by Caroline | Dec 4, 2013 | Company Culture, Hiring, HRCompliance, Management, Non profit HR, Recruiting
So, people don’t generally say it to my face, but I know how a lot of people feel about HR. Like we’re all coming in with our little clipboards, enforcing rules no one ever heard of, creating work for ourselves by having complex recruiting rituals, insisting on...
by Caroline | Oct 9, 2013 | Assessments, Company Culture, Compensation and Benefits, Hiring, Management, People Evaluation, Recruiting, Telecommuting, company culture, management
In honor of Austin Startup Week, we wanted to acknowledge that most entrepreneurs know certain common truths about startup life: They’ll have to work 40 hours a day, 12 days a week, for example. But when it comes to human resources, there’s A LOT startups don’t know....
by Caroline | Aug 28, 2013 | Hiring, HRCompliance, Labor Law, People Evaluation, Recruiting
Business is great with US customers and now you are ready to hire a sales team in EMEA or APAC and expand internationally? Can’t find the talent you need to get your product off the ground and need to hire developers outside of the US? Clients in Australia love you,...
by Caroline | Aug 21, 2013 | Company Culture, People Evaluation, Recruiting, teamwork, Training
Drama, drama, drama! The woman who spends half the day polling officemates whether her boyfriend loves her. The man who has a conniption every time a client does something funky. The employees who come in complaining about each other every day, like five-year-olds on...
by Caroline | Jun 12, 2013 | Compensation and Benefits, Management, Non profit HR, Recruiting, rewards
These days, it’s considered very cool to be a “transparent” organization that shares with employees its earnings, costs, goals…. But just how transparent do you want to be? A lot of our clients wrestle with the idea of making salaries transparent:...
by Caroline | May 29, 2013 | Company Culture, Hiring, Non profit HR, People Evaluation, Recruiting, Training
So here’s a crazy paradigm that happens at a lot of organizations: You all wear jeans and loose t-shirts with funny slogans. You all watch Game of Thrones, or maybe it’s Downton Abbey. You’ve all got the COEXIST bumper sticker and you believe fervently in...
