Recruitment and Retention
You Can Prevent These 5 Types of Employee Turnover
Not all employee turnover is within your control. Chronic illness, family moves, and entrepreneurial endeavors are a few reasons you can’t stop. But some turnover is entirely foreseeable and totally preventable. In a job market where workers are quitting their jobs in record numbers, it’s critical to keep your top performers from jumping ship.
Recruiters, Here’s How to Rock That Job Fair
When you’re a recruiter, you can’t show up for a job fair unprepared. It would be like attending the interview panel in your underwear, only worse, because you’re about to see a whole bunch of potential candidates in a very short time. You want to make an impression that catches the best qualified ones. So […]
Manners Matter With Job Candidates
Recruitment is not a statistically winning process. For every one candidate who gets a job offer, hiring managers and HR professionals must let down one hundred candidates who aren’t moving forward. No, it’s never fun to deliver rejection—that’s why ghosting has become so popular in today’s culture, and why it’s so tempting to let no-goes […]
Increase employee retention with these stay interview questions
Does it help to ask employees why they’re leaving when they’ve already given notice? You won’t stop them from going. Yet most companies hold exit interviews to get some semi-honest feedback on workplace conditions and employee satisfaction, and to maybe-perhaps-possibly fix some wrong stuff after the fact. You might have prevented these employees from leaving […]
How to Increase Employee Retention Rates
Turnover is real, and it’s more common than ever. Today’s average employee has been at their job just over four years, so it’s safe to say that your grandfather’s day, when an employee would park at one company until retirement, is gone. And it’s safe to say your company can expect some turnover.
How Human Resources Can Attract Top Performers
Let’s start with the bottom line: High performers are costly to nab, but they are worth it to get the company operating at its peak.
If Your Coworkers Leave, Should You Stay?
Awesome coworkers can turn a ho-hum work experience into heigh-ho, heigh-ho, it’s off to work we go! But when your awesome coworkers start leaving the company, what happens to you? Should you hang in and hope for a fresh batch of awesome coworkers? Should you leave, too? Is there something they’re seeing that you aren’t? […]
How to Write a Job Posting That Lands Top Talent
All work and no play makes Jack a dull company. So while your job postings should be informative in all the right ways (and not contain any of these red flags that scare off applicants), they should also be inspiring and intriguing enough to attract the talent that best fits the job requirements and your […]
Do Your Job Postings Have These Red Flags?
Your job posting is often a job-seeker’s first impression of your company’s competency. Since like is attracted to like, competent employees are attracted to clear and competent job postings; they’re not going to waste their time applying for a sketchy opening. And you’re not going to look very competent if you’re including these red flags […]
What to Do When You Make a Bad Hire
Management IssuesRecruitment and Retention
It’s tough living under a significant mistake, especially when one of your new hires doesn’t work out. You made your bed, tossed and turned in it for a time, all while slowly realizing you might need to buy a new mattress. After much lost sleep, you’re ready to admit you made a bad hire. But […]
When It’s Time to Admit You Made a Bad Hire
Management IssuesRecruitment and Retention
It’s tough to admit a new employee is not the star you’d hoped for. But when you see these signs of a bad hire, you’ll need to act fast.
Are You Meeting Your New Hires’ Expectations?
First-year turnover hurts! It’s expensive and time consuming. And when, according to some studies, as many as 40 percent of new hires leave almost right after they start work, with an additional 10 to 20 percent leaving within the first year—it’s just plain discouraging. Keeping in mind most employees leave because their day-to-day role wasn’t […]
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The “better” way to conduct layoffs
Layoffs are hard on everyone. Even as business leaders and HR professionals, layoffs are one of the hardest things we have to do. Regrettably, many of us remember this from the all-too-recent pandemic layoffs. Layoffs are a reality we may soon face again as the threat of recession looms. And while we may not have […]
Resolve conflict like a champ
We’re hard-pressed to say conflict resolution is a fun or glamorous part of a Human Resources or leadership role, but it’s one of the most critical parts. How you mediate conflict impacts employee morale and retention, and also shows your leadership abilities and your willingness to tackle the tough stuff. Your conflict resolution skills can […]
Stop! and hire this candidate
It’s easy to criticize potential hires and spot reasons why we shouldn’t hire them. That one is too arrogant, that one lacks technical skills, and that one knows nothing about the company. Process of elimination, right? But too often we fail to recognize the positive reasons why we should hire someone. Positive flags can be […]
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