- Who Are You? By : Declan Jones
You are your business.You know what you do and why.You know where you’re planning to go, and you know the hurdles your business will need to jump over to get there. You know who you are, but do job candidates?
Developing a brand is an important part of business today. What is a brand? It’s an image, a mission, and a purpose. It includes less tangible things as well, such as your current employees views and opinions and how your business is perceived in the marketplace. - The Interview By : Declan Jones
You’re hired. Despite the time and work leading up to those words, it cumulates in one hour, with one manager and one candidate. That decision can result in a wonderful addition to your company, or be the biggest mistake you’ve ever made.
There are ways to prepare for this potential life-changing interview. Start by delving into the past. Each job in each company is about so much more than technical skills and knowledge. Use the interview process to evaluate past performance and fit with your business’s environment and company culture. - Our Customers, Our Focus By : Declan Jones
Here are four things we focus on to keep our customers coming back.1. Learn the job. We find out what you’re looking for, and it goes beyond the job description. Basic skills and prior experience are easy to define, and if we search just those requirements, you’d have hundreds of potential candidates. In addition to skills, we want to know what it takes to be successful in this position. Why does a person really need five years of prior experience? Why would a top-level candidate want to work there? What is special about this job, about your business? The answers might not be on the tip of your tongue, but we’ll help you find them. Once we have the less tangible aspects of the job, we’ll have a better chance of finding the right person quickly. Remember, you are looking for someone to do the job, not to just impress you with a hefty list of skills.
Here are four things we focus on to keep our customers coming back...2. - How To Get Good Employees - FAST By : Declan Jones
Getting you the right person at the right time is critical. Neither of us wants the hiring process to drag, nor do we want to sift through hundreds of people who don’t meet your qualifications. That’s why it’s important for us to know what you’re looking for. Here are four things you can do to speed up the process and get the right person for your business. - How Personal Should You Get? By : Declan Jones
Personality has an obvious effect on performance and how well a new employee fits with the culture and environment of your business. You may even have specific personality factors defined for key positions. Does that mean a test can you give you the answer about which candidate is best? - Hiring in Today’s Market By : Declan Jones
Remember when hiring an employee involved advertising in a newspaper or trade publication?In return, you received envelopes or faxes, something you could hold in your hand, something you could compare to the nearly identical one on your desk in the last fifteen years, the way nearly every company does business changed.The internet became the primary source for posting jobs and reviewing candidates - Filling The Unique Job By : Declan Jones
All companies have them. Jobs unique to their business, a combination of tasks to be performed in a unique way, one that works just right for you. These are the jobs that have become specialized as your business grew. These are the jobs where you utilized and expanded on the individual talents of the people employed in them. Now one of these special people are leaving and you’re left with a position that is hard to fill. - Creativity in Finding Candidates By : Declan Jones
Do you know how many ways there are to find candidates? We do. Do you know how important they are in filling more jobs with fewer people? We do. Do you need to know the answers to these questions? No, but we do.Finding the right person at the right time is our specialty. In this day of technology, there are many methods of locating candidates. There are online application systems, resume-tracking software, job listings, web sites specializing in hard-to-find talent, chat rooms and forums. That’s to name just a few. - Ten Ways To Recruit The Best Employees By :
Starting off a business with the right people is by far the quickest and simplest method of getting the best results.
So here are a ten steps to getting it right...Note, potential employyes can get some clues here as well! - Generation Y - Is Your Business Prepared? By :
Have you considered how management level Baby Boomers retiring from the workforce will affect your business?
Have you documented the wealth of knowledge accumulated over the last few decades?
You may have an office manual, you may have a succession plan in the wings, however, are you truly prepared?
And better still, has your plan taken into account the nature of the generations to come? - What is Sexual Harassment By :
The definition of sexual harassment for legal purposes to determine if there is a lawsuit or a legal claim. - Is There A Place For Humor In The Workplace By : John Edmond
Lighten up! Okay, that may be hard advice for anyone who hears that phrase on the job, but humor in the workplace is more than possible and without getting served a pink slip either, but keep in mind that there are some jobs where humor isn't a good idea - The 2 Cs of Office furniture By : Kip Goldhammer
Think of the impact good office furniture has on a client visiting your office; and you will immediately realize the importance of office furniture. Since office furniture is part of the overall décor of your office, it plays an important role in creating a good first impression on your visiting clients. - An Environment that Motivates Employees By : Hans Hasselfors
Would you like to find out what those-in-the-know have to say about employee motivation? The information in the article below comes straight from well-informed experts with special knowledge about employee motivation. - Working for the Ministry of Defence By : Tony Beaumont
The ministry of defence has many career options for individuals who possess the required skills and experience. Nowadays, many individuals are choosing to work for the ministry of defence, because many have realized that the ministry of defence can offer them a rewarding and fulfilling career. Though there is a vast array of job opportunities within the ministry of defence, employers within this sector have a high demand particularly for engineering and IT professionals. As with finding jobs in most key sectors of the economy, applicants will invariably need the assistance of a specialist recruitment firm in order to secure the most suitable roles. Quanta is certainly a good example of a recruitment agency, which has the expertise and specialist knowledge required for finding candidates well-matched roles within a variety of industries. When Quanta was established in 1992, the company mainly specialized in providing effective IT solutions to the finance and telecommunications sectors.
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