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Top 10 Effective Hiring Strategies
Hiring Strategies are crucial to your companies success Does your hiring strategy come down to posting a job in a few recruitment portals and hoping the right candidate sends in their application? There are many recruitment strategies, but posting and hoping are not...
Top 5 Things an Applicant Tracking System Does Wrong
Top 5 Applicant Tracking System Failures 1. Ask them to register for your applicant tracking system (ATS) before they have learned enough to decide if they want to apply. Before a candidate can apply for a job within most companies he/she must “create a profile.” ...
How to create a leadership development plan
Developing Your Leaders is Vital to Growing Your Business A leadership development plan is a strategic tool that creates a pipeline of strong leaders in any organization. It helps identify the leadership competencies that suit the organization's culture. It...
Lower turnover of employees – 7 Strategies that work
How to lower turnover of employees Employee turnover is part of any business. However, retaining employees from the beginning will reduce wasted time, effort, and cost. According to JOLTS (Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey), 3 to 4.5 million employees leave their...
5 Employee Retention Myths
Employee Retention Retaining good employees is a challenge for all organizations. While most organizations say they want their employees to stay, employee turnover is considered an acceptable part of doing business. Very few organizations try to keep their retention...
What is a succession plan, and why is it important?
What is a succession plan? Succession planning is developing a talent pipeline for executives, leaders, and other key positions within the organization, even if those are non-leadership roles. A succession plan will allow for smooth business continuity if the...
How to do Performance Management Right
What is Performance Management? When running a company, you need to ensure that whatever you are doing is done right. The basic principle of running a company is to ensure that your efforts do not go in vain and that your employees produce fruitful results. For this,...
Why traditional job applications don’t work
Why traditional job applications fail the candidate and the company The traditional job application process involves posting on many job boards with a detailed job description, a lengthy application to be filled out online by the candidates, a recruiter sifting...
The Top 5 Ways to Speed up The Hiring Process
Sometimes it can take forever to find the perfect employee. However, you might have spent several days/weeks or months looking for an employee and wish that there was a simple way for you to speed up the hiring process. We can help with these five ways to speed up the...
Why managing with empathy increases employee engagement
How to manage employees with empathy to increase employee engagement Empathy is the ability to recognize and understand feelings from others' views. Leaders with higher empathy tend to understand others' perspectives better and react with more compassion. “If there is...
More About Dr. Jaffee
Dr. Jaffee (M.A., Ph.D.) is a recognized expert in the field of assessments, and has created effective HR Solutions used by millions of people.