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Five Strategies for Hiring Success

Chart Your Course

The results were part of the NACE’s 2012 Recruiting Benchmarks Survey. Or here’s a twist- do generational differences influence hiring practices? Businesses with 2,500 to 5,000 employees paid the most for new hires– around $10,000 a person. Businesses employing less than 500 workers, paid the second most, around $7,500.

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9 Must Haves for Business Success

Great Leadership By Dan

Development opportunities must align with the company’s mission, goals and objectives, so use measurements, benchmarks and metrics to assure they are. Benchmark with other companies in your community and industry to understand best practices, but develop policies unique to the needs of your organization and your employees.

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Hiring the Best People – You’ve got it all wrong!

HR Digest

During the 2008 global financial crisis (GFC), BCG and the European Association for People Management surveyed 3,400 executives, including 90 senior human resources leaders in more than 30 countries, to see how they were responding. Start by benchmarking your current hiring processes. Keep it real. What are your typical hiccups?

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Online Behavior Assessments and the Science Supporting Them

Chart Your Course

FIVE SCIENCES OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR AND ONLINE BEHAVIOR ASSESSMENTS Behaviors/DISC Measured in four termperments (DISC: dominance, influence, steadiness and compliance), Behaviors reveal how an individual will perform, including what value he or she will bring to a team, his or her ideal environment and possible limitations he or she may face.

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Research: Stale Office Air Is Making You Less Productive

Harvard Business Review

Specifically, does better air influence a worker’s ability to process information, make strategic decisions, and respond to crises? In the second phase of the study, we moved from the lab to the real world to test for additional factors beyond ventilation, VOCs, and CO 2 that might influence cognitive function.

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What’s the Effect of Pro-LGBT Policies on Stock Price?

Harvard Business Review

At the same time, we began working with the Human Rights Campaign, which in 2002 had created the Corporate Equality Index (CEI) , the national benchmarking tool on corporate policies and practices pertinent to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender employees. Corporate social responsibility Employee retention Human resources'

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Research: Hiring Managers Are Biased Against People with Longer Commutes

Harvard Business Review

This bit of information may influence who employers pick. But the comparison at least provides a benchmark. Résumés attach a place to a person, and addresses indirectly tell employers something about the applicant’s neighbors, commute, income level, and preferences for neighborhood amenities.