10 Tips for Creating Your Performance Self-Review

10 Tips for Creating Your Performance Self-Review

Does your employer require you to write a review of your own job performance? Employee self-reviews are increasingly popular these days. But how can you honestly assess yourself in a way that's likely to influence your boss? Here are 10 key dos and don'ts. Don't be modest. Don't be shy about letting your boss know where you shone during

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Turn Your Staff into an Unstoppable Recruiting Force

Turn Your Staff into an Unstoppable Recruiting Force

When it’s time to start hiring, the people who really know your company and industry – your employees – are the best source of candidate recommendations. But participation in traditional employee referral programs is extremely low, even if you offer incentives for successful hiring recommendations. Here’s how to turn your staff into an effective recruiting team. 1. Change

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Once Upon a Time

Once Upon a Time

When you’re trying to grab the attention of Senior Management, remember this; they like a good story, especially one with pictures. If your story is intended to address the company’s single largest expense – employee pay programs – the pictures will be charts & graphs that illustrate the points being made. Pictures (charts and graphs) capture attention and

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20 Ways to Kill Your Job Application!

20 Ways to Kill Your Job Application!

We spend a great deal of time talking to recruiters, employers and human resource staff every week. I recently sent an email asking some of them what they would list as their top 3 peeves when it came to receivingresumes and short-listing candidates. You should have seen my inbox fill up with responses! Many were repeated, so I thought

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5 ways to sell yourself effectively

5 ways to sell yourself effectively

Marketing yourself to others is not quite as easy as it might first sound. You’re good at what you do so others will surely be able to pick up on this, right? Wrong. Perhaps once it was that simple to get recognition for your achievements, but times have changed. There are now more young people out of work

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