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Category Archives: Workforce
What Do Candidates Want?
After years of uncertainty in the labor market, things seem better. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the first quarter of 2015 possessed more than five million job openings. To put this in context, the last time the … Continue reading
Posted in Organizations, Workforce
Tagged candidates, hiring, new employees, recruitment
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Career Choices
Most of us at one point or another provided career advice to someone. It might be a friend, coworker, sibling, or child that wanted to better map out their future while maximizing the value of their skills and abilities. However, … Continue reading
Posted in Organizations, Workforce
Tagged career, career advice, job, job growth, STEM
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Finding Your Way More Quickly
Most of us grew up assuming we would know what we wanted to do when the time came, follow that path and gain the training and education that we needed, and realize our dream by working our career in our … Continue reading
Posted in Organizations, Workforce
Tagged hiring. job hopping, job change, recruitment
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Being Nice in a Linked World
I recently had a conversation with a colleague regarding how the concept of “being nice” varies across people. In our more connected, over-engaged, and fast paced world, it is easy to become impatient or even irritable and let the “niceties” … Continue reading
Posted in Organizations, Workforce
Tagged being nice, connectivity, interaction, relationships
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Motivation and Money
Most of us know the feeling of having to strengthening our resolve to do something that we dread. As a student, it may be completing homework that holds no interest to us, attending a class that lulls us to sleep … Continue reading
Posted in Performance, Workforce
Tagged extrinsic, intrinsic, money, motivation, rewards
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Customer Service
We all have our favorite customer service stories. For some of us, it might be lack of scruples of our local automobile repair shop, the horrible services of a restaurant, the cattle herding mentality of an airline, or completely inefficient … Continue reading
Millennials Revealed
As the workforce demographics change, millennials continue to grow in importance not only as team members, but as leaders. While considerable emphasis has been placed on recruiting and retaining millennials, most organizations still struggle to attract the best and brightest … Continue reading
Posted in Organizations, Workforce
Tagged cohorts, generation y, generations, Millennials
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The Danger of Excuses
Excuses make us human. They incorporate our imagination, higher level rationalization skills, desire for acceptance, and propensity for avoiding negative feelings or feedback. All of us have provided an excuse to cover our failure to meet expectations, when circumstances inhibited … Continue reading
Posted in Organizations, Performance, Workforce
Tagged accountability, excuses, responsibility
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Naughty and Nice
We have all dealt with a “naughty” or problem employee. Most of us can close our eyes and remember at least one person we worked with that contributed little, yet stirred up controversy and consumed a disproportionate amount of time … Continue reading
Posted in Organizations, Performance, Workforce
Tagged disruptive employee, poor performer, problem employee
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Who is Missing?
As we near the holiday season, the temptation to have a “recovery day” or just an extra prep day for holiday festivities becomes greater. Based on a recent CareerBuilder survey, December is the most likely month for employees to be … Continue reading
Posted in HR Operations, Organizations, Uncategorized, Workforce
Tagged absent employee, absenteeism
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