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Who’s the Boss: 9 Tips for Hiring C Level Talent
The process of filling entry-level positions is repetitive: screen applicants, sort through resumes, sit through interviews and select a lucky candidate to call your team their own. And though this new hire is vital to the company’s daily operations, it’s not the end of the world if it…
Does Flextime Benefit You More Than Your Employees?
Are you resisting offering employees at your small business flexible working hours because you think it’ll give them an excuse to slack off? Well, some new research should convince you otherwise. It seems flextime may actually be less flexible than a regular schedule.
The 2012 National Study of…
Navigating the Recruiting Maze
For a lot of hiring managers and small business leaders, hiring remains the most crucial pain point. If you magically get the right people, stuff just gets executed. However, we never make the perfect hiring decisions all the time. Sometimes we are in a hurry to fill the role, and the options…
Ask That Job Candidate if He or She Ran a Lemonade Stand
Around this time each year, career-minded college students are busy sewing-up internships for the summer months. A new study by Millennial Branding illustrates that entrepreneurial experience is in demand by nearly 1 out of three employers.
The study, conducted with Experience Inc., compiled…
Hiring Issues and Healthcare Put Damper on Small Business Growth
According to a new poll, the Manta SMB Wellness Index, small business owners were planning to hire at this time last year, but the majority (80 percent) haven’t added a single employee through the first quarter of 2012.
The survey found that more than half of small businesses (53%) say they…
Creative People, We Need You Says Elance Report
If you are a freelancer with creative skills, you are highly marketable today. And if you are in a small business needing to hire a freelancer or service provider with creative capabilities, you may find the competition for talent heating up.
That’s according to the first quarter 2012…
Best Buy CEO Resigns: a Lesson in Workplace Relationships
Best Buy was in the news recently as it announced a $1.7 billion quarterly loss, along with layoffs and the closure of 50 of its 1100 stores. And then came the news that Best Buy CEO Brian Dunn had resigned upon mutual agreement. If you weren’t listening carefully, you might have assumed…
Overwhelming Majority of Small Business Owners Optimistic, Says SurePayroll Survey
After years of living under the rain cloud of recession, things may finally be looking up, at least judging by the results of a recent survey conducted by SurePayroll for March 2012.
The SurePayroll Scorecard, which looks at national, state and regional hiring and salary indices as an indicator of…
6 Intangibles Make You A Premium
Companies and small businesses are not just hiring bodies anymore, that seem to fit and might move the needle. The right people, the best personalities for the culture, who not only have the skills but bring the intangibles that can impact that culture are getting hired.
Hiring managers tasked…
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