6 Ways To Be A Good Leader
6 Ways To Be A Good Leader (via A Hire Calling)
The following is a guest post by Erin Steiner. Being a good leader involves more than simply knowing how to boss people around. If you want to be a good leader and maintain a good daily reputation, you have to know how to motivate your team. Here are…
9 Rules For Managing Conflict At Work [INFOGRAPHIC]
9 Rules For Managing Conflict At Work [INFOGRAPHIC] (via A Hire Calling)
Workplace conflict is inevitable. In fact, 85 percent of employees have to deal with conflict to some degree on a regular basis. In the United States, employees spend nearly three hours per week dealing with conflict. Knowing how to handle workplace…
Ten Ways to Kill an Otherwise Promising Job Search
It takes time to mount an effective job search, but it only takes a moment to kill one.
Here are ten things that will kill an otherwise promising job search:
1. Bemoaning a long, demanding job search
Even if you have been on the market for a long time, find any way to make your efforts seem positive, as though you took the time off by choice. Make it appear as if you have enjoyed your time networking with various contacts.
2. Getting impatient with the process
Understand that the hiring decisions can drag on for weeks, if not months. Pestering your contacts frequently, by either phone or email, will not speed up the process and only hurt your chances.
Five Lies My HR Department Told Me, and The Truth Behind Them
They may not be honest-to-goodness lies, but they do represent common misunderstandings in the workplace.
Has your HR department been lying to you? Or, if you are an HR pro, have you told any of these falsehoods?
Now, before anyone goes crazy over the title, these “lies” that Human Resources departments tell are not conscious ones – nor even particularly malicious — but often based on misinformation common to many workplaces.
(Well, perhaps except the first)
Technology and changing workplace rules make the employee-employer relationship — as well as the rules that govern them — even more complex. But there is no excuse for an HR department not knowing the right way to approach these collective workplace issues.
Five Lies My HR Department Told Me, and the Truth Behind Them: