How to Raise Your Employee’s Morale
Any intelligent employer knows that when morale is high, profits are even higher. When employees are happy, the whole company – all the cogs and wheels, run smoothly. It is so easy to be caught up in the day-to-day business of doing business, that an employer or office manager simply does not have the time to spend on soothing employee’s spirits…
How Positive Employee Relations Directly Affect Business
Having employees is similar to having a family. There is a lot of time spent together, plenty of personalities, and everyone has a job to do. A well-run business is like a well-run family – both have an impact on the success and the outcome…
Have you ever noticed an individual who just simply commands attention or, better yet, one who can persuade anyone to do what he or she may ask? Some individuals are just born natural leaders while others struggle seriously in this department…
Building a Positive Employer-Employee Relationship
If you are an employer, chances are that you are aware that employer-employee relationships are essential for a well-run business. Although you may have this awareness, it may just stop there. Having an awareness is wonderful, but having a policy and procedure in place to continue to build upon that awareness is necessary…
Ensure Everyone is Engaged & Pulling Their Weight…
As an office manager or business owner, you are undoubtedly busy. There are the every day tasks of managing an office or overseeing a business and then there are the unexpected surprises. Overdue deadlines, inventory issues, production problems are all an additional part of your everyday office life. Keeping up with whether or not employees are performing up to par is whole other category…
The Power of Positive Employee Recognition
Have you ever heard the old adage about catching more flies with honey than you can with vinegar? Well, not to compare employees with an insect, but you get the bigger picture. More often than not, it is so easy to tell an employee what needs to be corrected and what they are not doing properly than to commend him or her for a job well done.
Recruitment is when employers actively seek people to undertake a specific job. Recruiting is undertaken in a number of ways. Some employers will advertise jobs in national and local newspapers, others will use the services of a recruitment agency and still others will attend business fairs while actively looking to recruit people for a specific role.
The Pluses and Minuses of Internal Recruitment
Internal recruitment is the often used practice of selecting among existing employees to fill a vacancy.
Sometimes the vacancy is advertised throughout a business, usually on its weekly or monthly internal newsletter or intranet. On occasion the practice is invoked because someone in the company is being made redundant in their current position and sometimes it is a way of promoting a certain employee sideways rather than up in the organisation.
What Can You Expect From a Recruitment Agency?
If you are new to the idea of using a recruitment agency then you might not know what to expect from one. Simply put a recruitment agency has two sets of loyalties, first of all they promise to supply prospective employers with suitable staff, secondly they undertake to find work for the people who sign on to their books.
What is the Role of a Recruitment Consultant?
People’s experience of recruitment agencies may vary widely. Some will keep in touch and routinely inform you what positions they have found on your behalf and how the process is developing, on the other hand there are agencies who ask prospective employees to send in CV’s and fill out other forms but then give no feedback.