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Improving Employee Retention Before and After Downsizing
by: Amy Nutt
In a down economy organizations sometimes forget that retaining employees is an important issue. When organizations go through the difficult process of downsizing it’s natural to overlook the need to develop retention programs meant to keep the remaining people happy and productive.
Shouldn’t the employees who survived a downsizing be thankful their jobs were [...]
POEA Accredited Agencies – The Licensing Process For Recruitment Agencies in the Philippines
The Philippine Overseas Employment Agency or POEA is the government arm in the Philippines that accredits would be private overseas employment agencies.
The POEA is tasked with weeding out the many “phony” recruitment agencies” that take advantage of Filipinos seeking greener pastures abroad. Illegal recruitment is rife in places where there is an outflow of migrant [...]
VIDEO: How to Recruit with YouTube
I was invited to speak at the Technology Association of GA (and what a blast it was)! I met a lot of new people, shook hands with old friends and (somehow) managed to keep everyone awake discussing how I used YouTube as a Recruiting tool back in the days of when I was a Technical [...]
PODCAST – Never Work for Free
Never Work For Free
In episode #125, Jim Stroud and Karen Mattonen debate the shady (?) practice of companies who solicit free consultation from jobseekers too eager to please. How far should a jobseeker go to please a potential employer before saying “enough is enough?” How much longer will companies ask interviewees for solutions to [...]
7 Human Resource Strategies to Use in a Recession
By now most economists and armchair experts agree we’re in a recession.
What both the educated and lay pundits find more difficult to agree upon are the answers to troubling questions like “How deep will the recession be?” and “How long will it last?”
Estimates for recovery vary wildly from the blackly dismal to the rosily optimistic. [...]
