What’s keeping you up at night? In Silicon Valley it’s the same as it’s always been – retention and recruiting. The recession made no impression on the talent market here in top tech industries. One SVP of HR reports “he still has to pay top dollar for hard-to-find talent, and he has to work creatively […]
Posted on June 11th, 2010 by admin
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Arizona – along with much of the rest of the country – is hoping to secure some funding that will support students and those with Tucson teaching jobs and other education positions throughout the state. Gov. Jan Brewer recently announced that the State of Arizona has officially submitted its application for the second round of […]
Posted on June 10th, 2010 by admin
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I’ve read more articles, reports and blog posts than I can count about employee turnover and retention in the economic recovery (most recently in the WSJ: “More Workers Start to Quit”). I’m sure you have, too – the crux of all them is that employees will soon have a choice of employment and those employers […]
Posted on June 9th, 2010 by admin
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Join me this Thursday, 10 June 2010, (8:30am Pacific/11:30am Eastern/4:30pm GMT) as I host a free webinar with Bill Catlette and Richard Hadden, the authors of the Contented Cows books, as they discuss what makes today’s workplace different and how frontline leaders must adjust to the changes. We’ll discuss:• How to reboot and rebuild trust• […]
Posted on June 8th, 2010 by admin
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While the economy begins to amp up and the universal populace has excess cash to splurge, retail hiring will begin to recover, creating other sales positions in Phoenix, such as La-Z-Boy jobs. Retail salespersons are regularly responsible for marketing products, such as furniture, motor vehicles, appliances or dress in a retail store. While these employees […]
Posted on June 8th, 2010 by admin
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In my final look at why employees love gift cards in a reward program, we saw how, with the introduction of gift cards into an old catalog selection – within weeks 90-99% of employees will select the gift cards! That’s exactly why catalog providers hate them, because your employees love them! Let’s look at one […]
Posted on June 7th, 2010 by admin
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Nearly a year ago, David MacLeod and Nita Clarke were commissioned by the Department for Business (BIS) to take an in-depth look at employee engagement in the UK and to report on its potential benefits for organizations and employees. Mr. MacLeod summarizes the main findings of the report well in this 2.5 minute video. In […]
Posted on June 4th, 2010 by admin
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Do you have a health and wellness program in your organization? What about an employee engagement initiative? If you have both, do you look for correlation between the two? How about causation? Causation, of course, is harder to prove than correlation, but Gallup recently released interesting research on the effects of employee engagement on employee […]
Posted on June 2nd, 2010 by admin
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Continuing my look at why employees love gift cards in a reward program, we saw how, with the introduction of gift cards into an old catalog selection – within weeks 90-99% of employees will select the gift cards! That’s exactly why catalog providers hate them, because your employees love them! Let’s look at one more […]
Posted on June 1st, 2010 by admin
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