Yearly Archives: 2011
Why Companies Will Fail To Find Qualified Employees in 2012
Whether you believe there is a shortage of qualified candidates or an unwillingness of companies to pay the salaries skilled workers demand will be argued well into 2012 and beyond…
Recommended Reading List – HR and Hiring Tips of the Week
The Pros and Cons of Hiring a Virtual Assistant When you hear the media and experts talk about outsourcing, layoffs by big business and more lost jobs is likely the…
What You Need to Know Before Hiring Top Performers
As a follow-up to my article Why We Need to Hire Fewer and Fewer People, employers must first understand what it takes for a candidate or employee to become…
Monday Morning Huddle – Workforce Trends You Might Have Missed
Each week I receive and read dozens of articles, posts, and newsletters about workforce trends, recruiting, talent management, and pre-employment testing and screening. I bookmark the ones I find…
Why We Need to Hire Fewer and Fewer People
With an election year approaching and unemployment still high, lots of lip service and media ink are being wasted on ways to fix the jobless recovery. What a crock of…
Looming Doctor Shortage Just TIp of Iceberg?
Stories about the shortage of skilled workers are so frequent these days that many people just take the news with a grain of salt. But an article like the one…
Maximize Employee Engagement To Minimize Job Leavers
“Job-leavers” is what the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics calls those workers who quit one job without having secured another. The number of job-leavers is…
Job Creep Creates Overworked, Fatigued Workers
An unpredictable economy and persistent pressure on the bottom line has pushed employers to demand workers to do more with less…and often for less. Many companies are running lean…
3 Reasons Companies Must Engage Workers
The need to engage workers, not just pay them, is a popular topic. Just type “employee engagement” into Google and you’ll quickly come up with nearly 6 million results…
TV-Sitcoms-Give-Glimpse-of-Generation-Differences
We tend to remember the good old days with selective memory. We pick and choose what we want to remember…and forget. That clouds our memories and subsequently skews…