detailed paperwork not only allows the new employee to collect a paycheck and be eligible for fringe benefits, it protects you, the employer.

Recruitment Getting it Right More Often
Recruiting is one of the most important tasks undertaken by managers yet very follow a consistent process. to get the best results there are some key steps to follow - everytime.

Recruiting Methods to Help Find Ideal Employees
If you are trying to fill positions within your company with the highest quality personnel that are the best match for your team and company there are some recruiting methods that will yield more positive matches and more successful recruiting endeavors...

Retirement Jobs Good News for Older Workers
Older workers offer a potentially attractive solution to both short- and long-term staffing challenges.

Employment Opportunity Job Mercenary Without Knowing It
What you communicate to an employer below the radar is often more telling that what you say out loud.

Employee Evaluations Four Tips to Help Managers with Performance Review Conversations
Managers talk with the people on their teams every day. Whatever the topic, most of these conversations happen with no stress, little anxiety, and minimal tension. But when the conversation is about an employee’s performance, anxieties often abound. Here are four ways to reduce the tension and defensiveness that too often surround performance evaluations.

Poor Performing Employees Severely Impact Productivity
In business there are two very necessary and very different forces which must be balanced so that business will perform perfectly - people and processes. But far too often they are not in balance. CEO’s are ranking people issues as one of their major concerns in 2005 as they struggle with productivity, profits, and labor shortages. Robert A. Cameron & Associates takes a new approach to quantifying and solving this growing business issue.

Stop the Revolving Door of Employee Turnover
Stop the revolving door of employee turnover: Employee assessment tools have advanced so companies can now more effectively identify, select, and retain top performing employees.

Who Comes First The Customer or Employee
The commonly held view that the customer comes first is worth a close look. Think about the last time you received less than satisfactory customer service. What caused it? Probably an employee! Either directly, bad manners and a "dont care" attitude, or by not addressing your needs - "sorry, I cant handle that order, youll have to call another number".

Jobs And Over Aged Applicants
Though some employers would prefer a younger workforce, the older applicants still have a wide variety of career choices to choose from.

Why Effective Job Descriptions Make Good Business Sense
Most neophyte workers or even freshly graduated members of the workforce will jump into jobs without knowing their job descriptions. This practice is understandable. Many of these fresh graduates are just glad to have gotten a job and will try to avoid being to nosy or pushy when it comes to work. They may think that ‘demanding’ a job description will be an added negative to their employer’s impression of them.

Searching For An Accounting Job
Accounting graduates, have broader choices and specific paths to follow with their careers. Accounting requires a lot of skills when it comes to business and that is why every company has an employee that is an accounting graduate. If you are an accounting graduate, you can apply in any kind of firm. Areas may include tax, audit, financial analysis and management accounting.

Job Search Tips
If you’re not sure what to do, here’s a list that might help.

Best Jobs
Employers have said that they are more likely to be 12 percent more graduates this year than last year. It is the first projected increase since the year 2000

EntryLevel Jobs 101 4 MustKnow Tips
For most people, aiming for a higher position at once is the key to job search success. However, for some people who know that in order to succeed in the job market, they have to, literally, start from scratch. This means that people who want to grow positively in the working world; they have to learn the basics and fundamental principles of working, how it is to love the work most people do, and how to establish a good working relationship with his or her colleagues.

How to Make a Yearend Job Search Work for You
You could be missing out on one of the most productive job search times of the year.

Employers are Hiring Good Candidates not Good Employees
Employer’s often use the wrong criteria to evaluate a job candidate. A survey showed the attributes of a good candidate aren’t the same as a top employee. Robert Cameron examines the problem and how to do a more effective job of pre employment testing.

Effective Multi Cultural International Business Meetings
Effective Multi-Cultural International Business MeetingsOf the many areas in international business where cultural differences manifest is in the corporate meeting room. International meetings are an ...

Contract Hire in Black and White for Business Users
Contract hire and vehicle leasing pros and cons for the business user.