What Do You Value in Employee Characteristics?
Employers look for many different characteristics in their employees. The ranking of importance is different with each employer, but for the most part they are all looking for the same ones. Each employee must possess a balance of these characteristics in order to land their dream job and keep their employer happy, so some assessment during an interview is necessary to look for the perfect employee. Strong Work Ethic – Employers can usually find this characteristic when contacting previous employers. The employee should demonstrate...
read moreHiring Top Talent in Emerging Industries
Across the Nation, startups have plans for massive hiring growth this year. That’s always a challenge, but even greater when hiring for positions that didn’t exist three years ago. How do you find experienced employees for a completely new industry? A recent Mashable.com article reports that many fast growing companies in emerging industries, such as social gaming, green tech, cloud technologies, and mobile development are experiencing the same thing. “It’s a problem created by successful innovators,” says Mashable...
read moreHow to Know a Candidate Fits the Job Description
When filling job vacancies, employers use valuable time and resources to find the perfect candidate. In addition to the time it takes for interviews, they use their valuable time in checking employment references and the background of the candidates they choose to speak with. When the process is complete, they are left with the monumental decision on which candidate they should hire for the job. If the wrong choice is made, even more resources will be lost in employee orientation and job training. It is necessary for the employer to...
read moreHow to Make the Most of Your Meetings
“Meeting.” It’s a word that makes many executives and managers cringe at the very sound of it. Really, how many of us go to work looking forward to a meeting that day? It isn’t so much that meetings are unnecessary, but the way they’re often conducted makes them turn out to be one, big waste of time. Typical managers spend nearly 40% of their work hours in business meetings, and that’s not counting the time spent preparing for them. A survey of business leaders showed: 33% of time spent in meetings is unproductive 75% of the...
read more9 Tips for Retaining Top Employees
Top talent doesn’t come cheaply, and retaining them gets even more expensive. Losing a top performer can increase recruiting costs, associated fees and up to five times the amount of salary. There are also other factors that come into play that could cause a company financial ruin: Lost productivity; both by the employee and his or her surrounding team. Loss of morale by remaining employees that impact productivity and interpersonal dynamics. Lost of intellectual property. Here’s some tips from Summit Assessment Solutions that will...
read moreRetaining High-Performing People
Retaining talented, high performing leaders forms the foundation that leads to sustainable success. Thus, the goal of every company should be to ensure that leadership is top notch and developed in all areas of the organization. One of the primary keys to retaining talented people is to know how they feel within the context of the organization. In fact, a poll of U.S. employees by staffing agency Randstad revealed that 86% of employees felt their happiness on the job depended on employers letting them know that they were valued. Unfortunately,...
read moreDemonstrating Leadership in Action
Leadership qualities are connected to who we are deep down, and because of that, every leader has a different style. Some leaders brandish their eccentric, charismatic selves and depend as much on their charm as they do their competency. Other leaders prefer to lead quietly, working their magic behind the scenes. But whatever an individual’s preferred style is, leaders who generate high performance in individuals and organizations generally display the same five common practices of exemplary leaders: 1. Lead by example — Competent...
read moreKeys to Successful Employee Engagement
Improving the quality of an employee’s inner experience while he or she is on the job will result in elevated performance. This is because the better we feel at work, the more effort we are willing to expend to accomplish the tasks we’re assigned to. If this is the case, then why don’t more employers focus as much energy on analyzing the core feelings of their employees as they do on physical tasks and workplace atmosphere? Most likely it’s because it could be taken as being invasive when trying to monitor how people “feel” at...
read moreHow To Make Your Employees More Organized
You may have hired an employee thinking he or she was a great fit for your company but it is now apparent they are lacking one thing: organization. Maybe you have assembled a team to complete a project and they are an outright mess. So how do you change your employees’ messy habits? Changing habits to ways of organization is key for the success of your company, and ultimately your employees’ future employed there. Given written instructions. Whether it is a written job description at the beginning of employment or instructions for each...
read moreEmbracing Social Media as a Hiring Tool
By John Torre Back in the dark ages when the Internet started to gain popularity, many business owners were reluctant to allow their employees to use it at work. They didn’t understand the value and potential that the Internet could have for their business. It’s not hard to understand why. Back in the Internet’s infancy it was largely viewed as merely a fun, personal means for connecting with friends. And while it is still viewed and used that way, of course, its present day marketing reach has become something that no one could have...
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