Recruiting the Right Employees for the Right Results
Imagine that you’re setting up an online dating profile. When you want to attract the right person for you, there are a few things you need: a good photo, a fun description, and list of your interests. But hiring new employees isn’t like dating, or is it? If you want to recruit the right employees [...]
Continue reading...3. October 2012
How to Interview to Get the Information You Need
As an HR representative, you have a specific way that you need to handle everything from interviews to onboarding, etc. But that doesn’t mean you can’t take the rules and make them even more effective. In an interview, for example, you need to consider the ways in which you can get the information you need, [...]
Continue reading...2. October 2012
Easing the Transition for New Employees
When someone new is hired into a company, everyone has to make adjustments. While you might be filling a role that needs to be filled, you need to remember the other side of the transaction: the employee. They might be moving to a new city or a new country, which is upsetting for anyone, no [...]
28. September 2012
Getting a Letter of Recommendation from the HR Department
The HR department is responsible for a variety of tasks, including letters of recommendation. Whether an employee needs a letter for their next job or to apply for another role within the company, the more helpful the HR department can be in this process, the more supported the employee will feel. There are a variety [...]
26. September 2012
How to Create an Effective New Hire Orientation
When welcoming new employees into a company, it helps to offer them a new hire orientation. This is a process in which the new employees will learn about the company as a whole, what’s expected of them, and how they can more easily fit in with others already in the department. To ensure this orientation [...]
24. September 2012
Pre-Employment Testing: The Answers You Need
There are many ways in which employees are testing during their application and interview process. But before employees are interviewed, the HR department may want to have some pre-employment testing. This will assess the skills and other areas of the employee, helping the process of determining whether the employee is a good choice for the [...]
21. September 2012
Making Employee Performance Appraisals Work for You
No matter what an organization is trying to do, they want to be able to do it better. The HR department can help to facilitate this process with employee performance appraisals. These are processes in which the employee’s performance is evaluated so they understand where their talents may be, as well as where there is [...]
19. September 2012
The Truth about Employee Transfers
When an employee is chosen to move from one office to another, it can help the organization better distribute its resources. With the support of the HR department, these transfers can be made more efficient and more effective, even if when employees haven’t expected such a change to occur. To make transfers more productive: Be [...]
17. September 2012
Implementing a Mentoring Program
Learning to be a good employee isn’t something that happens overnight, in most cases. It takes time to learn how to perform a job well, and it can take years to bring an employee to their full potential. Instead of waiting for this progress to occur, it can help for the HR department to implement [...]
14. September 2012
Why Employee Background Information Matters
The employees you hire are going to come not only with skills, but also with a history. If you can find out about their background, you can more effectively decide if they’re a good fit. That said, there are some questions you can’t ask, but there are also background pieces that you can discover before [...]
12. September 2012
Downward Communication Can Speak Volumes
Messages are sent from the upper levels of management down to employees on a daily basis. As a part of HR, your job is to make sure these messages are not only received, but also delivered in the most effective way. Thankfully, there are many ways that you can approach these sorts of messages so [...]
10. September 2012
Giving Feedback that Gets Heard
You can’t expect employees to change if they don’t know what to change. This is where the HR department can step in and help with communication. Instead of simply leaving feedback to managers, HR can be the ones to distribute necessary feedback and then file it in the personnel files, ensuring everyone knows what’s [...]
7. September 2012
Do You Welcome Employee Complaints, Or Not?
Complaints – no one wants to hear them, but they can offer valuable insight into the inner workings of a company. Plus, when employees feel they have an opportunity to speak up, then they feel they are being appreciated for their opinions. Sometimes, the best plans can come from complaints that are heard from the [...]
5. September 2012
HR Department and Quotas
One great way to ensure all employees are staying up to par on their production levels is to implement a quota system. This technique will help to stimulate production, especially if it has become stagnant. Each department and/or task can have a set quota that must be met daily, weekly, monthly, or quarterly. The department [...]
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- Recruiting the Right Employees for the Right Results
- How to Interview to Get the Information You Need
- Easing the Transition for New Employees
- Getting a Letter of Recommendation from the HR Department
- How to Create an Effective New Hire Orientation
- Pre-Employment Testing: The Answers You Need
- Making Employee Performance Appraisals Work for You
- The Truth about Employee Transfers
- Implementing a Mentoring Program
- Why Employee Background Information Matters
5. October 2012
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