Business Articles

Your Number One Asset
People make companies successful; companies do not make people successful. The people within a company can take bad ideas and fix them and they can take great ideas and expand them.

Understanding your Corporate DNA
Understanding your organization’s characteristics and chemistry is as important as strategic planning or knowing your marketplace. As Vince Lombardi said, “Business is a very complex machine, all of whose components are people, and as in a football team, it is vital that people mesh and gear smoothly.”

Add Strength To Your Organization
How fast can an organization improve itself? The only answer is “one person at a time.”

Hiring Without Regrets
Your candidate may indeed be a superstar, but the money and time your organization is about to invest in him require that you find out more about the person than what his resume tells you—and what he tells you during an interview. You can approach hiring acquisitions in two ways.

Add Strength To Your Organization
Companies seeking superstar employees need to perform their due diligence before initiating the hiring process. Most business leaders assume that the superstar they need must come from outside the company rather than from within. This is not always the case. Following these five steps will ensure that you identify and place superstars appropriately in order to maximize their potential and productivity.

Trends for Hiring and Upgrading in 2010
HRmarketer’s latest edition to their “Trends in HR Marketing” report reveals an optimistic outlook for 2010 from HR departments nationwide. The report reveals information about trends and best practices for human resources, and has a focus on the typical human resource buyer and their financial outlook in 2010. Directly from the report, some of the key trends include:

Project Upgrade 2010
Financially healthy organizations interested in upgrading their talent are finding themselves in “prime time” during the first quarter of 2010. Across the globe, employers are cautiously optimistic about hiring. This optimism coincides with the entrance of top performers into job market, many of whom are victims of the economic downturn that began in 2008. Some are unemployed but very employable. Others are working while seeking new positions that will allow them to learn and grow.