We’ve Come a Long Way, Baby? It seems hard to believe, but according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, women now make up 51.6% of the employees in “management, professional, and related occupations” in the USA. That’s a magnitude of change from how things were just thirty years ago! Pursuing greater inclusivity helps organizations hire and […]
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Social Media Profiling The rise of social media has created new opportunities and challenges in the workplace, affecting each and every department in different ways. The recruiting and HR departments are no exception, with businesses of all sizes increasingly looking to access candidates’ social media profiles when shortlisting. However, with great power comes great responsibility […]
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Avoid these 9 Phone Interview Blunders A phone interview is usually the first step in the hiring dance. We’ve done the interview ‘waltz’ with a lot of prospective food and beverage candidates through the years! Some have left us with metaphorical foot blisters while others have swept us off our feet. To assist food and […]
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Is It Really Pay-For-Performance? Today, nearly every organization claims to have a pay-for-performance program. But when companies give merit increases to over 95 percent of their employees (in other words, to all employees except those who are about to be fired) are they actually paying their employees based on job performance? Are those raises really […]
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Considering the number of articles, books, and lectures that have emerged in recent years about how building positive workplace cultures and a better employee experience can have a positive impact on business goals, one might expect organizational trust to be on the rise. But a recent study by EY found that “less than half of […]
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Candidate Ghosting Prevention Are potential employees continuing to disappear while in the middle of your recruiting process? You’re not alone. So what can you do to keep from getting ‘ghosted’ by job candidates? Candidate Ghosting Reasons and Remedies According to Strategic Human Resources, Inc., candidates are more prone to drop out of the talent […]
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Understanding Equal Pay & the Impact You Can Have Are you able to ask candidates for their salary history in your state or city? If so, you may not be for long. If you are hiring employees in California, Connecticut (effective Jan 1, 2019), Delaware, Hawaii (effective Jan 1, 2019), Massachusetts, New Jersey, New […]
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With so much focus lately on Millenials, what can employers do to support another group of employees, the Sandwich Generation? Employees in the Sandwich Generation, who are caring not only for their children but also for their own aging parents, often struggle to balance all of this responsibility. According to the Northeast Business Group on […]
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Leadership: Is There Such A Thing As Born Leaders? Or, Is Leadership Learned? While our lives and careers can often find themselves in predictable patterns–go to school, get a job, work hard, rise to the top–there’s one little secret that most leaders never like to talk about. It’s a reality that can make us feel […]
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The bad hire. You’re not alone if you’ve ever regretted hiring a candidate after the fact. The new hire is flailing, your hiring manager is frustrated, HR is trying to ensure they stay long enough to not be a total loss, and the CFO is wondering if he can take the recruitment costs and lost […]
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