Does your new hire packet include these four documents? If not, it should. Welcome Letter Including a welcome letter might seem like nothing more than a useless formality, but it’s actually the document that joins your entire new hire packet together. The letter should include a warm introduction, express enthusiasm that the new hire is… Read more »
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Finding a Career Mentor to Help You Advance Along the Career Journey
Today’s professionals are increasingly turning to career mentors to help them make informed yet ambitious decisions about their career journey. Career mentors, like other kinds of mentors, give focused, personalized advice draw from personal experience, but they focus specifically on the professional life. When the relationship is a successful one, professionals with a career mentor… Read more »
Is Your Management Style Crushing Team Creativity?
Does your business model require innovation in order to succeed? If so, creativity is one of your most important assets. But creativity is hard to find, hard to encourage, and hard to maintain. And it’s possible that despite your best efforts, your management style is actually making it harder for your team to work in… Read more »
Hiring the Modern Employee | What do Employees Want in 2015?
Any company that hopes to fill vacancies quickly, staff according to strategic objectives, and attract the top talent available must understand what the modern employee is looking for. The obvious answer is generous compensation and a fair benefits package, but is this enough to attract the best and brightest? Research suggests that today’s employees are… Read more »
Where Do You Want Your Career to Go?
It’s importance to realize the difference between the job you have currently, and your career as a whole. If you are like most professionals, you will work for at least several companies over the course of your career, move into different positions and accept unexpected responsibilities, and probably finish your working life someplace you never… Read more »
What Does an Employer Want to Hear When They Ask “Tell Me About Yourself”
“Tell me about yourself.” You hear it in almost every job interview, but answering it never gets easier. Do you mention your trip to Italy and love of classic rock, or focus instead on the research project you worked on in college and the software you are developing in your spare time? Unfortunately, answering this… Read more »
Is Your First Impression Hindering Your Hirability?
We all know that first impressions are important. But did you ever think that the way you present yourself to interviewers, managers, and industry influencers is what’s keeping you from getting a job? Ultimately, the first impression you make is just as important, if not more important, than your resume, interview, and credentials. If it’s… Read more »
Kick Start 2015 by Promoting a Health and Wellness Initiative in Your Workplace
Pledging to lose weight and live a healthier lifestyle is one of the most common New Year’s Resolutions. But who says it has to be a goal that is confined to life outside the office? Promoting a health and wellness initiative not only helps your employees achieve that elusive work/life balance, it can also makes… Read more »
How to Successfully Delegate Roles and Responsibilities for Post-Meeting Action
Here’s an experience every manager has faced – You walk out of a meeting feeling confident that your team is ready to meet and exceed your expectations. At your next meeting, you find out that things were done incorrectly, by the wrong people, or not at all. Some of the fault falls on the team,… Read more »
4 Ways the Job Search Will Modernize in 2015
If you’re looking for a job, you owe it to yourself to use every tool at your disposal and be prepared for every possible scenario. Here are four tech trends that will modernize the recruitment process in 2015 and change the way you look for a job. Alternative Interviews Skype interviews are not uncommon, but… Read more »