You can be proud to work here. That is one of THE most important messages your new employee orientation program should communicate. This is so crucial because people of the caliber you want to attract and retain place...

Facebook, and potentially other social media as well, can be used to assess a person’s potential for job success. That not-so-surprising conclusion is reported in the Journal of Applied Social Psychology , and comes out of two studies —...

Ask the next hire you onboard to describe everything, every step they took on their way to becoming a candidate, and you may be in for a surprise. If you track your source of hire, chances are excellent...

What I learned recently is that colonoscopies and pre-employment testing have a lot in common. First of all, managers and employees dislike, maybe even detest, the seemingly invasive nature of both evaluations. Second, you can’t fake out the...

After two years of looking internally to fill vacancies, companies in 2011 again began to hire new workers, relying on referrals and job boards for nearly 50 percent of their external hires. Social media, though it accounted for...

An IT staffing company you probably haven’t heard of is quickly hiring employees and recruiters after it won some new business that it probably hadn’t dreamed it would. XpertTech has already grown about 400% in six months money-wise,...

In today’s roundup we’re going to give you the secret to a more productive workforce. This isn’t one of those five-tip lists that tell you to start by raising the level of engagement. Nope. The secret we’re going...

I continue to be impressed by the evolution of pre-employment assessment tools. This evolution is being driven by the continued growth of the value proposition assessment provides. As a result, an increasing number of new product include embedded...

Having worked with and trained many recruiters and owner/ managers all over the world, it is clear to me that almost universally, the first improvement that can be made is in actually measuring performance. It probably won’t surprise...