With the economy being what it is, many small businesses are shying away from hiring in help. The need for assistance, however, doesn’t always go away just because the financial backing isn’t there to put someone on staff. If the quality of a project is in question because of a lack of experienced backup, there [...]
Many companies are too small to employ full-time HR staff, or they may have a specific HR issue for which their staff is not trained. Whatever the situation, every business will have an HR need at some time or another: the solution might be to hire interim HR staff as needed. Here is what interim [...]
There are many different types of award plaques, so before you decide what type you need, you want to look at what you want to do with them. There are small award plaques that can be given to one person who has met a certain criteria or done a certain thing and needs to be [...]
If only changing behaviour were as simple as sending people on training courses and having them come back fixed! The process is not ever that simple, but it can be broken down into a number of steps, each one easy to define and in practice fairly straightforward to manage.
The steps described below define evaluation [...]
If you’re a company that prides itself on providing recruitment services to young employees and workers throughout your area, you need to have a process in place to actually know who’s hiring. Right now especially with the economy in turmoil and the risk of rising unemployment always on the horizon, there is a real need [...]
Proper use of facts when you talk about performance sets the scene for rational, safe and constructive discussion. Preparation of facts before opening a discussion on performance is an essential first step toward a good performance appraisal.
Problems arise when a manager opens a conversation on performance with an emotional accusation and does not make the [...]
Every now and then, you might ask yourself what things you can do to streamline some of the operations of your business. Whether this means cutting back on some of the things that you do personally or simply finding a job in the office that can be outsourced to cut costs and reduce the time [...]
During these strained economic times, many employers may lose sight of why a good employee recognition program is so important. Indeed, this sort of awards program is vital to a company’s success, as it promotes high company morale and productivity. It can be easy to come up with reasons as to why this sort of [...]
Nowadays, legal recruiters have recognized some very basic needs of the legal community. Every year in the country, thousands of lawyers graduate and aspire to serve the needs of corporate America. Companies often install dedicated legal counseling departments that serve and give out legal and corporate advice, workout with and guide the companies through contracts, [...]
Attorney search firms are continuing to provide qualified applicants to companies with legal needs. Whatever the scale and size of their business, every organization will find it beneficial to maintain some kind of legal counsel within their base of operations. Institutions are finding it more cheap and efficient to hire in-house legal counsel that can [...]
