HR

Summer Jobs: 3 Tips For Hiring The Best Workers

As the weather heats up, it’s time to start thinking about finding the right people for your company’s summer jobs. Summer workers are a good way to assist your regular employees at a time when more temporary labor is available in the workforce. The forecast for summer hiring is heating up just as much as [...]

May 19, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

5 Top Blogs of the Week

by Blake McCammon

Top 5 Workplace Blogs of the Week for May 12th – May 17th Not on the list? Do you think you have what it takes? If so, email me! blake@xceptionalhr.com. Are you wanting to expand your skill in blogging? We’re accepting new bloggers! If you are an HR, workplace leader or recruiting practioner you should shoot me [...]

May 17, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Interviewing Candidates for Customer Service Jobs

by Stephanie Hammerwold

Companies like Google and Microsoft have made difficult interview questions famous. Why is a manhole cover round? How would you design an evacuation plan for San Francisco? These questions can be good for tech companies and other places that want to hire employees who can come up with creative solutions to complicated problems; however, such [...]

May 17, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Employment References in Retail

by Sabra Reyes

Employment reference checks, job verification, background check, whatever you want to call it, it’s absolutely necessary part of the hiring process. This is normally a very standard process in many industries but I have found it is not uncommon for retail employers to completely skip this step of the hiring process. Why!? It’s such a [...]

May 13, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

5 Top Blogs of the Week

by Blake McCammon

Top 5 Workplace Blogs of the Week for May 5th – May 11th Not on the list? Do you think you have what it takes? If so, email me! blake@xceptionalhr.com. Blogging4Jobs Top Blog of the Week: History of Terminations & Firings Because of Employee Social Media: Have you ever seen such a comprehensive list of social [...]

May 10, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

The Biggest Challenges in Human Resources

by Eric Friedman

The Human Resources profession has seen many shifts in how work is conducted and how companies interact with potential candidates. The biggest shift comes from the source of hire. When looking back in the past ten years recruiters have started sourcing candidates in several new and innovative ways then ever before. Far from perfection, the [...]

May 9, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Crying at Work

by Mike Haberman

Every manager and every HR person has faced tears at work. I will also wager that the majority of managers and HR people have shed some tears at work. We all get caught up in dealing with emotional situations. Sometimes they involve people we know well and as a result it may be difficult to [...]

May 7, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Do a Better Job of Managing Your Brand Touchpoints!

by Micheal Vandervort

Executives: Talk to your employees! There is a really good article in Fortune reminding executives they be doing a much better job of communicating with employees who don’t work at a desk. If your business depends on an army of delivery drivers, cooks, and waitpersons, retail sales staffers, field technicians, or other employees who move around [...]

May 6, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Building Your Street Cred When You’re the New Recruiter on the Block

by shannonsmedstad

Monday nights at 9 pm ET, there is a great Twitter community that comes alive for #internpro, hosted by @YouTern. We network, share some laughs and above all, provide meaningful career advice to Gen Y and one another. This past week, the topic was on credibility as a young professional. A few days later, I [...]

May 6, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Mama Knows Best: 4 Hiring Lessons Learned from Mom

by JoshTolan

As Mother’s Day approaches, you might be busy searching for the perfect gift to show mom you care. Last year alone, 4.1 million women became mothers and 81 percent of women in 2010 had children by the end of their childbearing years. With so many women entering the mommy club, from high-profile professionals like Yahoo [...]

May 5, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

5 Top Blogs of the Week

by Blake McCammon

Top 5 Workplace Blogs of the Week for April 28 – May 4th Are you on our list? Do you think you have what it takes? If so, email me! blake@xceptionalhr.com. Are you wanting to expand your skill in blogging? We’re accepting new bloggers! If you are an HR, workplace leader or recruiting practioner you should [...]

May 3, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

How I Learned to Love Job Interviews

by John Millen

When I was graduating from college way back when, I flirted with law schools but decided the world didn’t need me as a lawyer. As a communications major and former student body president, I thought I could do any number of things so I’d spread my wings and looked at a variety of jobs. GAUNTLET OF [...]

May 3, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Are We Asking Too Much of Our Female Role Models at Work?

by Mary Wright

“Ladies, we can rebuild her. We have the technology. We have the capability to build the world’s first bionic female role model. Jane Doe will be that woman. Better than she was before. Better, stronger, faster.” [...]

May 2, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

Desktop vs. Mobile Recruiting: When Do Job Seekers Search Online?

by Jessica Miller-Merrell

Learn more about getting started with your mobile recruiting strategy by joining me in Success Factor’s webinar, May 7th at 12 PM CST. Click here to learn more. A Move to a Mobile Recruiting World The world is mobile with over 50% of all internet activity now happening via a mobile device. Tablets, smartphones, and [...]

May 1, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

How Are You Getting Employee Feedback?

by Christine Assaf

We’ve heard the phrase over and over again (and the numbers always seems to change): For every customer that complains, there’s 10 others who didn’t complain. Company’s develop customer support centers, customer service call in lines, and feedback evaluations to get the complaints and be able to do something with them. (Have you gotten a [...]

April 30, 2013 CONTINUE READING THIS POST →

4 Time Saving Social Media Tips for #HR & #Recruiting

by Jessica Miller-Merrell

Looking for more social media time saving tips and secrets for HR, Human Capital Consultants, Recruiters and Business Partners? Head on over to our free webinar on 5/16 at 11 AM CST. Register here. Sometimes people tell me they are too busy and have too much to do to manage their social media, but I [...]