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Why Hiring Based on Cultural Fit Is a Disruptive Practice
Tina Huang, an Asian woman, filed for discrimination based on gender, saying current employees hire and promote candidates who look and act like them. Do you find yourself guilty of this practice? Making diversity part of your hiring process will provide the appropriate structure for learning and succeeding in this multi-cultural market. It Starts from the Top Diversity in the […]
The Truth of On-boarding a New Employee. Dare to Try it
6 months. This is how long it takes for a new employee to decide to stay or go, says a study by Deloitte. Think about the time you have spent writing the job description, posting the job, sourcing candidates, interviewing and hiring. Therefore, you certainly want a return on your investment for having spent so much time and effort finding […]
You Don’t Need To Be a Large Multinational Business to Retain Top Talent
Every entrepreneur knows that the team he or she builds is the backbone of their business. Without great employees you cannot have a great business. When you are a small business without the cash to find and retain top talent, how do you find and keep the stars that you need? Let me show you how you can attract and […]
Overview of Employee Assessments
In many organizations, personnel costs are among the largest budget line items. Given the top challenges facing CEO’s, organizations need their leaders, managers, and people aligned and working together at the highest levels of performance. This overview of employee assessments shows how this tool is important in addressing this challenge. Employee assessments can give organizations and managers consistent, in-depth, and […]
Bill C-45 and Cannabis in the Workplace
Drastic changes to legislation around cannabis including Bill C-45 have left many business owners in the dark about how to deal with the use of cannabis in the workplace. Our research has revealed some critical questions for which business owners urgently need answers. For example: If an employee is a medical user, as the employer must you accommodate the employee […]
Hiring People with Disabilities is Good for Business
Hiring people with disabilities is good for business and that is why increasingly there are programs to integrate the disabled into the active workforce. For example, in 2014, the Government of Ontario introduced the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA). AODA is about making accessibility a regular part of finding, hiring and supporting employees with disabilities. Companies Find Hiring […]
Why are manholes covers round? Is one of the questions asked to the wannabe Googlers. Google wants to assess creativity and problem-solving. In other words, Google is looking for a quick answer that proves not only the candidate is agile, but logical, adaptable and math-minded. But what these “trick” questions can’t highlight is a quality that Pappalardo sees as not […]
Are you in a job meaningful for you? Are you passionate about what you are doing? Have you settled for less? Or perhaps you are in denial? How to find a meaningful job in 5 steps: Step 1: Explore. You need to know what you love. In order to achieve this, you need to shop around and try career outfits. […]
Using the analogy to computers, Geert Hofstede describes culture as the “software of the mind”. Whereas personality is inherited and learned and specific to individuals, culture is learned and specific to a group or a category of people. Hiring diversity is a matter of providing the appropriate structure for learning and succeed in this global market.
Prevent a high turnover by implementing an on-boarding program. Spend your money wisely as it will equate to savings in the grand scheme of things. Orientation vs On-boarding Orientation is an event; on-boarding is a process. Orientation is a structured event that focuses on the information the new employee needs to know to get started, such as an introduction to […]
