Blogs / 2010 / April

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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 / 2010 / April

Are high quality candidates viewing your jobs only to leave in the middle of the application process? You might not think so but the numbers may surprise you. Nearly 50% of all candidates who start to fill out a job application online fail to compl... More...

Originally Posted on the SmashFly Recruitment Marketing Blog . With the increased popularity of social networks such as Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook, people are starting to realize the power of networks in their social and professional lives.... More...

Stevens Worldwide Van Lines offers data about the moving and storage industry, as provided by the industry trade association, the American Moving & Storage Association. The moving and storage industry: • Consists of 8,100 companies operat... More...

Last weekend was perfect weather to clean up our perennial garden. After a few days of much needed heavy rains, the sun was shining again. The garden was springing back to life with plenty of green shoots (sadly, the deer and rabbits did chew off a f... More...

A recent Minnesota District Court sent to trial a case involving Meslu Tewle, a native of Eritrea, who complained to her HR department about being passed over for a promotion, suggesting that it might have been because of her national origin. The ver... More...

Using basketball terminology, we can now claim that in a discrimination suit it is almost a slam dunk that a retaliation claim will be made. In fiscal 2009, more than 33,500 claims of retaliation were made, tripling the amount of claims since 1992. R... More...

The 8th Circuit recently had a case involving a person who was the exclusive marketing representative of a northern Iowa brokerage company representing liquor and wine companies. Since Iowa is a control state, the suppliers provide liquor to the stat... More...

If you will recall, in 2008 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that employment practices that have a disparate impact on older workers are discriminatory unless the practice is “justified by reasonable factor other than age.” The EEOC has now issued propos... More...

On March 18, 2010, President Obama signed the Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment Act. If you hire a person who has been unemployed for 60 days (or worked less than 40 hours during that period) after February 2, 2010 and before January 1, 2011, y... More...

In an earlier posting, we revealed information about the top reasons for employee turnover in 2009 . Now we’ll look at another key finding from our 2009 Contact Center Recruiting and Compensation Survey : the average cost and rate of attriti... More...

Part I of this two-part essay focused on my format for illustrating the concept of “Letting Go” during a 20-minute after dinner keynote for the career transition/support group, Forty Plus. [Email stressdoc@aol.com<mailto:stressdoc@aol.com> ... More...

By Sharon Drew Morgen Publisher: Morgen Publishing Price: $18.99/trade paperback ISBN: 978-0-9643553-9-2 “If you want to learn how decisions get made, how change happens, and how buyer’s buy – you must read this book.” --Alen Majer, author ... More...

Once you’ve aligned your strategic recognition program to reflect your changed company objectives to help communicate new strategies, approaches or even organizational structure, how do you know your efforts are succeeding? Disturbing results fr... More...

"From my eleventh year I have been launched upon a single enterprise which is my main business! My life has been permeated and held together by one idea and one goal: namely, to penetrate into the secret of the personality. Everything can be explaine... More...

I recently finished the Positive Discipline for Parents course by Jane Nelsen. I would recommend this program to any parent. I’ve already raised two sons who are great young men at 29 and 31. Now I’m blessed with an eight year-old and I remain motiva... More...

So which boss are you going to be? You should be the boss who says, "Great news, I'm the boss! I consider that a sacred responsibility. I'm going to make sure that everything goes well around here. I'm going to help you get a bunch of work done v... More...

RECENT DISCOVERIES 1. MOTIVATING PEOPLE BEYOND MONEY Thank you to Cherri Holland a New Zealand colleague who sent me a copy of a recent article by McKinsey and Company on motivating people. A study of 1047 managers found that noncash incentiv... More...

Your list of "Things not to do from my work computer" should already include at least these items: 1. Look at porn. 2. Send off-color jokes to co-workers and friends 3. Download/install executable files 4. Look for another job A re... More...

Part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or the “Health Care Reform Act” as I have been referring to it, includes the idea of "grandfathering" certain plans. Grandfathering applies to allow certain plans to ... More...

DING-DONG, SOMEONE’S PUSHING MY BUTTONS!! By Abby Anderson, MS, LPC, CEAP Solutions EAP Program Coordinator The pressures we experience today are tremendous. Global issues such as the economy, war and natural disasters are prominently featured... More...

Todays economy is starting to breathe new life in to HR personnel. The new HR is now more interactive with employees and are contributing more to managers and the organizational strategy. Five to ten years ago saw the decline in HR as a v... More...

I often hear sales, marketing, and change management folks talking about ‘understanding the customer.’ But what, exactly, does that mean? On the face of it, it’s a no-brainer. Of course it’s vital to ‘understand the customer.’ But it’s not so simp... More...

Last week a reader asked for advice on the best way to craft a vision and mission statement for their organization. Beware! This could be a big trap. I often poll my speaking or workshop audiences and ask for a show of hands on how many participants’... More...

Human resources management is a ocean we can know this ocean through this web site. More...

"Do You Know the Keys to Employee Engagement?" People Whispering Tip: Spring has come to Atlanta and there seems to be no more beautiful place on earth with cherry blossom and Bradford pear trees exploding into color and... More...

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How to Increase the size of your Talent Network [Webinar]

Building Your Talent Network: Who Should Be Part of It?

Recent Data About the Moving and Storage Industry from the American Moving & Storage Association

Spring Clean-Up: Does Your Team Keep an Active To-Stop List?

TIMING OF COMPLAINT IMPORTANT

RETALIATION CLAIMS ARE #1

SALES PERSON RULED INDEPENDENT CONTRACTOR

EEOC PROPOSED RULES RELATING TO AGE DISCRIMINATION

INCENTIVES TO HIRE UNEMPLOYED

What Was the Average Cost and Rate of Contact Center Attrition in 2009?

Letting Go and Transforming Your Intimate FOE: Fear of Exposure: Part II

DIRTY LITTLE SECRETS - Why Buyers Can’t Buy and Sellers Can’t Sell, And What You Can Do About It!

How Do You Know Your Recognition Program Is Succeeding?

Just a Job or Part of Our Deeper Purpose?

April 2010 Compliance and Culture Newsletter

"Be the Boss Who Delivers Good News"

SMARTER BETTER BUSINESS April 2010

One More Thing You Shouldn't Do from Your Work Computer...

Health Care Reform Part 7: And A Word About Grandfathered Plans

"Someone's Pushing My Buttons!" Part I

New HR

We Can't Understand Customers

Beware the Vision and Mission Statement Trap of Wordsmithing Hell

HR Related Things

DO YOU KNOW THE KEYS TO EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT?