When you receive a cold call at your office from someone you’ve never met, are you ready to pull out your credit card after a five minute conversation? … Read more
When It’s Time to Tell the Boss Goodbye
You made the decision to leave. You put together a competitive resume, circulated it through professional recruiters and online, interviewed with too many … Read more
Ask Barb
Q. I subscribe to many Internet Job Boards like Monster, Dice and others that cost me thousands of dollars a year. It seems my recruiters spend all their … Read more
Reference Checks: Versatile and Profitable
Properly conducted reference checks can be one of the most versatile tools for building your business and increasing profits. Good referencing techniques … Read more
Answers to the 7 Sign-On Bonus Questions
Nobody likes to pay a candidate. But sometimes that’s the only way to get one to interview or accept an offer. If you’ve thought about the idea but … Read more
Identity Fraud Protection Increasingly Offered as Recruitment Lure
While a just-released SHRM survey reveals that rising healthcare costs are employers’ chief concern, a growing number of insurers and corporate … Read more
SHRM Lobbies for Better Federal Database for Employment Verification
Members of the Society for Human Resource Management have plenty of business in Washington regardless of whether they’ve traveled to the … Read more
12 Key Negotiating Techniques for Success Inside and Outside of Recruiting
You possess skills that, when applied to your boss, your staff, the manager of your favorite store, the home-repair company, and the hybrid-car salesman, … Read more
Workforce Vendor Looking Behind the Persian Curtain
The Albany Group calls itself the “largest provider of global workforce management solutions in the world.” Some vendors would debate that, but … Read more
Fourth Annual Screening and Assessment Usage Survey
We IO-psychologist-types tend to be real data hounds. Much of the work we do for our employers/clients involves the use of data to investigate specific … Read more