Retention is a concern for every company, regardless of prevailing market conditions. If your retention program is lax in any area, it can provide an opening for your best employees to pursue other opportunities.
5 Tips to Build Self-Esteem and a Successful Employment Attitude
An area that’s critically important to a person’s success is their employment attitude. Here are five tips to build self-esteem & confidence! A person’s attitude and frame of mind can have a tremendous impact on the quality of their work, as well as how they are perceived. Cultivating a positive attitude is tied directly to […]
What VP Candidates Can Teach Us About Vetting Potential Hires
One of the hottest topics this summer—for both professional talking heads and armchair politicians—is Mitt Romney’s choice of a running mate. Hopefully, Governor Romney will vet his choice well. This is a valid concern, since history is full of lousy vice presidential candidates. This brings to mind the importance of thoroughly vetting the people you […]
I Don’t Need a New Job – 5 Tips for Conducting a Passive Job Search
How many times have you heard of somebody finding the perfect job—even when they weren’t really looking for a new job? Those people know just how important a passive job search can be to the advancement of their career.
3 Dynamic Steps for Improving Your Work-Life Balance
People are dealing with a lot these days and many find it hard to find a work-life balance. They’re working one or more jobs, fighting long commutes, managing a household, raising kids, attending school or re-training, and/or dealing with aging parents. Do any of these sound familiar?
Presenting Brian Tracy’s Seven Rules of Success
I’m a big fan of Brian Tracy, the acclaimed self-help author and motivational speaker. His books and seminars impart practical, straightforward wisdom that has rung true down through the years, and he’s still providing guidance and advice in the world of achievement. I’m pleased to share one of Tracy’s most recent videos: The Seven Rules […]
Top 4 Traits for Building a Culture of Performance
Some think that the key to increasing performance is to hire top performers. An even better way is to create a culture of performance. A culture of performance generates higher levels of performance—and productivity—just by its very existence. In other words, the desired performance is generated by internal factors, as opposed to external ones (i.e., […]
4 Tips for Hiring Successful Employees
Every manager desires to have a team of successful people working with them. Hiring successful employees starts at the beginning of your candidate search. If you have the ability to assemble successful teams, you’ll be respected by your bosses and remembered after you leave. The trick isn’t in knowing that you should hire successful people, […]
Internships: A Great Way to Brand Yourself
Internships offer valuable experience and present you with the opportunity to build your brand. A USA Today article contained some valuable information about internships, and much of the advice that it dispensed dealt with ways to provide great experiences for those around you and also brand yourself in the best way possible.
Today’s Top Candidates Define Success as . . .
f you want to hire the best candidates, you have to know what the best candidates want for their career. Although every candidate and employee wants to be properly compensated for their skills and talents, money and other compensation is far from what they ultimately desire—and that was proven once again in SimplyHired’s “2011 Today’s […]