by Caroline | Nov 21, 2012 | Assessments, Hiring, HRCompliance, People Evaluation, Recruiting, Training
It’s almost the New Year and time to stop and take stock. For businesses that means look at your strategic plan, including your human resources management. Sadly, many businesses haven’t created a strategic plan to look at. They’re so busy meeting deadlines, finding...
by Caroline | Nov 14, 2012 | Assessments, People Evaluation, Recruiting, Telecommuting, company culture, management
Ho! Ho! Ho! Tis the season for hiring temporary employees. There’s a temptation, around this time of year, to chuck all the time-consuming hiring process and take shortcuts. I mean, you’re only going to have these people around for a short time, right? Oh, but what a...
by Caroline | Nov 7, 2012 | Assessments, People Evaluation, Recruiting, Telecommuting, company culture, management
Assessments are great. The right assessment can work like an elaborate maze or a sting operation. With the right assessment, you can weed out all the extraneous information about a candidate and find the person who is going to hit a home run with your company. Take...
by Caroline | Oct 31, 2012 | Compensation and Benefits, Hiring, Non profit HR, People Evaluation, Recruiting, Training
The problem with trying to change the world is that you really want to put every dollar toward fighting cancer, feeding the poor, tending to the dying or rescuing animals–not toward air conditioning, insurance or HR. But it can’t be avoided. Nonprofits have all...
by Caroline | Oct 24, 2012 | Assessments, Hiring, People Evaluation, Recruiting
It’s one of the great hiring conundrums: Employers want to hire people who are experienced in 90-to-100 percent of a given job. They want to go home and sleep at night knowing the job is covered. The problem is, most candidates really want a job that’s only 50-to-75...
by Caroline | Oct 17, 2012 | Assessments, Hiring, People Evaluation, Recruiting
No matter what you’re hiring for, be it an executive or a software developer, there are five characteristics that mark a certain kind of person. A particular sort of human being who is just more likely to be a better team member, help push the company where it’s...
