Founding president for the Center for Work-Life Policy,  Sylvia Ann Hewlett, has a new book called “Off-Ramps and On-Ramps: Keeping Talented Women on the Road to Success.” In it she writes that while 37 percent of qualified women “off-ramp” or opt out of their career at some point, generally to raise a family, a majority (97%) […]

I was laughing.
Okay, maybe not laughing, but definitely chuckling when I read recently that Bersin & Associates, a talent management consultancy firm, conducted a survey of 750 business and 55 senior HR executives and found that “more than half admitted to a critical shortage of line managers as well as difficulty in identifying, hiring and […]

Founding president for the Center for Work-Life Policy,  Sylvia Ann Hewlett, has a new book called “Off-Ramps and On-Ramps: Keeping Talented Women on the Road to Success.”  In it she writes that while 37 percent of qualified women “off-ramp” or opt out of their career at some point, generally to raise a family, a majority […]

Summer is on us once again. And along with the warm weather comes a flurry of young workers seeking to make a few extras dollars during their break.
So when a recent California reader asked about hiring minors for summer work, I thought it might be a good idea to remind everyone what you need to […]

Hiring and retaining the right people requires designing an integrated recruiting function which links your processes both before and after hiring. Since we’ve already looked at the before portion, let’s look at what to do once you have a new employee on board.
The new employee now requires the tools necessary to be successful in his/her […]

How often have you had someone ask, “What’s our cost per hire?”
Do you care? How important is it? Too often organizations link staffing efficiency with cost per hire or time to fill believing this will determine return on investment (ROI) and tell them if they are making the right hires. Not true.
Your cost per hire […]

The value chain is basically a model of how a business receives its input – generally in the form of raw material – adds value to it through internal processes and then sells the finished product to customers.
The people value chain is an extension of this in that in order to have a successful business […]

Okay, why not? We have video dating. And college hopefuls have been known to send videos as part of their application package. So why shouldn’t candidates submit a video resume in order to secure employment?
Well, according to the just-released survey by Vault.com 89 percent of respondents indicated they would watch a video resume if it was submitted. […]

Man’s main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality
- Erich Fromm
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), DISC Personality Profiling Assessment, Work Style Profile, True Colors Personality System…
Personality profiling is a process that most of us have gone through […]

Soft skills – that great unknown quality.
For most managers and recruiters, identifying whether or not a potential employee has more than technical abilities to do the job can be difficult. It’s fine to be a programmer analyst and to have knowledge and work experience with specific computer operations. But are you also capable of working […]