Effective Employee Retention Plans Begin at the Beginning
When Retention Goes Bad Turnover sucks. Well, most turnover. Many of us have that one employee we wish would leave. But more generally, when we lose valuable employees, we suffer: The financial costs of replacing the loss of talent – industry experts place the cost of turnover at 50-150% the salary of the person who […]
HR Solutions for Business Problems
What HR Solutions Are Right for Me? The first step to identifying the most effective and appropriate HR solutions for your organization is to carefully articulate and define the HR problems you are currently facing. Common areas HR managers face issues across all industries include (but are not limited to): Retention Recruitment Productivity Job Satisfaction […]
Common Ground on Organizational Culture: How the Right Cultural Assessment Tool Can Help Your Company Thrive
When people throw out the terms “workplace culture” or “organizational culture,” eyes often glaze over. Why? Because although everyone agrees that culture is critically important, nobody agrees on what precisely culture means. Is a workplace culture described by how people dress? What time do people come in each day? Does it refer to a company’s […]
What Really is a Pre-Hire Assessment?
You’ve probably had some experience with a pre-hire assessment. Maybe you applied for a job and rated yourself on how much you agree with a variety of statements (“I like dogs” – strongly agree, or, “I’m the life of the party” – maybe if it’s a LAN party?). Maybe you’re an HR manager hoping to […]
Getting Started on Predictive Hiring To Transform Your Workforce
You have probably been reading about topics like predictive hiring, predictive analytics, Big Data, and artificial intelligence applied to employee selection. You might be wondering whether any of this applies to your organization. You may be asking questions like: Do I have enough data for Big Data? If I’m implementing predictive hiring, what should I […]
Staff Attrition vs. Staff Turnover: What’s the Difference?
Losing employees through staff attrition and turnover is costly – it’s plain and simple. Between costs associated with separation, loss of productivity, recruitment, interviewing, training, and onboarding, the loss of a single employee is estimated to cost businesses 50% of that individual’s annual salary. Replacement costs can be lower for entry-level roles while replacement costs […]
Get Ahead of 2018’s Workforce Trends with Fit
You may have heard of the terms burnout and engagement. In fact, handling burnout, or the extent to which an employee feels exhausted, cynical, and incompetent due to their job, is one of Forbes’ 2018 Workplace Trends[1]. Human Resource leaders speculate that burnout leads to half of all yearly turnover. Engagement, on the other hand, […]
The Science behind jobZology®
jobZology is built on a principle supported by decades of research – the better the fit between a person and a work environment, the better the outcomes for both parties. Person-environment fit (P-E fit) theories suggest that employees who are in roles that fit well with their psychological make-up tend to be satisfied, want to […]
Good Hiring and the Good Life: The Side Benefits of Hiring Well
First, what do you think is the primary job of human resources? A) Make sure no laws or rules are broken with respect to managing the workforce. B) Make sure the lights are out when you leave the building. C) Make sure positions are filled, training is delivered, people are paid, and “people problems” are […]
Understanding “Culture Fit” – How to Improve Fit-Based Hiring Practices
A recent article from the Association for Talent Development dives into the concept of hiring for fit, discussing how hiring to a corporate culture relates to equal employment opportunity and workplace diversity. The author raises an interesting point – “Could building a culture based on ‘fit’ keep out those who are different in some way?” If […]
