4 Ways to Improve Your Hiring Process to Help Retain Employees
If employee retention is a problem for your company, it might be time to go back to the drawing board when it comes to your hiring practices. Even with the recent decrease in unemployment, it can be...
View ArticleHow Many Employees Will Resolve to Find a New Job in 2013?
A terrific new infographic just came out from Cornerstone OnDemand, based on their 2013 U.S. Employee Report. The main thrust of the report adds to what seems to be the New Year’s resolution of the...
View ArticleHelp Them Grow or Watch Them Go: Why Feedback is so Important
To Our Readers: This week, TLNT is continuing our annual tradition by counting down the 35 most popular posts of this past year. This is No. 32. Our regular content will return Wednesday January 2,...
View Article4 Ways to Improve Your Hiring Process to Help Retain Employees
To Our Readers: This week, TLNT is continuing our annual tradition by counting down the 35 most popular posts of this past year. This is No. 28. Our regular content will return Wednesday January 2,...
View ArticleThe Secret of Employee Retention is Actually Pretty Easy
What is the one single thing that employees hate more than anything else? Change. Bar none, “change” would rank as the most disliked thing that a company can do to its employees. I know, I know; all of...
View ArticleWhat Motivates Employees to Stay? It’s Mostly About the Pay
Sometimes, the simplest and most logical answer that makes the most sense. So it is with CareerBuilder‘s latest survey that digs deep into just what it is that an organization can do to keep a talented...
View ArticleWhat Children Can Teach Us About Winning and Retaining Employees
Human Resource specialists frequently boast graduate degrees and specialized skill sets gained from attending professional seminars and career development courses. However, sometimes the clearest...
View ArticleWant to Retain Employees? Ask ‘What Would It Take to Make You Leave?’
Michele Klein, HR Manager for Fidelity Exploration and Production (a large player in the booming oil and gas industry) was doing an exit interview with an engineer who was leaving to take a similar job...
View Article4 Things You Can Do Right Now to Help Keep Your Best Employees
Editor’s note: Laura Kerekes is the Chief Knowledge Officer for ThinkHR. She will be contributing regularly to TLNT. The first quarter of the calendar year is the best time to consider employee...
View ArticleWeekly Wrap: Workers May Leave? Survey Says Employers Don’t Care
Much has been written (and a lot of it by me) about how employees are ready to jump to another job as soon as another good opportunity comes along. This should be a concern for employers, no? Well, no....
View ArticleHiring Wisdom: Do Your Actions Show You Really Want Them Back?
I just received an email with the subject line “We Want You Back” from a new health club that came into my area about six months ago. I did take advantage of their pre-opening special, but after the...
View ArticleMillennials on the Job: They Want to Commit, But Will We Let Them?
Accenture recently published its 2013 College Graduate Employment Survey findings. There’s lots of great data — especially if you plan to hire recent college grads. In fact, some of the data is...
View ArticleRetaining Top Talent Is More Than Just Telling Employees “Thank You”
In the last few months in my travels to lead workshops with clients and to present at various HR and strategy conferences around the world, I’m hearing a repeated refrain about employee retention. In...
View Article10 Tips For Reducing Employee Turnover
Many people agree turnover is a growing issue, particularly as hiring picks up. But what are most organizations doing about it, aside from implementing some short-term solutions when they discover it’s...
View ArticleHiring Wisdom: 10 Steps to Hiring and Retaining a Great Team
Take and stay in control of your team. Share your desire, vision and purpose with your team to move them in the right direction. Let only positive people on your team. Your attitude is contagious, so...
View ArticleSurvey: Half of Companies Report Higher Turnover Than Last Year
For years, there have been worries that there was a big employee exodus coming — when the economy finally started to show some improvement and began growing jobs again. Yes, this has been the worry —...
View ArticleWhat’s the No. 1 Worry For HR Executives? Surprise! It’s a Talent Issue
Want to know what’s reeeeeeally going on in the world of work? Right Management, the talent and career management arm of ManpowerGroup, has released a flurry of study results in recent weeks. Here are...
View ArticleHiring Wisdom: Feedback on “Ways to Guarantee Your Best People Quit”
We received the following comments from a reader in response to my monthly Hiring Hint entitled Top 10 Ways to Guarantee Your Best People Will Quit. …Management can, and will, ignore this list, and all...
View ArticleTurnover Can Be Good, or Why Great Gardeners Know to Pull a Few Weeds
Two of the most direct, measurable people metrics affected by strategic, social employee recognition are employee engagement and employee retention. Nearly all organizations I consult with cite...
View ArticleHiring Wisdom: Exit Interviews – Usually Too Late to Do Any Good
Exit interviews are about as effective as closing the barn door after the horses are out. The best time to learn how your valued employees feel about their jobs is before they decide to leave. Here are...
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