Professional pride and ambition drive the best professionals to achieve. Most employees want to be a part of a compelling future, want to know what is most important at work and what excellence looks like in the eyes of management. For targets to be meaningful and effective in motivating employees, they should be connected to […]
5 Reasons To Onboard Millennials Online
Why Online Onboarding is the Better Way For Millennials What type of employees are you hiring? What generation are they in? As the millennial generation (also commonly known as Gen-Y and includes births from 1982 – 2000) grows in the workforce and baby boomers retire, managers and human resources professionals need to think about the […]
Developing Internal Candidates
Promoting internal candidates to fill open positions has big advantages. Internal candidates are already familiar with how your company works, and having a regular practice of promoting employees means you increase the chance that your best employees will stick around. In order to ensure that your current employees are qualified to fill your openings, it […]
Launch a Corporate Wellness Program with Creative Low Cost Ideas
Everyone’s talking about improving the health and wellness of their employees. Sure, it makes sense from the standpoint of producing greater engagement and reducing the costs of healthcare premiums through preventative wellness support. Corporate Wellness is Worth the Investment As of 2015, the RAND Corporation reports that an estimated $6 billion is spent per year […]
SHRM Survey Suggests Employee Turnover Is Biggest Issue Facing HR
Are you concerned about filling jobs in your company? Do you lay asleep at night worrying about better ways to achieve employee engagement? You are not alone! Employee retention, employee engagement and succession planning have been ranked as the biggest challenges faced by HR departments in 2015. The findings come from the 2015 SHRM/Globoforce Employee Recognition Survey which suggest […]
Canadian Talent Management Summit
Do you ever leave a conference thinking “those were some fun presentations but I’m not sure how it relates to what I’m doing?” It’s a trap that many conferences attendees find themselves falling in to. They may leave energized or inspired but without any real takeaways. This was not the case for me at the […]
10 Top Social Voices In Recruitment
Want to know the big social voices in and around Recruitment? You have come to the right place! Here’s our who’s who of the big Staffing voices on Twitter. 10 Big Recruitment Voices On Twitter 1. Shanna Landolt – President of Secrets From a Headhunter, Guest Editor at The HR Gazette, Your Leading Authority on Leveraging LinkedIn and The Landolt Group – a […]
How Discriminatory is Video Interviewing?
In this article I will be discussing discrimination in regard to asynchronous (one-way) video interviewing rather than two-way conference style interviews but these points should apply to both. We understand there is no legal issue, as discrimination is measured and based on workforce composition and organisations can be audited to ensure compliance, according to the […]
Journeyman: It’s A Status, Not A Gender
Journeyman: It’s A Status, Not A Gender – The HR Gazette interviews Jamie McMillan, a skilled Ironworker/Welder and founder of Journeyman and the Workplace Equality (W.E.) Awareness Ribbon initiative.
Interview: Tim Baker on HR, Company Culture and Saturday Night Fever..
Tim Baker is a HR & career services Consultant, coach, leader, mentor, connector, story teller, dad, hockey coach, Editor of Learning at The HR Gazette and, according to his Twitter profile, he even once balanced a lawn chair on his nose! Let’s meet Tim.. Editor: Tell us about your personal career history and what brought you […]