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HR Insights From The G’Day USA Houston Event
The Australian American Chamber of Commerce put on a great event this past week in Houston, TX under the G’Day USA initiative. This event was attended by over 300 people from USA and Australia with some highly respected speakers from various corporations and entities from both countries. The main presentations and keynote speeches were around [...]
Read MoreWhat Is Talent Management?
Understanding Talent Management As It Relates To Your Business The phrase means different things to different people: Wikipedia describes talent management as the anticipation of required human capital the organization needs at the time then setting a plan to meet those needs. The process of attracting and retaining profitable employees, as it is increasingly more [...]
Read MoreHow To Get The Gold Medal In Human Resources
I watched the coverage of the Olympics over the weekend and caught a segment on Olga Korbut, the former Soviet Union gymnast who captured the world’s attention at the 1972 Munich Olympics. I knew she had won the gold medal, but I didn’t appreciate that she was a game changer – for gymnastics and for [...]
Read MoreWanted: Top-tier Candidate Looking For Long-Term Relationship With Recruiter
Here’s a piece of advice that can steer strong candidates from frustration down the road: find a recruiter who wants to have a long-term relationship with you. When you do, just as with any other kind of a relationship, you’ll increase the likelihood of having your needs met. If that sounds too much like your [...]
Read MoreWhat Employers Should Expect From Recruiters After The Hire
The search is over. You’ve got the perfect candidate in the door and within days she’s making real progress on your top priority project. Don’t celebrate too quickly, though. Unfortunately, many promising new hires leave their jobs in the first three months. It’s enough to perplex even the most diligent hiring managers. New hires leave [...]
Read MoreHow Not to Find a Job Using the Internet
If you’re unemployed and looking for a job or employed but want a better job, here’s what you should absolutely not do: spend inordinate amounts of energy fine-tuning your resume, posting it to online job and resume banks, and waiting for email inquiries to fill your inbox. Sure, people do that. And some would make [...]
Read MoreHow to Cut Your Recruiting Time in Half
Here are two common scenarios. Do you recognize either? Scenario #1: The HR generalist creates a job description, the hiring manager signs off on it and the job description is posted on a handful of high-traffic job websites. Hundreds of individuals send in resumes, but only a handful appear to be remotely qualified. The recruiter [...]
Read MoreHow to Avoid the Cost of a Bad Hire
A bad hire. Just the thought of it can make a hiring manager take a deep breath. More troubling than ruining a manager’s solid track record, bad hires cost companies money – sometimes a great deal. But how much? Here are a few obvious costs: The cost of your recruiting team, whether that’s an internal [...]
Read MoreHow to Reduce Recruiting Time
Once you make the decision to hire someone, every day seems to pass by at a snail’s pace. To avoid a lengthy recruiting cycle, here are several things you can do to get the ideal candidate on the job sooner rather than later. Plan Ahead Every now and then, your personnel or business requirements change [...]
Read MoreQualifying Candidates: Why “Good On Paper” Isn’t Good Enough
Resumes. Every job seeker sweats over them. Every HR generalist has a drawer full of them. Every hiring manager relies on them. Thousands of businesses exist to create, tweak, shorten, expand, craft, tailor, perfect them. But does anyone really like them? What value do they actually bring to hiring managers and job seekers? Time to [...]
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