Looking to cut corners during the hiring process is understandable in the current economic climate. Who doesn’t need to reel in spending? But if you are considering skipping a solid pre-employment testing process before you hire your next employee, we ask that you consider the long-term costs that can result. What will it cost [...]
Archive for 2010
Don’t Dismiss the Benefits of Pre-Hiring Testing
Monday, July 26th, 2010Why We Love Employee Wellness Programs
Friday, July 2nd, 2010Before you sit down to do your regularly scheduled cost-cutting review of company expenses, please read “Leave Well Enough Alone! - The Case For Continuing With Wellness Programs”, a great article recently published at Daily HR Tips, one of our favorite blogs. The piece has some excellent points:
In fact, wellness classes have proven to [...]
Who Asked That Excellent Audience Question on “Business Matters” the Other Night?
Friday, June 18th, 2010Why, it was our intrepid leader, Tina Hamilton, that’s who!
Tina participated in the live audience taping of “Business Matters”, which aired on WFMZ on June 7, 2010. The episode was entitled “Unions: Past their prime or now more than ever?” and turned out to be a very lively discussion about union pros and cons [...]
Is Your On-Boarding Program Welcoming or…Well..Crummy?
Monday, June 7th, 2010We just read this excellent article on the importance of making a good first impression on your new hires during the first few days of their arrival at your company.
Here’s one of our favorite points from the article “Does Your Company Welcome Policy Make Your New Hires Want To Stay Or Go?” on the blog [...]
Is Mediocrity Promoted in Your Office? Don’t Let It Be!
Thursday, May 20th, 2010If you ignore, misuse, or demean talent within your company—even during this recession—they’ll move on to greener pastures. That’s the overall take home message from BusinessWeek’s recent article “Five Ways to Ensure Mediocrity in Your Organization.” The magazine details “five of the most insulting leadership practices, the ones that virtually guarantee a business will [...]
Sticks and stones may break your bones, but words can come back to haunt you.
Thursday, May 6th, 2010Sure, you know the obvious words to avoid using around the office, such as “&*(%^%$*“, “*(&*^&%$” and “%$$*^#@“. But do you know the more subtle words and phrases that might also be damaging your image at work? Yahoo! Hot Jobs recently posted “The Worst Words to Say at Work” that lists nine common words and [...]
hireVision’s Tina Hamilton Offers Great Interview Tips in Woman’s World Magazine
Thursday, April 29th, 2010President Tina Hamilton has been tapped as an HR expert again, this time for Woman’s World Magazine’s “Land that job with new recruiter-proven tricks!” The article, which appeared in the April 26, 2010 issue, offers advice to job candidates on how to improve their “soft” skills, which the define as the ability to be able [...]
Top 5 Reasons Why People Left Their Jobs in the Last 12 Months
Friday, April 23rd, 2010We found these jaw-dropping poll results over at DailyHRtips.com. The survey, by Right Management Consultants and originally published in HR Magazine, asked 1,308 people why they left their jobs in the last year. (Totals add up to more than 100% because people we able to give more than one reason.) Here’s what they found:
1) [...]
CareerBuilder.com Working to Combat Resume TMI Syndrome
Monday, April 12th, 2010How many times have you looked over a resume and thought to yourself, “Oh, this applicant should not have included that”? How often does a case of too much information result in a job seeker being cut during the resume screening process?
The Work Buzz, a CareerBuilder.com blog, recently posted “6 things you should probably [...]
