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 [...]
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 [...]
Developing job descriptions is an essential part of managing your business from an HR perspective. Job descriptions are the foundations for the development and implementation of many HR programs, including your company’s compensation plans. Because a job description touches so many pieces of your organization (i.e. recruiting, succession planning, training, legal, compliance) it is [...]
Principle Strategies LLC Receives A+ Rating from Better Business Bureau. Principle Strategies LLC, a human resources, business, and creative solutions company, is announcing its recent Accreditation and A+ Rating by the Better Business Bureau (BBB) of Greater Hampton Roads. Accreditation into the BBB is by invitation only, and extended to businesses that meets its stringent [...]
Young workers have different outlooks, responses to management They are connected but starkly different, two generations of Americans with different views of themselves, the world and their work. Where the post-Baby Boom group of Americans known as Generation X meets the succeeding generation of Millennials sometime in the early 1980s is a cocktail of cultural, [...]
Consociate Media owner Rudy Heinatz has been sharing insights and tips on the synergy that can occur between companies during outsourcing. He speaks from the experience of seeing an initial, small-scale outsourcing foray with Principle Strategies blossom into a productive, two-way relationship. In this blog post, Rudy shares his tips and insights on hiring employees [...]
