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November 2014

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November 24, 2014

Counteroffers: Are They Benefit or Detriment?

By: Taunee Besson Have you ever been approached by your current company with a counteroffer to keep you from jumping ship? What did you do? Take the money and be glad to get it? Wonder why you had to "leave" to generate some financial appreciation? Counteroffers are mixed blessings. While…
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November 21, 2014

Middle Managers and Hermit Crabs

By: Sean Nealon Researchers find ideas from middle managers are less likely to be passed to company leaders in organizations with more hierarchy. Ideas from mid-level managers that can benefit an organization are less likely to be passed up to superiors as hierarchy in the organization increases, according to a…
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November 20, 2014

Managing Country Risk

By: Jim DeLoach The turmoil in the Middle East has demonstrated that once governments undertake confiscatory or discriminatory actions, mobs take to the streets or civil war breaks out, crisis management and damage control options available to a company are limited. Country risk – or sovereign or political risk, as it is…
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November 19, 2014

The Importance of Continued Learning

It's easy to get comfortable in our jobs and our lives.  To become stagnant.  But there's danger there; stop moving forward and you've stopped learning.  Not only is continued learning critical to maintaining a competitive edge and facilitating ongoing success, but study after study has shown that continuing to learn…
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November 18, 2014

Top 5 Traits of High-Performing Professionals

By: Maurice Gilbert When interviewing new hires, many hiring authorities mistakenly only focus on the technical proficiencies of the candidate.  Big mistake.  Our most sophisticated clients focus on the traits listed below and have been rewarded with higher recruiting ratios, higher retention rates and the development of more leaders.  The…
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November 17, 2014

Using References to Help You Land a Job

By: Taunee Besson What comes to mind when you think about references? •  Do you envision official-looking letters of recommendation to send with your resume or pull from your briefcase at an interview? •  Do you dread a knife-in-the-back from your current manager, who automatically denigrates anyone whose opinions, methods…
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November 14, 2014

3 Underutilized Management Practices

by: K. Palmer Hartl Working to Outputs, Not Inputs How many managers work to outputs rather than to inputs?  Most work to inputs, and it sends the wrong message to the employee and likely results in less initiative and creativity in the workplace.  The other day, a client sent me…
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November 13, 2014

20 Great Ideas for Work Mentoring Activities

The benefits of mentoring relationships are many.  If you're already gotten connected with a mentee, wonderful!  That was the easy part.  It's knowing where to go from there that's the real challenge.  Fortunately, there are more ways to go about imparting your hard-won wisdom than scheduling a monthly Q&A session…
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November 12, 2014

Does “Ban the Box” Trend Doom Criminal Background Checks?

By: David B. Weisenfeld of XpertHR More than 90 percent of employers use background checks to screen job applicants at some point in the hiring process. But a new trend is placing limits on when many employers can seek criminal history information. Banning the Box The trend is called “ban…
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November 11, 2014

Top 5 Questions Professionals Will Ask Hiring Authorities in the Interview

By: Maurice Gilbert Top professionals like the ones we represent to our clients (Compliance Officers) are in high demand and they know it.  They ask very pointed questions of hiring authorities as part of their due diligence; they are interviewing you while you are simultaneously evaluating them.  They have been…
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