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Employers
A Note About Employee Handbooks
Are you faced with several different samples of employee handbooks and now would like to know what to do with them? Writing your organization’s employee handbook for the employees working in your organization can be challenging, to say the least. Here are several thoughts to consider when writing and sharing with your employees a new employee handbook.
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Employers
Motivational Quotes
A nice site for inspirational quotations and positive affirmations to promote positive thinking, personal growth, success, and achievement in your career, relationships, and life.
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Career Seekers
What’s Your Weakest Link?
There are three critical links in your job search chain. Consider each of them carefully to determine your weakest link, then work to strengthen that link.
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Career Seekers
Some Time Savers
Learn how to get more done in less time, with less stress, and have more time for the things you want to do in work and business lives.
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Career Seekers
Don’t Get Stumped by Off-the-Wall Job Interview Questions
Picture yourself in this scene: You’re in a job interview . Everything is going better than you imagined it could. You look professional and fabulous. You are totally prepared. You are on a roll. You’re nailing every interview question. You feel wonderful rapport with your interviewer. Suddenly, out of the blue she asks you a question that throws you completely off balance!
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Employers
How to Interview and Hire Top People Each and Every Time
Many employers do a miserable job selecting people, relying on outdated and ineffective interviewing techniques. Find out how you can change the way you interview and start hiring top people today.
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Employers
It Pays to Help New Staff Start Right
New staff want to feel a sense of acceptance and belonging inside the organization. Here are some methods which managers can use to invest carry out well-designed staff orientation programs.
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Career Seekers
FAKTSA: An Easy Acronym for Remembering Key Resume Enhancers
What are the most important things to remember about writing an effective resume? They can be encapsulated in a six-letter acronym, FAKTSA.
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Employers
Compliance Checklist for 2009
Throughout the 2008 year, up to and within 2009, several new employment statues and laws became effective coupled with many interesting court decisions. Many of those new findings and laws require proactive responses by us as employers. With our economy being suppressed, it becomes critical for employers to be the best stewards possible with their employees. Below is a summary list of what I believe employers need to do now to assist them within the 2009 season.
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Employers
Employment Law Guide
This Guide issued by the Department of Labor (DOL) describes the statutes and regulations administered that affect businesses and workers. The Guide is designed mainly for those needing “hands-on” information to develop wage, benefit, safety and health, and nondiscrimination policies for businesses in general industry.
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Employers
Overtime Pay Requirements of the FLSA
This fact sheet from the U.S. Department of Labor gives general information concerning the application of the overtime pay provisions of the FLSA.
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Employers
Beat the Recession by Going Back to Basics
When faced with a recession, we have two available options…buckle with fear or be imaginative, aggressive, and fight back. The clarion call is for common sense, not panic. Here are some practical ways to survive the recession.