Paving the Road to Maximizing Employee Retention and Development
20|20 Assessment™ and its partner, Dry Creek Rancheria recognize the value of investing in people even during an economic downturn. This respect for developing an employee’s potential will lead to outstanding outcomes such as improved performance due to greater awareness of one’s strengths and opportunities. (Read more at Hcareers)
Making HR a Strategy and Profit Center in 2009
Maximize HR and training programs as these best practices enhance short-term productivity and reinforce a culture of thinking and working smarter and more strategically. (Read more at Hcareers)
No, Recruiting Is Not Dead
I'm a little surprised at the lack of convo about recruiting right now. While I've spent the majority of my career as a generalist, I've always realized that the recruiting function can make or break me. Most of my career has been directed toward fixing HR departments. And, in my experience, I've found there is a correlation between broken HR departments and broken recruiting functions. (Read more at Fast Company)
Are You Targeting the Best, or the Rest?
The economy will recover. Yet most companies will still be using slight modifications of the hiring processes that didn't work too well pre-2008. The current environment provides a rare opportunity for those who want to overhaul their sourcing, interviewing and recruiting processes and start with a fresh new slate. Part of this is implementing Web 2.0 tools. Another part is the idea that requisition-based sourcing is passé. Underlying all this is the more important idea that top candidates don't look for work the same way as average candidates, nor do they use the same criteria to select one job over another. If true, the driver to all of your hiring changes should be to redesign your hiring process based on how the best people look and decide, not some dictate from a lawyer, HR leader or the opinion of a hiring manager. (Read more at Recruiting Trends)
How to Interview and Hire the Right Employee
I spent more than 20 years interviewing and hiring people for just about every discipline and management level you can think of. These days, with so many people out of work, you’ve got a lot to talent to choose from. So do it right and you won’t get screwed. (Read more at BNET)
What Are Your Best Interview Questions?
One of my startup's board members, Albert Wenger, said: "As long as there are one or more major positions or functions in a company that are not filled with or run by great people, it will be a drag on the effectiveness of everybody else." (Read more at MediaPost)
How to Use Youtube to Recruit Talent
Too few companies realize how powerful sites like YouTube can be for marketing themselves. We’ve written about companies like Sodexho using it before. But we cant stress enough the fact that YouTube is a tremendous opportunity for employers if they use it correctly. It represents social media recruiting at its best. (Read more at Fast Company)
Small Companies Have Hiring Advantages
Big businesses woo job candidates by offering a bevy of benefits, brand-name recognition and maybe even a Starbucks in the lobby. How can small businesses compete for top talent? (Read more at Snow Magazine)
How Employee Affinity Groups Can Help You Recruit and Retain a Diverse Workforce
When employee affinity groups are run well, they can help companies recruit and retain top diverse talent. But these groups can also backfire if managed ineffectively. In conjunction with Black History Month, Carmen Van Kerckhove, president of workplace diversity education firm New Demographic (www.newdemographic.com), shares 4 key strategies every company should know to maximize the diversity benefits of employee affinity groups. (Read more at PR Web)
TUI to Expand Travel Apprenticeships Program
TUI UK has revealed plans to expand its travel apprenticeships programme into new areas of the business as Apprenticeship Week draws to a close. The travel giant has hired 3,500 apprentices in the last five years and they now make up 30% of all its travel agency staff and tour reps. The apprentices are aged 16 to 18 and combine on-the-job training with organised learning. (Read more at Travel Weekly)
Hospitality UK: Interest Rate Cut Could Boost Jobs
Last week's cut in interest rates could lead to more hotel openings in the UK, according to hospitality recruiters. Mark Norris, chief executive at Profile, told Recruiter: “A decrease in interest rates combined with the weakness of the pound should provide an ideal environment for companies to invest in new facilities, build or buy hotels and expand their interests. (Read more at Recruiter)
Corporate Recruiters Gather to Distinguish "Best" From "Good" in a Growing Population of Qualified Candidates
In synch with the current hiring economy, company strategies that affect corporate recruiting and overall talent management continue to develop. According to recruiting industry research firm Kennedy Information, it is increasingly critical for corporate and non-profit recruiters to expand their knowledge base and arm themselves with the appropriate tactics and new technologies needed to emerge from these tumultuous labor markets with an improved workforce. (Read more at Marketwire)