7 Best practices to get your people excited about meetings
You, as a good leader, are always creating a vision for your business (or department) and take pride in sharing that vision with your people. On a daily basis you ensure that the right tools are in place and that information is consistently communicated – allowing your people to do their jobs as efficiently and effectively as possible.
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HR Glossary: Qualifications
In HR management, qualifications are understood to be the professional expertise and social skills of an employee in relation to the job performed and area of work.
An employee's professional skills and qualifications include:
- Education and training
- Specialised knowledge (e.g. mathematical or language skills)
- Working techniques and methodology skills
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HR Glossary: Personnel Leasing
It is not just company cars that can be leased - staff can be as well, as required. As eloquent as it may sound, in principle it means nothing more than deploying temporary staff - or 'temping'.
By making use of temporary staff companies are able to react quickly and flexibly, particularly to seasonal variations. Instead of employing new staff on temporary or permanent contracts, a company can 'borrow' staff from a temping
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KPIs Part 1: Time is money
Statistics, analysis, key performance indicators, … Terms that make some recruiters break out in a hot sweat. That is why HR professionals are happy to ignore collecting various KPIs in recruitment. But, with the ever increasing 'war for talent', management accounting in HR is not only becoming increasingly important - it is now almost essential. Good enough reason for a new series in our blog. To kick off, the most important
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Don’t let your best employees walk out the door – try stay interviews
Don’t let the top talent in your organisation leave for another opportunity. Here’s why stay interviews are worth implementing.
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HR Glossary: Networker
The expression 'networker' is used colloquially at work to describe people who actively build, maintain and expand a network of contacts, with the aim of using these relationships for the benefit of their own career. Networking enables people to share information and support each other, independently of their own particular jobs and responsibilities.
It may involve a personal network of friends, colleagues, business
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Should HR start to think more like marketers?
It’s evident that HR departments are starting to think more and more like marketers. How effective is this morphing of department capabilities? And if they are practicing marketing techniques, should recruitment report into the marketing department? These are questions that are on the lips of many bloggers and commentators from both the marketing and HR specialisms. So we ask how can HR, recruitment and marketing blend to
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Why cloud computing can increase recruiter productivity
Cloud computing is currently one of the biggest trends worldwide, with the industry expecting a growth of 15 percent by 2018. In addition to private users making greater use of cloud services like Dropbox, an ever increasing number of companies are also taking advantage of the new technology. It allows not only flexible working, but can also significantly increase employee productivity in the long term.
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6 things about HR data your boss wants to know
Salaries and wages are the single most important cost factor in almost every company, accounting for up to 50 percent of total costs. Recruitment and HR costs are in addition. The HR department is therefore a "valuable" department in the truest sense of the word: hats off to anyone who can find scope for improvement and potential cost savings here. Time to make yourself familiar with the key performance indicators (KPIs).
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Employer brand: more attractive through environmental awareness
For today's generation, protection of the environment and sustainability are part of life's philosophy. This awareness cannot simply be discarded at work: the same level of commitment is now expected of the employer. Companies can only prove their accountability and attract similarly minded new talent on the basis of credible CSR management.
The issue of 'Corporate Social Responsibility' (CSR) in Europe has come of
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