With Yahoo’s! recent decision to stop telecommuting, I thought it was a good time to look at the pros and cons of telecommuting. It is an interesting issue and one with pluses and minuses for...
Employers: 5 Tips on Keeping Your Best Employees
It’s not a secret. Hiring is expensive and time-consuming. But in order to succeed, you have to find the best employees, and you have to keep them. The right people, and the right team, can give you...
Job Interviewer ‘Tips’ for Providing Meaningful Candidate Feedback
Most candidates want feedback on their job interview. It will help them refine their interviewing skills. This is often difficult for an interviewer. Time, specific feedback guidelines. There are...
Severance Pay: 5 Need-to-Know Tips
On Friday, October 26th, Laura Saunders in the “Tax Report“ for the Wall Street Journal, wrote about a very important subject–severance pay. The question she discussed: Do laid-off...
Corporate Confidential: 50 Secrets You Should Know
A book, “Corporate Confidential: 50 Secrets Your Company Doesn’t Want You To Know and What To Do About Them,” was recently recommended to me. The author, Cynthia Shapiro, worked in...
Beware of Bad Hires: 10 Scary Stats HR Pros and Job Seekers Must Know
Hiring is hard and a bad hire costs the organization money. You can interview someone a number of times and call all their references, but is that enough? Profiles International just released statistics...
