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There Will Be Recruiting: How to Staff a Workforce in Remote Locations
Recruiting for jobs in remote locations like North Dakota's Bakken region isn't easy. But recruiting from the local population can help a company fill open positions in rural areas faster than targeting candidates from big cities.
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How Do We Successfully Succession Plan and Help Employees Prepare for Retirement?
How do we help retirement-age workers in lower-level jobs make the transition, even as we begin planning succession for higher-level jobs? We have some workers who are several years past our voluntary retirement age and want to make sure the company is prepared for their departure. For other ...
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Where There’s Smoke, There’s No Hire
Health care providers, which see their employees as 'role models and advisers to patients,' are among the organizations requiring tobacco testing for new hires.
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The Last Word: Gen Why?
Hey silent generation, baby boomers, Gen Xers, millennials, and that new crop of kids set to sprout into adulthood: Say what you want about the individuality of your cohort. Brag on being sullen, or collaborative, or industrious, or technologically ubiquitous, or even being green. Boast about why
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Before the Ink Dries ...
I'm all for offering workers incentives, but my guess is this latest stunt is as much about getting ink as it is about getting workers to get inked. Rapid Realty, a real estate company in New York, is offering its lower-paid employees a huge 15 percent raise on their commissions if they are willing
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Retention Strategies Take an Advanced Degree of Engineering
With growing numbers of high performers ready to leave their organizations, employers need to realize that those departures can be extremely costly for organizations in the resources it takes to recruit, hire and train new employees.
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Employers Plan to Hire Fewer Recent Graduates Than Expected
Students just about to graduate college this spring may have a harder time finding a job than previously expected.
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Learning to Save, Saving to Learn: A Portrait of the Next Generation
Neil Howe, president and co-founder of LifeCourse Associates, refers to people in their late teens as late-wave millennials. Howe says an important quality of this cohort is that they place a higher importance on education than older millennials.
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More Employees Unhappy With Work-Life Balance: Survey
While telecommuting can allow an employee to balance life and work, it may also limit their upward mobility within a company, according to a recent survey by Korn/Ferry International.
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Another Generation Rises: Looking Beyond the Millennials
Whatever trendy term winds up sticking—'Re-Gens,' 'Gen Z,' 'Pluralist' or 'Homelanders'—know that this group now entering its college years is your workforce of the future.
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Telecommuting May Limit Career Upward Mobility, Survey Says
While telecommuting can allow an employee to balance life and work, it may also limit their upward mobility within a company, according to a recent survey by Korn/Ferry International.
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Succession Planning Roadmap
… limited on-the-job leadership opportunities—and look for solutions. Review succession plans during annual strategic planning , to ensure development goals align with strategic goals. Be willing to adapt the succession planning list if your …
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Is HR at Its Breaking Point?
… Survey after survey continues to find that HR leaders are viewed as low status and better at transactional tasks than strategic planning . "If we're doing our job well, people don't say those things," Effron says. "It's very easy for HR to …
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Careers, Culture & Cancer
No one likes to talk about cancer, but it is not the taboo workplace subject it was in years past. In fact, progressive companies are supporting workers who have cancer like never before.
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'Shipping' and Handling: Picking the Right People to Head Overseas Is Paramount
Companies are increasing the number of corporate globe-trotters to emerging markets such as Brazil and China, but there is a potential price to pay beyond moving furniture.
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How Do We Divide Talent Management?
How should we divvy up responsibilities for talent management? Our feeling is that if it resides solely with HR, how could we hold managers accountable for execution? On the other hand, managers aren't really cut out to develop strategies for talent acquisition, workforce planning. I guess what I'm
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No. 4 ‘Best’ Company Looks Out for No. 1—Its Employees
Boston Consulting Group ranked No. 4 on Fortune's Best Companies list for its emphasis on a positive culture and the development of the firm's most important asset: its employees.
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'Global Nomads' Finding There's No Place Like Home for Benefits
The upturn in so-called 'global nomads'—those who move from country to country on long-term assignments—has focused more attention on their medical and retirement benefits.
