Blogs / 2011 / June

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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 / 2011 / June

Top 10 HR Mistakes to be avoided We all make mistakes. However, in business, mistakes that involve your people can severely drain your bottom line, your piece of mind and possibly your entire business. We will start out this month by reviewing the... More...

Talent management and performance management are two relatively new disciplines HR technology firms are staking out for automation. Depending upon your definition talent management encompasses hiring, on-boarding, developing, managing, motivating an... More...

Monster in collaboration with Military.com announced the launch of a new career site to better serve active duty personnel, reservists, guard members, defense workers, retirees, veterans, family members and those considering military careers. The... More...

It’s official… the U.S nonfarm payrolls report for May 2011 confirms that the unemployment rate remains barely unchanged at 9.1%. With only 54, 000 jobs added this marks the weakest job growth in the last eight months. This news led to the 14% ... More...

Monster announced the launch of its newest website Return2Home on Thursday. The site’s goal to connect Non-Resident Indians, or NRIs, with Indian-based firms looking to hire outside talent from abroad was fueled by the increasing amount of NRIs seek... More...

Almost every conversation involves 4 layers: Facts, Interpretations, Reactions and Ends. At Leadership IQ, we call this the FIRE model. Each of these four elements of conversation feeds into the next. The process starts with the Facts, things that... More...

By Gwen Kesten, Ph.D., Solutions EAP Coordinator-Middlesex Hospital When research was conducted comparing ‘very happy people’ with those who were less happy, one external variable distinguished the two groups from each other. This key differe... More...

Mark Gorkin, speaker and author of Practice Safe Stress: Healing and Laughing in the Face of Stress, Burnout and Depression; www.stressdoc.com and Jeff Peden, speaker and author of Take Your Business to the Max: The Ultimate Strategy for Profits ... More...

By: Lisa Manyon No matter what business you are in, you also have a second job…you are a marketer. That means you are responsible for letting others know about how you can help them. One of the best ways to get those opportunities to convert prosp... More...

The number two myth about Generation Y is that they won't do the grunt work. They'll do the grunt work. I promise you they will do the grunt work. They'll do the grunt work very well, very fast, all day long. They're so eager to prove themselve... More...

By Dianna Booher Can passive voice be all bad? Of course not. Continual use of active-voice verbs can be monotonous and at times pompous. Passive-voice sentences can be useful. Consider using them for reasons such as these: To Add Variet... More...

These days, employees nationwide often gather around water-coolers and coffee-makers to vent about high fuel prices. When one Midwest publishing executive heard an employee singing the gas-pump blues, he decided to do something about it. "I heard ... More...

What is The Combined Product Program? The Combined Product Program is an innovative way to look at group health insurance through a consumer driven platform and High Deductible Plan designs. The Combined Product Program consists of: — A... More...

Kansas City, Kan.— Medical insurance costs are continuing to rise for services industry employers across the country. The 2011 Compensation Data Services survey results show service organizations reported an average premium increase of 11.2 percent... More...

I am fascinated by identity economics, has anyone read the book? The proposition is, and I believe it to be true that a significant number of the purchases and decisions we make are motivated by our perception of our identity. When you thi... More...

BlueVolt (www.BlueVolt.com), the leading provider of online Learning Management Systems (LMS) for the distribution, manufacturing, construction and service industries has partnered with wholesaler Matco-Norca to launch the Matco-Norca University onli... More...

Whether you work at home, in a cubicle or in a private office your work space plays a big part in your productivity levels. It is easy to allow ourselves to become unorganized or to neglect the aesthetics of our office space. Simply put, it i... More...

Typically when you think of the advice most suitable for individuals in their twenties it is words of caution. Be careful with your money, don’t get yourself into too much debt, you are not invincible, sky diving may not be the best idea etc. So it... More...

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Recognize This! – Poor management is often at the heart of the reason for RIFs, not a poor economy. How many of you are in organizations that conducted some kind of reduction in force (RIF), layoff, furlough – call it what you will – during ... More...

Enterprise 2.0 conference…. Reporting from the floor of the Enterprise 2.0 conference in Boston. Well you think the HR space has it fragmentation and TLA (Three letter acronyms) so does social media players. On the floor everyone is saying it’s t... More...

Fall protection standards are tightening for homebuilders nationwide, and Minnesota is enforcing greater compliance before the national deadline. According to a top safety publishing executive, the key to meeting these tight compliance deadlines li... More...

Some time ago, I mentioned to you all about my daughter who happens to study philosophy and literature in college. Since college is over for the summer, this series is also coming to an end. We’ve discussed multiple different ways her world of arts ... More...

Top performers like having good managers. According to a recent survey by the Corporate Executive Board, a little under half of the 983 finance workers surveyed said that compensation is important to them even more than work/life balance. When it ... More...

The trial for the flamboyant British fashion designer, John Galliano, who was fired for anti-Semitic slurs he hurled at patrons in a Paris cafe, is set to begin. He will be charged for "public insults based on origin, religious affiliation, race or e... More...

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HR - Common Mistakes

How Much Management is Enough?

Military.com and Monster Become Allies

Monster Stocks Feel the Pressure

EXTRA, EXTRA! Monster.com launches Return2Home Website

Bad Listening Can Hurt Your Career

Becoming Happier Part IV – Happiness in Relationships

Top Ten Mind Barriers to Maximizing Business Performance – Part II

Nine Ways to Network More Effectively

"The #2 Myth about Generation Y"

Use Passive Voice Only for a Good Reason

Publisher Encourages Business Community to Make Fuel Bonus a Job Perk

What is The Combined Product Program?

Medical Insurance Costs on the Rise for the Service Industry

Identity Economics

BlueVolt and Matco-Norca launch online training program

Make Your Office Work For You

Risk Averse Youth?

Testing Twitter and Facebook

Eliminating RIFs through Proper Performance Management

Enterprise 2.0 conference….

OSHA directive: Homebuilders can no longer fall short in safety knowledge

Boomer Shakespeare Retires as HR Exec

How to Retain Your Top Performers

Trial for Galliano Begins