Is a Personal Domain the Answer?
What can you do to stand out in the sea of job candidates applying for a job? Many job candidates ask this questions daily, but few have found the right answer. While most job candidates today understand, they must market themselves, they still are unsure how to do that. Could it be that a personal domain is the answer? Hiring managers and recruiters are going to do an online search about you [...]
Stop Wasting Money on Your Job Posting
Over 90% of hiring managers and recruiters agree that a job description and job ad is the most important element in the hiring process. A well written job posting can attract higher quality candidates, offer a larger selection of candidates, shorten the job search cycle, lower your hiring costs, and contribute to employee retention rates. Recent studies have shown that on average, businesses spend more than $650 million in rewriting job descriptions [...]
Between Jobs Agenda
For most job seekers, being in-between jobs usually means committing the majority of your time to job searches. While finding a job is the ultimate end goal, it should not be the single goal you possess during your job search. You must have a between jobs agenda. In today’s competitive job market, simply searching for a job is not enough. During your time between jobs, you must work on making yourself more [...]
Employee Engagement = Friendships at Work
As a business owner or a hiring manager, you probably know that a happy employee equals a productive employee. The negative impacts on a business and its bottom line due to unhappy employees can be felt for a long time and are often hard to overcome. Employee engagement is something that every business tries to improve. What you may not know is that recent studies have indicated that positive employee engagement stems [...]
Negotiating Your Salary
When asked, job candidates admit that the hardest part of obtaining a new job is the salary negotiation. In fact, many job seekers will avoid positions that require or request salary information during the initial process, just so they do not have to have the uncomfortable conversation. While negotiating your salary may be uncomfortable, it is necessary in many positions. Shouldn’t you receive what you are worth? The fact is that most [...]
Ways to Improve Your Employee On-boarding
If you are like most businesses today, you scratch your head, wondering how you can improve your on-boarding process and increase your retention rates with new hires. So many companies struggle with their employee on-boarding, and do not even know where to begin to try and correct it. The first thing you must look at to improve your employee on-boarding process, is to remove all the negative thoughts you have about it. [...]
