The majority of recruiters use social media sites like Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter to find and assess job candidates, but which companies and organizations are leading the way with social media recruiting? You might be surprised. According to the data in the infographic from RecruitLoop shown below, government agencies and departments are surprising leaders in social … [Read more...]
9 Corporate Personality Types and How to Motivate Them
Every employee of a large corporation has had to take some type of personality test. If you've taken a Myers-Briggs test and found your an ENFJ, an ISTP, or any of the other letter combinations that represent your personality, then you know what I'm talking about. These tests usually occur during some type of training class. The excited trainer leads the class through a … [Read more...]
Using LinkedIn to Recruit Talent
The economy has drastically changed over the past decade. With companies loosing revenue, and many shutting down entirely, employers have had to lay people off and many temporarily stopped hiring. While these knee jerk reactions were often warranted to save companies from financial failure – a business cannot sustain long term without appropriately staffing itself to meet the … [Read more...]
Amtrak Accident & Employer Liability
Amtrak was recently in the news for an accident between one of its trains and a semi-truck. A truck in Fresno collided with an Amtrak train which derailed the train, caused minor injuries among passengers and left the semi truck driver trapped in his vehicle. Two train cars were pushed onto its side by the accident – leaving a startled and scared group of passengers and … [Read more...]
You Are The Company’s Greatest Asset
The number of people choosing to work for themselves continues to rise. Entrepreneurs inspired by a vision and a dream set out on a course of business ownership, their only tools often being their mind, creativity and experience. If this is you, both now and in the future you may be your company’s greatest asset. Until you are able to grow your company to a large enough … [Read more...]
Top Tips for Breaking the Glass Ceiling
Advertorial: Though equal rights for women have been shouted from the rooftops over the last few decades with governments and business proclaiming a fair and just world for both sexes, it is no secret for women in business that life is just slightly more difficult. In fact just last year it was revealed that on average in the United Kingdom, female graduates were paid 20% … [Read more...]
How to Use Social Recruiting for Job Hiring [Infographic]
Want to find the best candidates for open jobs at your company? Social recruiting can help you do it. Using tools like Twitter and LinkedIn, hiring managers have access to information, referrals, and even job seekers that puts them in a strong position to find highly qualified job candidates. Job seekers are active on the social web. You just need to look for them, interact … [Read more...]
Time is Love
There is a new song out by Josh Turner entitled "Time is Love". Every time I hear this song it is a mini-exercise in personal and professional strategic planning for me. How often do we think about where we spend our time- and really get honest with ourselves? How often do we think about what we really care about, what matters most? And the final step... how often do we … [Read more...]
Employees: Love Them or Leave Them
As a small business owner you become intimately involved in every area of your company and work closely with most of your employees. There are several perks to this. You gain an intimate understanding of how your company works, understand your clients and their needs, and see the company culture at work on a daily basis. Small business owners do not need to look at reports … [Read more...]
Women, Leadership, Self-Care, and BLUE MONDAY
You wake up Monday morning, pour yourself a glass of orange juice, and get breakfast ready for your clan. Off to the office, you battle the traffic, thinking about how to tell your rebel employee that there have been complaints about his behavior. You dread the meeting and yet know it can’t wait. Pulling into the parking lot you feel a wave of frustration, seeing that … [Read more...]