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Quiet Firing, the Cowards Way of Reducing Your Workforce!

  Whether company executives are scared to have a public layoff in the news (wouldn’t want those shareholders skittish), or too lazy or fearful to let problem employees go, to wanting to reduce employee headcount the cheap way, employers have been utilizing quiet firing for a couple of decades.  While the quiet firing phrase is […]

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Job Search & Career Management Tip

There is never a reason to lie about your qualifications for a position.  Regardless of whether you lie in your resume, at the interview, in background search information provided, or once you are working at the new organization, in the end you could lose the job.  You will always be found out, ultimately, and all

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Habit Stacking, How To Increase Your Productivity and Reduce Procrastination

  HABIT STACKING – the repeated behaviors that reinforce neural pathways.  This method is a great way of establishing patterns or routines over time, and reduce procrastination temptations.  Utilizing it creates more consistency, as you can utilize both old actions already in place and new actions together.  Similar to learning a new piece of music,

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RTO Shouldn’t Be Required for All Workers

This should have been the trend in the first place, instead of one-size fits all RTO. In the article from LinkedIn I commented on, which I include below this article, high performers are cited as the workers who should get work from home options. High performing workers are typically early starters that get ahead of

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Using Social Media to Your Benefit (and to others)

The use of social media, personal apps, games, and email in the workplace has become commonplace.  Instead of working, many employees are spending time on Instagram, TikTok, Twitter, or Facebook feeds, online games, texting, personal emails, rather than working.  The cost to companies is steep in both time lost and worker productivity! Remember, using your

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A Quality LinkedIn Profile Is High Value for both Jobseeker and Recruiters

In a recent study done by LinkedIn, job seekers who developed comprehensive LinkedIn profiles had a 71% higher chance of getting a job interview.  The study also found that 87% of recruiters found LinkedIn valuable in assessing new candidates during the hiring process.  The recruiters described it as an integral part of the talent acquisition

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Companies – Your RTO Should Be Carefully Considered!

This post got quite a bit of play on LinkedIn, so I thought it would appropriate to share it with clients and potential clients on my blog: Companies should carefully consider “why” they feel the need to make every employee return to the office five days a week. This is far more about “controlling people”

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Stop Treating Employees Like Resources, and Start Treating Them As Humans!

  If you treat your employees as if they are a “cost” or “resource” and not as a human, or don’t care about them except as a potential source of revenue, you hamper your company’s ability to be successful. Treat your employees the way you would treat your most valued client and watch your company

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