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 »
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Resume Tips for the About-to-Graduate College Senior
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 »
How to Find More Time
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 »
Workplace Flexibility Leads to Better Employee Health
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 »
6 Interview Questions New Grads Should Ask
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 »
The Benefits – Or Not – of Coaching Certification
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 »
Managing (Tackling?) Email
If you work in human resources, you are dealing with email, often a lot of it. Like everyone else in business, you are probably trying to figure out how to get control over it. In fact, email has become such a big issue at some places that they have threatened to ban it entirely. But… Read more »
Helping Employees Save Enough for Retirement
As just about everyone in today’s workforce knows, pension plans are going the way of the dinosaur, being replaced by employee contribution plans such as 401(k)s and Individual Retirement Accounts. But with the recent severe downturn in the economy, it has become evident that these retirement accounts leave a lot to be desired. Moreover, an… Read more »
Facing Your Fears and Getting Those Big Projects Done!
Many employees often undertake big, long-term projects at work. It may be a project with no definite deadline, or with a deadline that is several months away. These are the projects that often create the most anxiety, says business consultant Peter Bregman. Sometimes they lead to procrastination, until the deadline looms before you. Often, you… Read more »
Was it a Compliment or a Jab? How New Technologies Can Muddle Messages
In business, the situation with technology sometimes resembles a person stranded on a deserted island, surrounded by water, but none to drink. We have more ways to communicate than ever before, according to Stephen Paskoff, a human resources specialist, but despite that, all the advances in communication technology have done little to help us understand… Read more »