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5 Winning Ways to Successful Key Account Management
Key Account Management (KAM) was rooted in the concept of soft-selling and is widely recognized in various fields such as banking, health and industrial domains as mutually beneficial to both…
The Top 10 Reasons Why Social Media Background Checks Are a Dumb Idea
The latest addition to the modern recruiting process, social media background checks, may be the dumbest element. Unlike most background checks, they don’t verify positive job-related information
5 Questions Before Filing a Lawsuit
Before you decide you need to sue someone, answer these questions. Bad things happen to good people all the time
How can your technical hires be more diverse?
It’s no secret that the IT industry has a talent shortage, but just how short the shortage, and how lacking in diversity the sourcing and staffing efforts have been, is…
After-Hours Resignation Didn’t Start Clock for Final Pay
When an employee resigns without notice, California law requires the employer to pay all wages due to that worker within 72 hours. So when does the clock start ticking if…
2017 Recruiting Data Shows Fewer Job Applicants, More Hires
More employment offers were made and more candidates hired in 2017 than in the previous year, while fewer people applied for open positions, according to year-over-year data from Jobvite
When Employees Leave: Make Sure Trade Secrets Are Protected
Technology has made it easier for departing employees to take confidential business information to a competitor—perhaps they moved customer contact information to their smartphone, e-mailed marketing plans to their personal…
Who Wants to Be a 401(k) Millionaire?
A record number of employees have become 401(k) millionaires, up 41 percent from a year earlier according to a big 401(k) administrator’s client data. While retiring as a millionaire is…
Austin Paid-Sick-Leave Ordinance Temporarily Suspended
The Society for Human Resource Management's challenge of the paid-sick-leave law in Austin, Texas, resulted in the ordinance being put on hold while the Texas state appeals court reviews the…
Your Execs Think More of HR Than Does Everyone Else
Admit it: You care what people think about you. While we haven’t figured out what your neighbors or friends are thinking, we can tell you what people think about HR