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8 Meticulous Hiring Tactics to Land the Best People

Leading Blog

Ask stress questions – Stress questions are those that test an applicant’s ability to perform under pressure. They require the candidate to react spontaneously to a stressful situation. Some examples of stress questions include: “How would you handle a customer who has verbally insulted you?”

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Minimalism: Doing More, with Less

In the CEO Afterlife

Released in 2016, this documentary directed by Matt D’Avella captures the lives of Joshua Fields Millburn and Ryan Nicodemus. Less stuff, less clutter, less stress, and debt, and discontent. As human beings in a society obsessed with consumerism, our options for nearly everything in life are limited. Imagine a life with less.

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Tracy Layney Makes Way for Her Vision

HR Digest

We’ve seen the positive impact of paid leave in our employees’ lives since we introduced paid parental leave in 2016. Tracy Layney, Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer, Levi Strauss & Co . . Tracy Layney is Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer at Levi Strauss & Co.

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Holidays Can Be Stressful. They Don’t Have to Stress Out Your Team.

Harvard Business Review

” But, for others, it can be the loneliest and most stressful time of the year. According to a 2015 Healthline survey , 44% of people say that they are stressed during the holidays, with more than 18% reporting that they’re “very stressed.” But preventing it all together should be the real goal.

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I’m making someone use their holiday to grieve over their mother’s death

HR Digest

On average, four days allotted for the loss of a spouse or child, according to the Society for Human Resources Management 2016 Paid Leave in the Workplace Survey. Many employers give three days’ paid time off for the loss of a parent, domestic partner, sibling, grandparent, grandchild, or foster child.

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Leaders: Build Your Pre-Resilience for Times of Crisis

Strategy Driven

The idea that leaders have some special aura only removes them further from their genuine, authentic, and human selves, which is precisely what they need at hand to help their stressed organizations. Copyright 2007-2016 by StrategyDriven Enterprises, LLC. Use your own stories to educate yourself. About the Authors.

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How Some Companies Are Making Child Care Less Stressful for Their Employees

Harvard Business Review

The 2016 Care Index released by the New America Foundation and Care.com shared an increasingly troubling cost profile of child care right now. “This can be hugely stressful when you have to arrange daycare,” she says. Photo by Mike Wilson. The cost of child care in the United States is high. This is not news.

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