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Employee monitoring: to track or not to track?
As anyone who has ever worked in the corporate world knows, it’s easy to clock up a 9-5 day and get absolutely nothing done. Bef...
Cost-per-hire metrics, demystified
Calculating cost per hire involves summing all internal and external recruitment expenses and dividing by the total number of hi...
What defines a good recruiter?
A good recruiter is one who builds strong relationships, thinks ahead, collaborates effectively with hiring managers, keeps an o...
Perfecting your recruiting pitch
Perfecting a recruiting pitch involves understanding your candidate's needs and interests, and conveying what your company can o...
Why parental leave laws aren’t working
If we want to have a workforce in the future we need to have children. The necessity to create tomorrow’s employees means today’...
Strategies for building an inclusive workplace
An inclusive workplace makes a difference for more than half of all employees who currently hide aspects of their identity at wo...
How to identify and address ‘toxic employees’
Toxic employees can be identified by their overconfidence, self-centered attitudes, and lack of cooperation. They often disrespe...
How to foster workplace diversity
Fostering workplace diversity involves creating an environment where all employees feel valued and can thrive. This can be achie...
The world’s most enduring personality test is a meaningless parlor game
If you work for a large organization you’re probably already aware that yours is one of 16 distinct personality types. You may b...
What does Massachusetts’ equal pay law mean for employers?
Will Massachusetts be the first state to close the gender pay gap? On August 1, the state passed the most robust equal pay law t...
How to succeed as a HR leader: forget ‘best practices’
The HR industry has more buzzwordy ‘best practices’ than most. But they’re counter-productive. By definition, accepted or ‘stand...
Creating career paths that put people first
In the old world of work, climbing the corporate ladder was the most popular metaphor for getting ahead. In the new world of wor...