December, 2012

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What Does Your Boss’ Desk Say About His Work Style?

Talent Culture

Understanding how co-workers and bosses give and receive information is important, and knowing their preferences can help improve communications and general job satisfaction. Savvy professionals are always looking for clues to a person’s preferred style of communication. Most social psychologists recognize that there are four basic temperaments or communications styles.

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How to Hire Candidates You Can’t Afford

Insperity

You’ve found your next superstar employees. There’s only one problem: their salary expectations are way out of your budget. Should you give up on them? Not yet. While compensation is important, it isn’t the only way to win over top-notch candidates. Sometimes a little extra charm and a few extra perks can convince candidates that your business is the best place to work, even if it pays less than what they were hoping for.

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Score tax points for a mortgage

Business Management Daily

Are you or someone else in your family buying a home? Mortgage interest rates are still favorable by historical standards, but you might decide to pay one or more “points” to a lending institution to get a better rate. The post Score tax points for a mortgage appeared first on Business Management Daily.

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An HR Leaders Guide: 7 Questions To Ask When Developing Your Cancer Strategy

As HR and Benefits leaders are in the midst of evaluating cancer care solutions and designing their requirements for vendors, it’s key to know what questions to ask to ensure the development of a truly comprehensive strategy: from prevention to diagnosis to treatment to survivorship. Getting to the right answers starts with asking the right questions: How can better access improve engagement?

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Going Global: HR Hub, HR System of Record or Talent Profile? - That is the Question

Ahmed's Universe

'All the global HR data that''s fit to capture PARIS This is the latest in my "Going Global" series of posts. In " Glocalization or the Five Pillars of a Localized Software " I discussed what it meant to have a "glocal" HR project. In "A Five-tier Approach to a Multi-Country Payroll Project " I touched on the always sensitive issue of payroll for an international company.

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Tackle Turnover With Better Recruiting and Performance Review Processes (Part 2)

Insperity

Now that you’ve brought your ideal employees into your organization, how do you keep them there and ensure they’ll be a continued part of your business’s success? Properly administered employee appraisals can help you guide and retain the talent you worked so hard to recruit. “Just as you would not purchase a large piece of equipment without planning for maintenance, you should not hire an employee without a performance management plan in place,” says Scott Fitch, division president at Insperity

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Tackle Turnover With Better Recruiting and Performance Review Processes (Part 1)

Insperity

A company’s most valuable asset is its employees. And in tough economic times, employee recruiting and retention become even more vital to improving business results. “Even just a few adjustments to your hiring and performance management processes can yield great results in employee morale and retention,” says Scott Fitch, division president at Insperity Performance and Organizational Management.

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How the Top Tech Companies Compare for Salary, Benefits, Job Satisfaction and More

Talent Culture

Payscale recently released a survey of the top tech companies comparing leaders including Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Google and others on salary, perks, job satisfaction and much more. Here are a few interesting findings: Most vacation time: Facebook (3.6 weeks). Highest median starting salary: Nvidia Corp ($99, 400). Most common schools hired from: Stanford, MIT, Carnegie Mellon, Rice University, University of Washington, Santa Clara University, University of Texas.

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1992-2012: My 20-year Affair with Spain

Ahmed's Universe

'From the blogger''s collection, a painting of the Alhambra''s Courtyard of the Lions in Granada. When Boabdil, the last Arab ruler in Spain, was expelled from Granada he cast a last glance at his palace and shed a tear. To which his mother said, "Weep like a woman over what you couldn''t defend like a man." MADRID Twenty Christmases ago, almost to the day, I bade farewell to four years in the United States, boarded a Spain-bound flight which delivered me to a new life in this town.

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6 Steps to a Better Compensation Strategy

Compensation is one of your biggest expenses as a business, but it is also your biggest investment in your people and your culture. A great compensation strategy can be an incredible asset that supports your business goals and lays a foundation of trust between your company and your employees. Whether you already have a compensation strategy in place or you’re building one from scratch, this guide will help you level up your approach through these 6 steps: 1.

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Is Attending College a Mandatory Career Management Strategy?

Talent Culture

As a high school junior, my son is starting to do research on college programs that are in sync with what he would like to study, computer animation. Even though computer and 3D animation are relatively new fields, there are some select colleges that offer degree programs in the field. But almost all the programs seem to assume that the person entering the program has an interest in animation but little hands on technical computer animation experience.