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First in HR: Know Your Numbers in Hiring

22 March 2013

With any job, it’s important to know where you stand and then set goals for yourself, and often times this is a numbers game. As the hiring manager, your goals need to be something tangible and quantitative. It’s not enough to show the metrics of your busywork (humber of job ads posted, hours logged or…

Fine Line between Good and Bad When Hiring an Employee

13 April 2012

When hiring an employee , what qualities do you look for? It used to be that having the ability to do the job was enough. Not so much anymore. A recent news story out of Texas tells of how Citizen Medical Center in Victoria, Texas, has a new mandate. All employees must have a body…

Feel Like a Heini? You Will After THIS Interview [Video]

30 September 2014

All job interviews are the same. What is your biggest strength? What is your biggest weakness? Many candidates will tell you what you want to hear… it is hard to gauge talent before you hire when everyone gives you the same answers. Passion. Perfectionist. The same tips for both the recruiter and the candidate are…

Fail Safe Hiring: The SSID Process

16 January 2015

We all understand the importance of a process to achieve certain defined goals in our company. For instance, the sales pipeline process is well understood and frameworks such as “Predictable Revenue” have been adopted successfully to build sales teams and achieve targets. When it comes to our hiring, we also have cues of sound processes…

‘Facebook Queen’ Spills the Beans on Increasing Facebook Fan Base

13 February 2012

Facebook with over 800 million users is currently the most popular social media tool for business networking. Facebook page is most helpful for small businesses and large businesses alike to reach millions of people. Many organizations, entrepreneurs and small business owners set up Facebook page, but fail to attract a fan base. That’s because they…

Entrepreneur Secrets of Michael Klim

29 March 2012

Michael Klim, the Olympic swim star has established a successful business with male skincare brand Milk, his last name spelt backwards. Klim says he learnt a lot from committing mistakes while setting up his business. Here are 5 secrets of Michael Klim for growing entrepreneurs: Love what you are doing Do something new, creative and…

Employee Referral Program Tips that Actually Work!

04 June 2013

Referral programs can do wonders for a business. Referred employees have higher retention rates and increase employee engagement in their company. But generating a successful referral program takes a lot more than a few free toasters. A good referral program starts with creating a work culture that has a positive employer brand. Becoming a company that…

Employee Motivation a Brand Exercise

01 May 2012

Your business depends upon having talented and driven people working for you, but your competitors’ businesses are no different. In the same way that you differentiate your brand for your customers, you must carefully implement a strategy to make jobs at your company more attractive than the jobs offered by your competition. One important way…

Employee Engagement Myths Debunked

06 May 2014

Engagement and retention are huge topics right now in HR, and leadership in general. High turnover numbers and epidemically low employee engagement numbers are costing companies in a big way. For a while, employers were running their organization’s engagement and retention efforts based on some ideas that we now know aren’t effective. Employee engagement specialists…

Email me your resume

14 July 2011

Email has become such an integral part of our life. We exchange notes, messages, attachments, invitations, news, subscriptions to digital things and so much more. We live on our email. And now it is on our phone as well. A little typing and a little clicking – vroom! It is so easy! As the years…