If you’re graduating college this spring, consider yourself luckier than your counterparts of the last few years: a survey of businesses shows that most companies said they intended to hire more newly graduated college students this year than in recent years past. The annual survey by CareerBuilder.com and CareerRookie.com found that 54 percent of business… Read more »
A recent survey of more than 2,300 hiring managers and human resources professionals by CareerBuilder.com showed that more than one-third of them use social media sites to check up on job candidates, about 37 percent. Of those that did, about two-thirds used both Facebook and LinkedIn to review applicants, while only about 15 percent used… Read more »
You remember recess when you were a kid, don’t you? Well, it seems that recess isn’t just for kids anymore because a growing number of businesses are incorporating recess-type breaks for their workers, according to business writer Meg McSherry Breslin. And it has been showing results. If you work in human resources, it may be… Read more »
s you’re getting ready to leave college and enter the “real world,” read below for some tips on how to craft a professional resume, one fit for the corporate world you soon may find yourself in. These tips come from Resume 101: A Student and Recent-Grad Guide to Crafting Resumes and Cover Letters that Land… Read more »
If you’re trying to claw back some time out of your busy schedule, what can you do? One thing we can try is to look at things that really amount to little more than busy work in our schedule, but give us the illusion that we are accomplishing something. Here are a few suggestions from… Read more »
Turns out the flexible workplace supporters were right after all: workplace flexibility really does help employees’ health and well-being! A December 2011 study that appeared in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior followed a company that had instituted a new management system in which work was changed to that employees had considerable more flexibility… Read more »
If you’re a college senior, if you haven’t already started looking for a full-time post-graduation job, get moving! As you weave your way through the interview process, here are some questions you should ask the interviewer: First of all, be sure you research as much as you can about your potential employer. This has become… Read more »
Coaching plays an important role in business, helping employees gain new insight and skills in their jobs. Some organizations handle the training of coaches internally, while other human resource departments encourage their coaches and managers to get certified in coaching. What are the benefits of coaching certification? Is it necessary? In order to answer that… Read more »
With the increased pressures the weak economy has put on businesses, human resource departments may not be paying as much attention as they have been to organizing volunteer programs. Yet these kinds of programs have become even more important. Workers are looking to find ways to contribute their time and talents for a good cause,… Read more »
A recent survey has shown that there has been a big shift among younger workers in their attitude about preparing for retirement. Many are now saying they would prefer giving up salary now to get more in retirement and health benefits in the future. This sea change in younger worker attitudes could have a significant… Read more »