Is Your Application Process Putting Off Potential Employees?
As an employer, you cannot possibly interview every single candidate interested in your job. An efficient application process comes to your help in picking up the right candidate. While resumes give volumes of information about the candidate, at the end of it, a resume is a self-promotion tool for candidates and most of the time, a resume will not give you the information you want for initial screening of candidates. Your application process comes to your rescue in such times. The application process enables employers in initial screening decisions based on uniform information gathered from all job applicants.
How to Hire a Truly Diverse Workforce
At a time when the world is your market, a diverse workforce can provide competition advantage to your business. A diverse workforce enables you to understand the markets globally and add flavor to your products or services that fit the needs of people from different cultures and regions. A company with workers from culturally diverse backgrounds is much stronger in terms of unique abilities of its workplace and an improved public and employee image.
How to Locate Good Candidates in a Tight Labor Market
The challenge of finding good people becomes even more challenging in a tight labor market. Bad hires can result in early quits or terminations – which means incurring costs for the same position again at a time when hiring costs are already high!
Recruiting Today: Go Mobile or Get Left Behind
Every employer understands that in recruiting, reaching the greatest number of relevant candidates and before other competitors matters most. Talent recruitment and management in today's world is difficult without accepting the use and functionality of mobile phones and smartphones as a platform for communicating with the target audience. And phones allow recruiters to reach potential candidates faster and in greater numbers than ever before. In fact most large-scale employers have started deploying mobile apps which both help to brand and to maintain relationships with potential candidates. The word is clear in 2012, either go mobile, or get left behind.
The Need to Spot Fake vs. Real Performers in an Interview
Spotting fake performers in interviews is a real troubling question with companies these days. Due to the tight economy and heavy restructuring in companies, it has been proved beyond dispute that poor performers or problem performers can really kill a company, and good performers carry a company on their shoulders. The problem recruiters are facing during the extended recession (or its last phases) is that candidates have become extremely interview-savvy.
Hiring Military Veterans for Your Company
Hiring military veterans for your company has obvious advantages. While the considerations of patriotic duty and tax benefits are of course there, the real gains are in highly disciplined personnel trained to command and follow orders efficiently and within time.
How to Avoid Bias While Conducting Job Interviews
Preparing to avoid bias during recruitment decisions and job interviews is essential, as all humans are biased in one way or another. Bias can come either from cultural conditioning or from hyperactive sensibilities. We need to ensure that our biases are not illegal or discriminatory, and that they do not affect our decisions to the detriment of company needs. Keeping that in mind, and actively working to remove bias in job interviews, not only helps you do your job better as a recruiter, but also helps to save your company from any litigation that might ensue.
What to Do When Your Candidate Shows Alternative Offers from Other Employers
This is a situation that is often met in real life, but rarely talked about: What should you do when your candidate shows up after a closed interview and places alternative offers from other employers on the table? This is something not to be taken lightly.
Virtual Interviewing: A Fad or the Future?
Virtual interviewing is here to stay. It is not a fad, nor the future, but it is the present, and for the past few years big companies like the Wal Mart have been using virtual interviewing to great advantage. Depending upon the job functions, virtual interviewing can be used at different levels of screening to make the candidate selection and recruitment process more cost-effective in terms of time, monetary expenses and other resources.
10 Simple Steps to Self-Motivation and More Sales
Every day of your life you are selling yourself. Nothing happens until you're successful at doing that.
Word of Mouth Recruiting and Referral Bonuses — Are They Effective Enough?
Word-of-mouth recruiting is simple enough. The recruiting process happens naturally when company employees narrate the merits of joining their company to their friends and acquaintances. Referrals a major source for filling up jobs, according to most of the recruitment agencies.
The Recruiting Roundup: Do You Need a Talent Pipeline?
It's no coincidence that the top companies like Google, Apple and McDonald's, are said to be the best places to work in. This is because these companies realize the quality of their product depends on the quality of people making it. An investment of time, money and effort for recruiting quality people is crucial for such organizations.
Importance of Reference Checks When Hiring
Finding the right candidate who fits your job opening is a big achievement; more often than not, we are in a hurry to get the candidate on board and close the deal – and we miss the crucial step of reference checks for the candidate.
Using the Social Media for Recruiting
There are millions of people on social media sites, which makes social media a common place to meet, share information and interact. With social media reaching almost all corners of the globe, it expands the scope for employers to dig into new and deserving talent, and recruit employees from anywhere in the world.
Maximizing the Results from Your Job Descriptions
For a business, right people in the right position can bring success, while right people in the wrong position can bring failure. As an employer, it is very important that your expectations from your employees are in complete alignment with their understanding of their job roles. This is where a good job description can help. Job descriptions offer both employer and employees the focus, clarity and expectations from a position. If your employees are clear of your expectations, it helps them work efficiently, accurately matching their need in the organization – ultimately resulting in smooth organizational growth.
Attracting Self-Motivated Employees
Self-motivated employees can prove to be a competitive advantage for your company. However, as an employer, you cannot create a self-motivated employee – you can only create an environment that fulfills your employees' needs, values and personal goals, to keep them committed towards the company's goals and objectives, with little supervision or direction.
Make Your Goals Stick
The amazing thing about the future is that if you wait, it will always come to you. No doubt you sat down and created your share of New Year's resolutions to conquer this year. The unfortunate truth, however, is that most people's resolutions fizzle and die before the first quarter is even over. It doesn't have to be this way - with a few key steps, you can be well on your way to goal-getting instead of just goal-setting and turn your resolutions into real solutions.
Market Failures And Business Cycles
The following is the most comprehensive ever explanation to the most mysterious phenomenon of Capitalism – the Business Cycles. Why is it that we are often besieged by such painful downsides of economic activity such as Great Depression or the nerve wracking periods such as Stagflations? Why can’t we all be always happy with hundred percent employment all the time, with each and every one of us employed?
Practical Management of Workplace Stress Made Easy Part-1
Trying to work out of workplace stress in a methodical manner, by itself, creates a huge stress on the management. Much of that stress is generated by an overload of conflicting, confusing, academic, and generalizing information and it can take years for anyone to make any real sense out of that mass of knowledge. So, we have decided to dump the learned approach and go for a short practical one – creating a blueprint for stress management that just touches on matters of academic importance and deals briefly with those of real importance. The rest is for you to assimilate, conceptualize and implement. At least, our series of articles on workplace stress management is guaranteed to cause less stress than most.
Solving Time Management Problems
Managing personal workload and other individuals and teams effectively is not possible when the role and responsibilities of the manager are uncertain. The solution is to arrange for these to be discussed, clarified and agreed, and communicated to other managers and to operational employees.