How to Recruit Part 1/3: Getting Ready
When getting ready to recruit, the likelihood of success will improve by investing time to get organized and really understand what you need.
Why Anonymous Employee Feedback Can Be Harmful
In today’s workplaces, employers are faced with multiple issues. Some of these include high turnover rates, poor relationships and mistrust of supervisors. Even under positive circumstances, supervisors may seek to better the workplace by reaching out to the very people who work there. As part of this, anonymous feedback is offered, or occasionally required, from […]
Six Ways Pro Sports Recruiting Mirrors That of the Business World
Identifying, attracting and retaining talent is a key factor in the success of any company. Perhaps nowhere is this more true than in professional sports. Just as in other businesses, there are specialized professionals hard at work scouting and recruiting the best possible individuals to round out a pro team’s roster. Unlike many of us […]
Recruiting Firms vs Internal HR: Measuring Benefits and Cost
Having the right people in place is perhaps the most important aspect of maintaining a well-run and successful organization. With this in mind, identifying and recruiting top talent is a component of company management that must be given top priority. Some companies choose to utilize an agency to handle recruitment, while others opt to do […]
Politics in the Workplace: Employer Policies and Employee Protocol
Political disagreements are nothing new. For as long as we’ve had a political process, we’ve been discussing it passionately amongst ourselves on a regular basis. If you feel, however, that debate is more prominent, as well as more pointed, than usual in recent years, you’re not alone. On TV, online and on the street political […]
Surviving Recession: Business and HR Strategies
Recently we detailed some of the factors that are leading many economists to believe that a recession may be just around the corner.1 Of course we don’t know exactly when the next economic downturn will strike, but we do know that it is a matter of when, not a matter of if. With this in […]
Will 2020 See a Recession? A Look at the Factors Causing Economic Uncertainty
At the risk of delving into cliché, all good things must come to an end. And so it will eventually be with the lengthy period of economic growth that has been experienced over the past decade plus. One thing is for certain, at some point recession WILL hit. Many things are less knowable, among them […]
Degree or No Degree?
As with challenges to many of our trusted institutions in recent years, academia and its degree granting authorities have seen increasing challenges to their value. The criticisms towards academia are numerous, leaving students to soberly assess their degree and educational goals. What’s a degree worth? What can you do with it? How much time and […]
TGIM: What Employers and Employees Can Do to Mend the Monday Blues
There are lots of great songs about Saturdays. Mondays? Not so much. The Boomtown Rats don’t like them, the Mamas and the Papas don’t trust them and the Bangles simply describe them as “manic”. Mondays are about as popular as traffic jams or runny noses. It makes sense; for many of us it’s the first […]
What to do when your employee comes out as transgender
Vancouver Pride Festival is less than one month away. As a week of celebration, it offers locals the opportunity to celebrate diversity. It also gives workplaces another opportunity to rethink inclusion for trans employees fighting a stigma that involves gender identity and sexuality. It’s been reported that LGBTQ+ adults are more than twice as likely […]