Blogs / 2008 / December

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	Onboarding Best Practices

	Good Guy = Bad Manager :: Bad Guy = Good Manager. Is it a Myth?

	Five Interview Tips for Winning Your First $100K+ Job

	Base Pay Increases Remain Steady in 2007, Mercer Survey Finds

	Online Overload: The Perfect Candidates Are Out There - If You Can Find Them

	Cartus Global Survey Shows Trend to Shorter-Term International Relocation Assignments

	New Survey Indicates Majority Plan to Postpone Retirement

	What do You Mean My Company’s A Stepping Stone?

	Rewards, Vacation and Perks Are Passé; Canadians Care Most About Cash

	Do’s and Don’ts of Offshoring

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Blogs / 2008 / December

CalBizCentral, the compliance division of the California Chamber of Commerce, announced today the availability of the updated 2009 California and Federal Employment Poster that includes the new required federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) pos... More...

Effective January 2009, the State of New York has amended their state law regarding protecting personally identifiable information (PII). On July 9, 2009, Governor David Patterson signed Bill No. A11752 / S8376A regulating employers’ internal use of ... More...

In my career, I have had the opportunity to work for two employee-owned companies, Andersen Windows in Bayport, Minnesota, and Publix Super Markets in Lakeland, Florida. Being employed by a company in which you own a stake makes a huge differenc... More...

Nearly 80% of employers currently use consumer reports in which to base hiring decisions and many are not aware of their responsibilities under the Fair and Accurate Transactions Act (FACT Act) “Red Flag Rules,” which amends the federal F... More...

Building effective teams starts at the top of any organization. Every organization, large and small has a culture that can be moved and changed, albeit often very slowly. Culture is the framework for effective teamwork. Organizations are obviously ma... More...

1. We have all hired employees who were poor to, at best, average performers 2. All businesses should strive to hire top performers...not just "bodies". 3. There are real costs associated with hiring marginal performers, not the least of whic... More...

1. Hiring is the key to any organization's success (failure). 2. Your ability to attract and retain top performers has major implications for customer satisfaction, revenues and profits. 3. Obviously at times it is difficult to attract and retain... More...

Laying off an employee is one of the most difficult tasks a manager can face. At that time, the departing employee needs as much information as possible about resources available to help him or her cope and make the transition to a new job. Defin... More...

The New Talent Management … oh, let’s call it …. Human Capital Management … 10 years ago, when IHRM was the go-to conference to go to for HR technology people, every second booth (of the 300+ booths) were selling an HRMS product. Most of them were ... More...

It was early May of this year and a Starbucks supervisor came to me asking if we could talk. She seemed a bit distraught and nervous. Since she'd already invited herself to sit down, we merely commenced our conversation with her nervously trying to f... More...

This has been the hardest article for me to contribute as I have hoped that it will not be relevant. Unfortunately, with the current global economic slowdown, I feel that it could be one of my most important piece of writing. It has been reported ... More...

Social Networking Sites (SNS) like Facebook and MySpace have taken the world by storm. Much of the business communication within the workplace can be transmitted cost-effectively through these platforms because many people already have a SNS account... More...

December 11, 2008 (Redding, CA) – Past-Employ.com, a leading employment and income verifications provider, acquired Employer’s Advantage, Inc. offering unemployment insurance claims management services to meet the demands of the current e... More...

I am sure most of you reading this article have been to different interview and have seen a considerable overlap in the questions you were asked by the interviewers. I have certainly experienced this. I gathered that there are websites and document... More...

HelloNow more than ever, we need the right people in the right jobs. You may have attended one of Greg Smith's workshops and/or receive his Navigator Newsletter. I am Seth Shepherd, and I work with Greg, the founder and President of Chart Your C... More...

Due to the current economic crisis, it’s no secret that businesses are strapping on their seatbelts quite tightly before riding into 2009. All across the board, companies are losing valuable assets and anyone in human resources will tell you the most... More...

If your organization does not have a performance management process in place, economic conditions make it even more critical that you implement one. If you have a process in place that is not functioning well, now is the time to improve upon it.... More...

I have been an HR professional for more years than I care to say - and telephone use in the office for personal reasons has always been a problem of contention for HR. However, when an employee is using company property, it is easy to deve... More...

How much money you make does not always dictate how successful you are in life. Sometimes you just have to enjoy what you do!!! More...

Three documents that are critical to the goal setting process include the employee’s job description, a written copy of the company vision or business objectives and a written copy of appropriate departmental objectives. Another helpful doc... More...

We were chosen out of close to ¼ million projects and 1.8 million registered users to be Project of the month in December 2008. SourceForge.net has a count of 25 to 30 million unique visitors per month and every month a project is chos... More...

A manager's role has changed dramatically over the past 10 to 15 years. This change stems from the realization that old management techniques and styles are no longer effective given the changes taking place in peoples' attitudes about work. Today's ... More...

If, like me, you actually enjoy reading the 100+ business books that get published every year then you are probably well aware of what I like to call "the silver bullet syndrome". In any given business book, the author generally describes a problem, ... More...

CEOs these days must feel as if they are piloting a plane upside down and backwards through the perfect storm, where all things that can go wrong, do. Following the storm, comes a brief period of misleading calm before the chaos begins again. Ever... More...

Over the years, Korea 's rigid labor laws have pushed both local and foreign companies to rely heavily upon non-regular workers. There are two main types of non-regular workers in Korea : fixed-term employees, who are generally hired for 6 months to... More...

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CalBizCentral Helps Businesses Comply with New Benefits for Military Families

New York Strengthens Protection for Employees' Identifying Information

Employee Owned Business the New Future for US Business?

Pre-employ.com Offers Free Archived Webinar on FACTA Red Flag Rules….

Building Effective Teams Part 2

THE COST OF TURNOVER AND HIRING MARGINAL PERFORMERS

Hiring and Retaining Good Employees

When You Have to Lay Off an Employee

The future of Talent Management and Print Advertising

Don't Do This at Your Day Job

Facing A Retrenchment

Workplace Communication

Past-Employ.com Offers Free Archived Webinar on Unemployment Insurance Claims Management

Most Common Interview Questions

Hire, Develop and Promote the Right People

What's your story? Assessing the impact of the economic crisis to prepare for 2009

A New PM Process? Now?

Cell phones in the Workplace

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Goal Setting 101

OrangeHRM is Project of the Month on Sourceforge

An Introduction To Building Effective Teams

Fix It And Forget It? Nope, Doesn't Work For IT

How to fly safely through turbulence

Employment of Non-Regular vs. Regular Workers in Korea