Assessing Your Hiring Needs, Part 1: Do you really need to hire someone?
Has business picked up for you? Is your company experiencing growing pains? Are your employees putting in overtime? All of these may be signs that you need to start hiring again. But with fluctuating workloads and an uncertain economy, determining whether or not you need to add permanent headcount can be a real challenge. On […]
10 Performance Management Tips to Drive Your Bottom Line
Want to create top caliber performance in your organization? Who doesn’t?! Use these 10 tips to get people to stop making excuses and start delivering exceptional results: Stop accepting excuses. Are you too tolerant of excuses? Don’t be. An excuse means the job didn’t get done and accepting excuses allows failure to persist. When you […]
10 Ideas for Better Staffing Results
Great staffing results don’t happen by accident. They occur when smart people (like you) invest in creating the best possible relationship with a quality staffing firm (like Wood Personnel). Don’t leave your staffing success to chance. Use these 10 ideas to achieve better staffing results: Give temporary employees formal job descriptions. Job descriptions should be […]
Time Out! U.S. Workers are Foregoing Vacation Plans, But is This Really in Your Company’s Best Interest?
Work/life balance. It’s one of those nebulous issues with which employers continually wrestle. On the one hand, work needs to be done. On the other hand, the pressure to get that work done can lead to a host of problems which zap employees’ productivity. Financial constraints and demanding work schedules have made work a higher […]
Jobs Outlook for 2011 College Graduates
Recently graduated from college? Here are a few facts about your Class of 2011: The U.S. Department of Education estimates that approximately 1.7 million students graduated with bachelor’s degrees in the 2011 winter/spring graduation season. Females outnumbered males, with the U.S. Department of Education reporting 140 females for every 100 males in the Class of […]
The Value of Creating a Flexible Workplace
Do you offer flexible work options to your employees? Does it really matter? Take a look at what two recent studies showed about the prevalence and importance of workplace flexibility. The first, a recent Survey on Workplace Flexibility from WorldatWork, found that: The vast majority (98 percent) of U.S. employers offer at least one workplace […]
