CareerBuilder does a lot of surveys centered around hiring and workplace practices, but this one on Most Memorable Interview Mistakes has to be one of the … Read more
Using Social Media to Predict the Potential For Job Success
Facebook, and potentially other social media as well, can be used to assess a person’s potential for job success. That not so surprising conclusion … Read more
Social Media: It Has More Influence on Candidates Than the Numbers Show
Ask the next hire you onboard to describe everything, every step they took on their way to becoming a candidate, and you may be in for a surprise. If you … Read more
Five Things You Should Know About Your Newest,Youngest Employees
Are the very youngest Millennials entering the workforce today all that different from their slightly-older Gen. Y peers? Well, Beth Ann Kaminkow, the … Read more
Do You Have a Jeremy Lin Hidden Somewhere on Your Staff?
“Linsanity” has taken over New York and the NBA! Do you even know what it is? Let’s begin with some background: “Linsanity” refers to Jeremy … Read more
How a Manager Told an Employee to “Pray” Sexual Harassment Away
By Eric B. Meyer Worst. Advice. Ever. Two Denny’s waitresses have filed this complaint in a California Superior Court alleging that their manager … Read more
Diversity: It’s Good For Business, the Workplace, and All of Our Lives
It’s OK if the formula does not make sense. I have watched with amusement these past few weeks the reaction in the sports world to the phenomenon … Read more
Source of Hire Survey: Not Much Hiring Coming From Social Media
After two years of looking internally to fill vacancies, companies in 2011 again began to hire new workers, relying on referrals and job boards for nearly … Read more
Unpaid Internships? Excuse Me, But I Don’t See the Problem
If you have managed people and been on the job very long, you probably know that there are three kinds of workplace issues: Big and important ones; Small … Read more
Employees Who Are Never Out Sick? They Simply Bring it in to Work
Earlier this week, there was a fascinating story in The Wall Street Journal about employees who reportedly have not missed a day of work in decades. Yes, … Read more