Weddles.com has published their annual user choice awards. Here are their top 30 online job boards. Unfortunately their newsletter does not have a link but does have some interesting points worth noting: Nine of the sites are making their first appearance. Two-thirds are niche or specialty sites providing recruiting support in a specific career, field, industry, location or group. One-third are general purpose sites.
Continue ReadingCommunicating With The CEO
In Selling Power’s latest Sales Manager’s Newsletter there is an article from Anthony Parinello, author of Selling to VITO and Think & Sell Like a CEO. As a sales manager who is working with a salesperson on their messaging, Anthony makes some great points about assumptions CEO’s hold about the business world. He provides seven assumptions – if your sales approach aligns with the CEO, he/she will not feel you are wasting his or her time: Knowledge is power. CEO’s seek knowledge. They understand that the more they know, the better their decisions. Thus your message must expand his or her flow of critical information, not clutter that flow. Passion… Read More
Continue ReadingTop 10 Corporate Gift Ideas
Having been a manager of 100+ employees, I always seem to get drawn in by articles like these, especially when they give it in a top 10 list (they hit on 2 of my weaknesses). This CareerBuilder article came through my RSS reader late yesterday. Most of you have probably completed your office gift-giving, but today may be the day for many of you. Fifty-six percent of the 1,150 hiring managers polled said they would be giving gifts to their employees this year. Of those 56%, about one-third plan to spend $10 or less, one-in-five expect to spend more than $25 and nearly one-in-ten expect to spend more than $50… Read More
Continue ReadingAre Your Employees Looking?
Apparently yes. From a recent poll conducted by Career Journal of nearly 500 employees: 41% of respondents admitted they are actively searching for a new job 35% considered themselves passive jobseekers 21% indicated they were not looking for a job at all So the obvious question is what are you doing to change those numbers within your organization? With 3 out of 4 of your employees potentially leaving, are you properly rewarding and motivating them on an individual basis? No two employees are the same so understanding their rewards and motivations will help ensure that your team is happy and content.
Continue ReadingTattoos and Piercings
In the last few of weeks I have been in a doctor’s office numerous times for different procedures. On one of these visits, I read an article in a dermatology magazine but I cannot recall specifics or find it on the web. I did find the the study which was conducted by American Academy of Dermatology. The article stated that 48% of American workers between the ages 18 to 29 have a tattoo or a body piercing other than in the earlobe. In my prior life I worked in corporate America and remember the issues we ran into with tattoos and tongue piercings. I remember at one point that neither… Read More
Continue ReadingAre Employees Satisfied with Their Compensation & Benefits?
In Segal Sibson’s 2006 survey of employee satisfaction, employees responded that their overall satisfaction with their benefit plans was droppiong. Satisfaction with their pay level dropped from 66% in 2000 and 2003 to 55% in 2006. In terms of benefits, I was surprised to see that healthcare benefits didn’t have the largest drop, it did drop to 54% from 60% in 2003, but the largest drop came in retirement benefits, dropping to 42% all the way from 56% in 2003. An interesting point that Segal Sibson made was that one company in particular had made a huge investment in retiree medical coverage, but very few of the employees (even those… Read More
Continue ReadingChristmas Bonus Trends – Gifts or Time-off
In a recent survey conducted by BNS and sponsored by Kronos, researchers found that more employers will give staff gifts and bonuses this year while fewer plan to extend the holidays by granting three or more days of paid leave. Here are some highlights from the survey: 49% of employers will give employees holiday gift items, cash awards or bonuses this year. This represents an increase over 2005 (40%) and is the highest figure reported in the survey’s 25-year history. 43% of employers are giving workers three or more paid holidays – down from other comparable years when these holidays also fell on Monday (49% in 2000, 47% in 1995… Read More
Continue ReadingWho is the Toughest? – Part 2
Back in early November I posted on a newsletter article from Workforce Management that middle managers are the most resilient group in the workforce. In one of their late November newsletters they previewed a new study due out in January from Monica Wofford International, a corporate training firm. They found that middle managers are lacking the emotional intelligence to advance into top leadership positions. They also found that middle managers tend to resist coaching as a toll for improving performance. They have piqued my interest and I will be sure to share with you more of what they learned in this study when it is released.
Continue ReadingEnergy Prices and Recruitment
In a recent survey of 3,000 workers and hiring managers by Robert Half and CareerBuilder, almost 50% of the hiring managers think higher energy prices will hamper their ability to recruit skilled workers in the next year. It is very common for hiring managers to be very focused in finding candidates who are extremely local, said Rosemary Haefner, CarererBuilder.coms Vice President of Human Resources. Job seekers are being a lot more selective now of opportunities that are closer to home or can take advantage of mass transit, she said, so they can have a better work/life balance. Now this article takes this information a little far in attempting to paint… Read More
Continue ReadingHappy Thanksgiving
We would like to wish all of you a happy Thanksgiving. I know we have a lot to be thankful for . . . our spouses, children, health and country. We hope that you have lots to be thankful for as well. Every year in elementary school, my youngest son always comes home with a new bit of information. As you might have guessed, he always draws me in on these trivial tidbits. I did some fact checking on the internet and provided some links to support them: The true beginning of the present Thanksgiving Day is believed to have come in the 3rd year the Pilgrims settled in the… Read More
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