Ahmed's Universe

JANUARY 10, 2013

'PARIS As an HR leader it is my responsibility to make sure my company has the best tools experience can provide and budget can buy. Here are therefore my New Year''s 10 resolutions as pertaining to technology without which there cannot be any HR. 1. I will make a thorough inventory of my HR systems: What works, what doesn''t what needs to be enhanced, what needs to be discarded. 2.

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Achievers

JANUARY 30, 2013

Welcome to Employee Success! At A chievers we’re changing the way the world works, so we thought we’d change the way our blog works, too. So what is Employee Success? In the broad sense, Employee Success is the product of performance and engagement. It’s the Promised Land, the perfect win-win scenario: your employees love their jobs, and their hard work helps your business succeed.

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Talent Culture

JANUARY 21, 2013

I’m thrilled to announce the release of my new book, Happy About My Job Search: How to Conduct an Effective Job Search for a More Successful Career. This book offers a candid perspective of what a search is and isn’t and practical hints for building better resumes and cover letters, networking strategically, interviewing effectively, and negotiating a more competitive compensation package.

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Insperity

JANUARY 17, 2013

Corporate credit cards are great, right? They let you and your employees travel, entertain and pay for company expenses without the need for petty cash or for any of you to pay out of your own pockets. In addition, you get an itemized statement every month that you can attach to your expense reports to account for the money that’s been spent. But as convenient as they are, credit cards also have their drawbacks.

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Performance reviews are a proactive way to engage with your employees, provide clear communication about expectations, and acknowledge them for their hard work. But getting the right framework and creating consistency across your organization can be tricky. We put together this checklist to help you evaluate your current performance review process and equip managers with the right tools to perform individual assessments.

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Business Management Daily

JANUARY 11, 2013

Minnesota employers are stuck in the middle of the battle between state and federal law. The tension may create confusion for employers trying to legally enforce their policies, including drug-free workplace policies. The post How to cope with dope: Marijuana & the Minnesota workplace appeared first on Business Management Daily.

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Insperity

JANUARY 22, 2013

Real business success doesn’t come from merely taking risks. It comes from eliminating it. And that’s exactly what business insurance does. Yet, when it comes to selecting coverage, many business leaders don’t take the time to truly understand their options. “Nearly every conceivable risk a business might face is covered by a type of business insurance,” says Darrell McGee, program manager at Insperity Insurance Services.

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Insperity

JANUARY 10, 2013

For many of us, org charts are seen as cold, flat representations of a company’s hierarchy. Names, titles and reporting relationships – that’s all they’re good for. Static, mildly informative org charts can create distance between you and your employees. Your people are the pulse of your business, and keeping up with the beat is crucial. Effective org charting software not only gives insight into how your workforce is performing, it can also provide a closer understanding of your employees thems

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Talent Culture

JANUARY 28, 2013

I recently walked a client through a company’s applicant tracking system and it was an unbelievably painful experience. Companies have made the barriers to entry so difficult that it is amazing that they receive the thousands of applications that they do. It is not unusual for the upload process for a single job to take more than an hour and the amount of redundancy between the ATS screens and the resume content is astounding.

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Talent Culture

JANUARY 30, 2013

In a recent article published in The New York Times about the importance of maintaining an online identity as a career management and job search strategy, I talked about the value of tools such as LinkedIn for building a digital footprint. Many of my clients are huge fans of LinkedIn and with good reason…the platform allows them to build a professional identity and engage with like-minded colleagues.

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Are you looking for ways to enhance your employee value proposition? Gallagher Better Works SM Insights has got you covered! Dive into the latest magazine issue and discover how flexibility, equity, recognition and strategically applied resources can improve your total rewards package. Download the PDF to learn more about: Building retirement benefits for a global and mobile workforce Promoting employee and organizational growth through succession planning Empowering women in leadership through

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Insperity

JANUARY 1, 2013

Embezzlers do much more to your business than slowly eat away your profits. They can destroy your company. The median loss to businesses with fewer than 100 employees is $190,000 per scheme, according to the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners. “When your business relies on a single point of failure, a single bookkeeper, you open the door to a host of problems, from human error to human deceit,” says Stephen King, president of GrowthForce, a provider of outsourced bookkeeping and controller

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