Never stop being a student, even when you're the one in charge. Learn from this month's Employer HR Tips! Keep Employees Engaged: As an employer, it is your job to motivate employees as well as keep them engaged in the company and the work they are doing. Prioritizing employees’ engagement is beneficial as it leads [...]
Looking to improve your skillset as the boss? Check out this month's helpful Employer HR Tips! Keep Job Descriptions Current: Job descriptions are essential in attracting the right kind of candidate for the job. They should list criteria, expectations, and key skill requirements necessary for completing the expected tasks. Therefore, it should act as a [...]
Looking for your next career? Here are this month’s Job Hunting Tips! #1A clean profile Today employers often check the social media channels of potential new hires. Your due diligence as a future employee is to clean up any past content that employers may frown upon. #2End with a bang! Close out the interview with [...]
Thinking of looking for a new job? Here are this month’s Job Hunting Tips to help make your search a success! #1 Ready For Your Follow Up Be prepared for your interviewer to ask follow up questions to your replies. For example; if you say your strength is organization the interviewer may ask what you [...]
With health care reform legislation taking effect, waiting until your annual benefit renewals to learn your benefit costs have increased or that you are not compliant based on your current workforce is often too late to shop for better alternatives. Health care costs continue to grow faster than the economy. The past five years have [...]
One of the more difficult aspects of running a small business is wearing multiple hats from sales and marketing, to human resources, to payroll and accounting. When considered in conjunction with a recent Wells Fargo/Gallup small business survey that found small business owners work an average of 52 hours per week with the majority, 57 [...]
Not all companies take the time to design perks and incentives in the most effective ways. Although offering corporate perks can have positive impact on employee engagement, many employers do not truly consider what they offer and why. If not done strategically some perks loose their initial motivating factor, and just become a general expectation [...]
Disengaged workers cost American companies billions. Almost seven out of 10 American workers were not engaged or were “actively disengaged” in their jobs, according to a Gallup poll released earlier this year. Just 32 percent of the polled workers were engaged in their jobs. What does that mean? A lot to a business owner! Engaged [...]
Preparing to hire your next employee? How much will it cost you? There are several steps an employer will need to make—each contributing to the overall time and cost associated with hiring a new employee. The actual cost of hiring begins accruing before a candidate starts their first day. Basically, your costs involve more than [...]
Principle Strategies, a human resources, business, and creative solutions company, is now providing employee assessment testing services to assist companies to effectively hire and manage their employees. Partnering with the Owen Van Syckle, a Norfolk-based sales consultant, Principle Strategies has incorporated assessment testing services as part of its recruiting services and as a human resources [...]
