Articles by Leslie Stevens-Huffman
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Resumes: Electronic Screening Expands to Smaller Firms
Large companies use applicant tracking systems to scan keywords and evaluate candidates from their recruiting databases. No news there. But, if you think you can get away with submitting generic… -
Incentive Travel: Motivate Employees with Free Time
The economy may be recovering but employers won’t be rewarding top performers with all-expense paid trips to Monaco, at least not this year. Although incentive travel has returned to about 85 per… -
Get the Real Scoop on Prospective Employees
You can conduct interviews, assessments and run a background investigation, but reference checks are the only way to confirm your conclusions and get the real scoop on prospective employees. Form… -
Games Make Work Fun
Innovative managers have traditionally used contests and incentives to motivate employees and eliminate the tedium of performing routine tasks. But now, gamification is becoming widespread as man… -
Workforce Diversity Starts with Diverse Pipelines
You wouldn’t fish for barracuda in a pond, or fresh water trout in the ocean, but every day, recruiters attempt to meet their company’s workforce diversity objectives by trolling through profiles… -
Outsourced Recruiting Lives up to Its Claims
There’s no shortage of providers jumping into the recruitment process outsourcing arena, now that the economy and job market seems to be improving. In fact, today you can contract for outsourced… -
Use Your Imagination to Hire Positive Thinkers
Wouldn’t it be great if every new hire had a positive attitude? Studies show that positive thinkers are more productive and resilient, in fact, the positive brain is 31 percent more productive th… -
It’s Time for Painless Performance Reviews
Performance reviews are like the weather, everyone talks about them, but until recently, it seemed that HR didn’t want to do anything about them. The grumbling across Corporate America grew so lo… -
Make Sure Telecommuters Get Off on the Right Foot
With budgets tight and the residential real estate marketing still in a funk, both candidates and employers are reluctant to incur relocation costs to fill a job opening. When they can’t find loc… -
Cost Per Hire: How Do You Stack Up?
Companies are directing more of their time and recruiting budgets toward social media, but are those investments paying off? Only 1 percent of open positions were filled by candidates sourced thr…