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Employees’ Choice Awards by Glassdoor: 50 Best Places to Work
Employees’ Choice Awards Glassdoor is excited to announce our fifth annual Employees’ Choice Awards, a list of the 50 Best Places to Work. The top 50 winners were selected by the people who know these companies best – their employees. Choosen excerpts by Job Market Monitor from via Best Places to Work | Glassdoor.
10 startup hiring challenges
What is one common issue that you have faced with startup hires and how have you rectified the situation? Ten entrepreneurs weigh in: 1. Can’t adapt to startup style 2. How much are you really worth? 3. Alignment adjustment necessary 4. Can you think for yourself? 5. Uncommitted candidates 6. Adopting the startup structure 7. … Continue reading
US / The top 5 legal issues currently facing employers
Following XpertHR’s recent launch in the US, legal editor Michael Cardman discusses the changing legal landscape and reveals the top five issues that US employers are facing. 1 Social media The proliferation of social media poses risks and rewards for employers. Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn can help employers to spread brand awareness, recruit new employees … Continue reading
Flexible retirement
Mickie Ashman has what she regards as the ideal arrangement at work as she nears retirement. The 66-year-old Calgary human-resources co-ordinator has the security of a permanent job at AltaGas Ltd., an energy infrastructure firm, but she has been able to reduce her work hours from full-time to a more comfortable three days a week. … Continue reading
UK Public Sector / 70% of hiring managers saying a lack of new talent is hindering efficiency
Over 1.5m public sector job vacancies will need to be filled by 2017, but ‘poor perception’ is presenting a key barrier to attracting new recruits, according to new research. Bridging the Gap: Developing a framework to attract new talent into the Public Sector – published by the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) and … Continue reading
HR / Personality Assessments / Best Performed by Outsiders
Human resource departments often have people complete a self-administered personality profile as a method to match a person to job tasks or to assess job performance. A new study finds that businesses will get more accurate assessments of potential and current employees if they do away with these self-rated tests and find an outside observer … Continue reading
Workplace appraisals: tick boxes
UK employees are not seeing any benefit from appraising their own performance according to research published today by recruitment consultancy Badenoch and Clark. The research claims that appraisals, if not carried out effectively, could become a tick-box exercise that wastes time for organisations and fails to contribute towards real career development for employees. HR director … Continue reading
UK / HR workers among the unhappiest
The findings, released today by vocational training organisation, City and Guilds have found that HR professionals are some of the unhappiest across the UK workforce. The Career Happiness Index 2012 looks into what people in the UK consider to be the most important factors contributing to their happiness at work. The index found that among … Continue reading
Layoffs Don’t Benefit Hospitals
Dean Gruner, MD, and Chris Van Gorder are not your everyday health system CEOs. Dr. Gruner is president and CEO of ThedaCare, a five-hospital system in Appleton, Wis., with roughly 6,100 employees. Mr. Van Gorder, a former police officer, is president and CEO of Scripps Health, a five-hospital system in San Diego with almost 13,000 … Continue reading
Do Younger RH Discriminate Older Workers ?
Dear J.T. & Dale: My belief is that the younger generation of HR workers openly discriminate against older employees. I believe they are threatened because they are simply outperformed by the 40- to 70-year-olds. Thoughts? – Aaron J.T.: I’m not sure that it’s a question of who’s more productive, but rather, who’s less expensive. Labor costs … Continue reading
PricewaterhouseCoopers – China and Hong Kong – 12 days holiday in the coming months, eight unpaid
More auditors in Hong Kong can expect to be taking extra-long holidays, courtesy of the city’s sluggish IPO market. This week, accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers announced that to help avoid layoffs, employees in mainland China and Hong Kong will be offered a chance to take an additional 12 days’ holiday in the coming months, of which … Continue reading
The State of Human Capital: “people processes” are failing to keep pace
Human capital professionals are struggling to meet the needs of an-ever changing global business landscape. As global markets and technology evolve, “people processes” are failing to keep pace. While tremendous strides have been made over the past decade in areas like workplace diversity and flexibility, the human capital function has largely lagged behind in effecting … Continue reading
UK – How will training budgets change
How have learning and development budgets changed over the past 12 months? Across the whole economy, nearly two-fifths of organisations say their learning and development budget has remained unchanged over the past year. A further three in ten report a decrease, while one in four says it has increased. More than half of respondents from … Continue reading
Calling in Sick – The Top 10 Excuses
…Here are the top 10 unusual excuses given for calling in sick: Employee’s 12-year-old daughter stole his car and he had no other way to work. Employee didn’t want to report it to the police. Employee said bats got in her hair. Employee said a refrigerator fell on him. Employee was in line at a coffee … Continue reading
Best Buy – Geek Squad workers – Hiring on Layoffs ?
On the heels of saying it would lay off 600 Geek Squad workers, Best Buy Co. Inc. says it will hire 500 skilled employees for the unit. Best Buy (NYSE: BBY) spokesman Bruce Hight said Monday that the hiring should be complete by the end of the year. “They’re restructuring, and some particular types … Continue reading
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