Talent Management

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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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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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Should You Automate Your Job Search with AI?

In an answer – NO! I am definitely a proponent of AI in many areas, including research, but always caution to trust but verify what it gives you. However, it creates disaster for the job seeker, HR, and the Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS). From having numerous resumes and cover letters now looking eerily similar or

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It's All About Control

It’s All About Control

It was National Employee Appreciation Day last month, but you can’t tell.  While individuals are increasingly seeking a better balance in their work, companies are pushing back.  Despite the fact things changed permanently after March of 2020, many corporations haven’t recognized this reality.  All that wonderful talk about taking care of people has been replaced

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Seven Reasons You Didn't Get Promoted, and What to Do Next

7 REASONS YOU DIDN’T GET PROMOTED + WHAT TO DO NEXT

Thank you to HerMoney Magazine and Rena Philips for another terrific interview. This time I was discussing the reasons why someone might not be promoted, and how to handle it. Below is a portion of the article, with one of the quotes followed by the article link: YOU HAVEN’T TAKEN ENOUGH CREDIT FOR THE GREAT

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Tech War for Talent – Is It Over?

Referencing comment to article on cooling of the war for tech talent, and they “why’s” behind it. Here are my observations as to why, and advice to keep it from happening to other companies, tech or otherwise: https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/is-the-tech-war-for-talent-over-4827217/ So many startups were like many large companies prior to the great recession that started in 2006.

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