It’s the holiday season, so everyone wants a party to celebrate their employees. Plus, everyone feels an obligation–we have to have a party! But December is full. In addition to whatever year-end processes you have (especially if your fiscal year operates on a calendar year), your employees are busy with their personal
What if you could offset some of the cost of hiring without impacting your applicant experience or burdening your hiring managers? It sounds like a dream, but it can be done with a properly managed process around the Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC). What’s WOTC? The Work Opportunity
Good office parties are great. Bad ones? Well, they are more fun to read about. Here are some holiday party nightmares from Inc.com readers. Make sure to share your story in the comments: The one with the live fish “We no longer have Christmas white elephants because, well, about
On Saturday night, an attacker at Colorado Spring’s Club Q killed five people and injured 17. While we all hope and pray that no violent person shows up at our businesses or businesses we patronize, if it can happen there, it can happen wherever you are. This wasn’t a
New York City’s new law requiring job postings to have salary ranges went into effect earlier this month, and the response was stunning. Stunningly awful in many cases. CitiGroup, for instance, posted a job with a salary range of $0 – $2,000,000. This is a ridiculous case of a company
‘Worst onboarding experiences’ sounds like a great topic – one that would have lots of fabulous stories. So I asked my readers, expecting the responses to flood in. They didn’t. I got: “I started a new job, and IT hadn’t set up my computer yet,” and “the new
Like everyone else, I’ve been watching the Twitter meltdown while munching popcorn and wondering what amazing thing will happen next. As an HR person, I know that many people in big corporations could disappear without affecting the company’s product–including many HR positions. It is abundantly clear that Twitter had a
Four cannibals apply for a job in a big corporation… “Well“, says the boss, „if I hire you guys, you have to promise to not eat any of our staff.“ The cannibals promise that they will not eat anyone and get hired. Everything is going well for a
I own a retail business, and sometimes customers can be rude and inappropriate, but I’m worried about a recession, so the customer is always right. I can’t afford bad ratings on Yelp or whatever. But my HR manager says I can be held liable for what customers do.
Turnover costs a fortune. Given that employees want growth, first place companies often look to fill positions is within their own workforces. Yet matching internal candidates with positions is still a struggle. With that in mind, LinkedIn is adding new modules to help recruiters find people who are already
