Employees are the lifeblood of any company, and employee recruitment and retention is a perennial priority – and challenge – for employers nationwide. The process can be costly, however. According to Glassdoor.com, U.S. companies spend an average of $4,000 and 52 days to fill an open position. That squares with a finding from Randstad Sourceright’s 2016[…]
How does outsourcing recruitment/new hire support help employers? Recruitment is becoming both much more sophisticated and much more difficult. According to the Society for Human Resource Management,algorithmic recruiting is taking off – that is, combining Big Data, analytics, and artificial intelligence to identify, review, and select job candidates. But that kind of recruiting requires specific expertise[…]
According to CareerBuilder’s 2016 survey on social media recruitment, the use of social media to find and screen candidates is on the rise. Nearly two-thirds (60%) of employers use social networking sites to research job candidates (it was just 22% in 2008) and nearly as many (59%) use search engines to research candidates as well. On the[…]
The 2017 U.S. Workplace Bullying Survey from the Workplace Bullying Institute (WBI) reveals that a fifth (19%) of American workers are bullied, and another 19% witness it. Perhaps even worse is the fact that employer and coworker reactions can compound the situation: 71% of U.S. employers and 60% of coworkers react to the bullying in ways[…]
HR isn’t really necessary, is it, when you only have a handful of employees? That’s a question that many startups and newly formed small businesses ask themselves. They have limited resources: every bit of capital needs to go to their revenue-generating product or service; and with only a small team of employees, time is always[…]
The intersection of different employment laws can create confusion for employers. In fact, sometimes one law can potentially trigger another. Consider the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and the American with Disabilities Act (ADA), both of which impact how covered employers offer leave time to workers. Specifically, both laws regulate and protect the ability of[…]
We’ve previously written how employee appreciation is crucial to employee engagement, and recognition programs are one of the most common ways employers try to engage their people. But how do you make sure your employee appreciation efforts actually make employees feel appreciated? Genuinely care about your people. It helps if your appreciation program is rooted[…]
Professional employer organizations can be a wonderful way for businesses large and small to handle and strengthen their human resources capabilities, but many organizations new to the industry don’t know what to expect from their PEO partners. As one of the nation’s leading PEOs, CoAdvantage is no stranger to working with businesses who have fallen[…]
Previously, we wrote about the growth stages of a small business, illustrating how the priorities and challenges facing an organization shift as it grows and matures. Something else that changes along the way: how much money or resources to devote to various business segments, like HR. The answer to that question is different for every company,[…]
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