Employee Retention
Hiring Candidates
Analyze Your Workforce: People First, Numbers Second
Can you be a people person and a numbers person at the same time? If you’re an HR person, it doesn't really matter whether you can or can’t. Sugarcoat it as much as...
Employee Retention
Tackle Social Media Legal Issues at Work
The way we engage professionally via social media is offering new opportunities in the world of work. However, it's also limiting the overarching control that companies have on employees’ ability to communicate. At the SHRM...
Employee Retention
Don’t Change Your Social Policy, Change Your Culture
A very hot topic of discussion in the blogger lounge at this year's SHRM National Conference was whether or not your company should have a social media policy. John Sumser (@johnsumser), founder of...
Employee Retention
Employer Branding
Sourcing Candidates
Breeding a Company Culture that Attracts Top Talent
Rackspace is one of those young companies, like Google, Facebook, Zynga, and Zappos that has a culture of fun. It’s a great talent attractor. At the Talent Net Live conference at SXSW, I asked Michael...
Employee Retention
Tech Bosses: Teachers or Graders?
One of the most vital relationships in the workplace is between managers and their staff. In fact, eight in 10 tech professionals say their boss plays an important role in the decision to stay or...
Employee Retention
What Recruiters Can Learn From David Beckham
Not long ago, it looked like soccer star David Beckham would not sign a contract extension with his current team, the L.A. Galaxy. OK, so Beckham might be a bit past his prime, but European...
Employee Retention
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 percent to 90 percent of...
Employee Retention
Four Tips for Work-Life Balance in the New Year
Resolutions aside, we can all stand to make a few improvements to how we manage our time at work and at play. Despite our most determined efforts, I’m sure we’ve all been accused of failing...
Employee Retention
Retention’s Not Just About Pay
Among his 2012 talent-management predictions at ere.net, John Sullivan, a former Silicon Valley talent pro and now a professor at San Francisco State University, predicts that "retention issues will increase dramatically." It's a...
Employee Retention
Risk Mitigation Techniques for Talent Management
Any investment you put into your talent could go to your competitor when people move on. That fear of lost investment often creates a reluctance to train your own employees. “You get into this paradox...
