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Stellar Internship Program
Starting an Internship Program. Internships can be a great way for companies to gain administrative assistance, a fresh perspective and most of all – a great way to build and groom a pipeline of future talent. Interns are often eager to soak up whatever worldly business experience and knowledge you’re willing to give them and…
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How To Avoid EEOC Complaints By Preventing Workplace Discrimination
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, or EEOC, is an agency that works under the federal government to implement federal laws associated with discrimination against employees or job applicants in the U.S. It was created by the Civil Rights Act in 1964 and offers a level of protection to employees who think they have been discriminated…
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5 Reasons Why Job Descriptions Are Important
Here’s How To Create One Job descriptions have been around since the advent of jobs. However, the importance of job descriptions from a big picture concept is still unclear. Most often, HR professionals and recruiters put off writing or updating job descriptions because they think other tasks are more vital. Nonetheless, a good job description…
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Best Practices for Employee Onboarding
We understand! Hiring new employees for your organization can be a long and tedious task. The process isn’t just time-consuming, but it poses challenges and requires investment. Therefore, it is essential you retain the employees you onboard. To achieve this, consider your employee onboarding process. After all, this is the first real taste a new…
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5 Steps to Create an HR Strategy
Creating a strategy around your most valuable asset – your people – and aligning it with your business goals is crucial to business success. However, it does take a lot of planning, monitoring, evaluating, and adjusting along the way. Having a strong HR strategy will set you up for employment success and best of all,…
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Trouble at the Office? Perhaps It’s Time You Involve HR
Typically, employers expect managers to resolve some employee issues on their own and to report others to human resources. As a manager, do you know which is which? For instance, you might know that you should report any complaints of unlawful discrimination, retaliation, or harassment, to HR, even if: The employee pleads with the manager…
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5 Ways to attain work-life balance when working from home
Before the coronavirus pandemic hit the world, only about 3.6 percent of all employees in the United States worked from home for 20 or more hours a week. However, the onset of COVID-19 pushed millions more to quickly transition to working remotely. By the third quarter of 2020, more than half of all American workers…
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Things to Consider Before Mandating the COVID Vaccine for Employees
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, employers focused on the safety of all who visited their workplace. Whether for employees, customers, vendors, or other business partners, employers battled safety issues with socially distanced spaces, personal protective equipment (PPE), health screening tools, hand sanitizer, or wash stations. Now, the COVID vaccine is available to essential workers and will…
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Effective Communication
Guide meaningful and impactful conversations despite social distancing It’s almost been a full year since the COVID-19 pandemic considerably changed our personal and professional lives. We witnessed the impact in many fundamental things about the way we operate as businesses and humans, including how we communicate. The pandemic may have put masks on our faces…
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Encouraging Employees to Utilize Paid Time Off During a Pandemic
Many employees found themselves with unused vacation days at the end of 2020. Due to the pandemic, vacations were cancelled and shelter in place made any other options limited. It doesn’t appear the pandemic is disappearing immediately in 2021, so how can you help your employees utilize their paid time off? Whether your employees are…
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