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Technical Interview

If you’re struggling to find candidates with the exact skillsets you’re looking for, effective technical interviews can help. By adding a couple of additional steps to your interview process, you can filter candidates better, save money on training, and find the best matches for your jobs and culture.

Time Tracking Methods

Are you evaluating time tracking methods for your organization? Do you even need to track time for your employees? What’s the best method for your organization and how do you know it will work? Read on to learn more!

Tax Identification Number (TIN)

Human Resources professionals are faced with a multitude of bewildering acronyms and numbers on a daily basis. Ever have an employee ask you what their employee number is? Read on to learn about the different types of identification numbers the U.S. government uses to identify taxpayers.

Temporary Employee

Many workplaces rely on temporary employees for gap coverage or additional labor. For those of us in HR, there are some important considerations when dealing with temporary workers. Read on to learn more.

Training Pay

When employees start a new job, the onboarding process includes training. Do you understand how to go about paying employees while in training? This article dives into training pay and how employees should be paid while in training.

Team Building Activities

Team building has a bad reputation for being extremely “corporate-y” and lame, yet it could be the most important investment you make for your employees. It doesn’t even have to be expensive! Read on to learn more.

Training Management Software

How can you save yourself time, energy and even headaches when managing your training initiatives? A good talent management software can do all three but it's important to know what to look for and how to select the right system for your organization.

Training & Development Manager

Training and career development are essential to your company's success and your employees' satisfaction, and it can be challenging to address these needs as well as all other HR functions. Read on to learn how a training and development manager can help.

Thanksgiving Company Party

Companies are always looking for ways to boost morale. Have you ever thrown a company Thanksgiving party?

Traditional 401k

Saving for retirement is one of the most important things you can do. Retirement accounts can be offered as a benefit through an employer. As an employee, it is an easy way to save for the future.

Talent Acquisition Partner

Hiring the right people is critical to your company’s success. Talent acquisition partners can play a major role in your mission to find the best and the brightest talent for your workforce. In this article, you’ll learn what a talent acquisition partner is, what they do and how to become one.

Time Tracking Software

How can you make sure your employees are staying on track and properly estimate project budgets? Time tracking software lets your employees accurately track their hours and provides you with data for business insights to help improve your team’s efficiency.

Continue reading to learn what employee time tracking software is, the benefits of using time tracking software, essential features and how to choose the right software for your organization.

Turnover Rate

Any good company knows it needs to retain its top talent in order to be successful. Understanding your company’s turnover rate will help you increase retention.

Transferable Skills

When it comes to transferable skills, you may be more set than you think! But how do you know what these skills are? How do you identify them in yourself or your employees? Read on to find the answers to those questions and more as we unpack transferable skills together!

Technical Recruiter

Recruiting can be daunting and difficult for companies these days. It is tough to attract and compete for the best talent. You want to have the right recruiters in place to recruit the best talent for you. One of those recruiters are technical recruiters.

The 4 C’s

Does your onboarding process give new employees everything they need to succeed? Does it make them feel valued, accepted, empowered, safe, and like they belong in your organization? Review the 4 C’s of onboarding to see how you can improve.

TV Recruiting

As the fight for talent looms, you may want to consider an unconventional way to recruit: television (TV) recruitment. Continue reading to learn what TV recruitment is and how it can benefit your organization.

Training Efficiency

You know training will make your business better, but are unsure how to communicate the importance to your boss or leadership. Being able to explain the training efficiency helps you provide both personal stories as well as data to make a convincing case and ensure your program is on the right track. Read on to see how this can help your business.

Team Introductions

Introductions can be overwhelming for both the employee and the employer. What do I say when they ask about my hobby, what if I forget my own name — questions like these will be running through the employee’s head while the employer is thinking, how do I keep this from derailing while still maintaining the fun side? Does anyone even care about this at all? Keep reading to address these pain points and more when it comes to team introductions in the workplace.

Team Culture

In a market where changes are happening every day, culture is your biggest differentiating factor. Read further to unlock the best approach to building a cohesive team culture.

TikTok Recruiting

Get your job posting in front of millions of people with little effort. TikTok gives you and your TA team the power to reach more candidates than any job board.

Timesheets

Timesheets are vital employment records for all non-exempt workers and are required by federal law. The legal burden of accurate pay and recordkeeping sits with employers, so read on to ensure that your company is following the right guidelines with respect to employee timekeeping.

Talent Acquisition

You know that the key to your company’s success is its people. However, your question may be, “How do we find great people?” The answer: talent acquisition.

Training Needs Analysis/Assessment

Training is often one of the biggest investments in the HR department. If the needs analysis is not done well, your credibility will be called into question by both the business leaders and the employees after the training is delivered.

Twitter Recruiting

If you are spending a lot of time posting jobs and not getting great talent applying through job postings on job portals or LinkedIn, maybe it’s time to invest in something different. Try twitter recruiting. It’s free! All you have to invest is time! Below we’ll talk through the pros and cons of recruiting via Twitter and walk through the steps of tweeting your first job post.

Talent Management

This article will show you how to structure your organization's talent management so that it will directly support your overall business plan, make you a valuable business partner and positively affect your organization’s bottom line.

Time to Hire

Time to hire is a key recruiting metric that provides an easy way to measure and improve HR’s impact. Recruiting is one of HR’s most important functions, so how can you be sure that you’re doing a good job? Equally as important, how can you show company leaders that you’re doing a good job? Never fear, time to hire is here!

The Duties Test

Failure to pay overtime to qualified employees risks costly legal consequences. How do you know when and to whom you need to pay overtime? The FLSA Duties Test is a tool you need to be familiar and comfortable using. Let's look at how to use it.

Tuition Reimbursement

Those who understand retention know that turnover is costly. Contrary to old school business, modern employees only stay with a company for an average of 2-5 years. It’s imperative that companies create initiatives to lengthen retention and develop their workforce to meet future needs.

Have you considered tuition reimbursement as a possible solution to this? Take a look and see if tuition reimbursement is right for your company.

Time Tracking

Tracking your employees’ time helps you remain compliant with laws and regulations, and provide insight into how your employees are spending their time on specific tasks.

Continue reading to learn what employee time tracking is, why it’s important and how to start tracking your employees’ time.

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