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Outsource Your Recruiting Campaign

Sky — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 18:28:23 +0000

Staffs are the real soul of an organization. They bring characteristics and culture into a business. Great teams of staff could lead a business to great success in the future, while bad teams could bring great losses to a company. When a business is launching a recruiting campaign, it needs to invest a lot of time and energy into investing the of their candidates to see whether they are qualified and have the characteristics the company desired. It could be a tough task and very time-consuming.
Outsourcing the job to outside professionals could help a business save a lot of time and energy on this aspect. And it somehow helps keep the operational costs down. For small businesses, outsourcing the recruiting campaign makes a perfect option, as they will not need to run their own human resource management department as a result.
Are you planning to recruit more talents for your company in preparation for the fight to success in 2012? Are you looking to rely on the advice and help by experts with years of experience in recruiting and head hunting? Check it out online for the leading service providers with most outstanding reputation in practice. Get some assistant from the leading recruitment service, such as DATS Recruitment.

The Cost of Losing a Good Staff

Sky — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 08:54:15 +0000

Employee Turnover cost is among the biggest costs of all kinds of organizations. Losing the best staff can be costly to your practice in many ways. It could be generated into the following types:

1. Direct performance loss
Before someone else is able to fill the seat, the lossing one good staff would cast direct performance loss, which could be caculated by days. In service sector, such as a retailing shop, such kind of loss would be more obvious and could be seen in the drop in the amount of daily sales. ②

2. Low morale
Losing good staff will greatly affect the morale within a team. If you are losing a number of good staff, the damage to your team could be fatal.

3. Decreased customer satisfaction
It takes time for the new staff to get familiar with their jobs. Before then, your existing customers will feel the gap and their satisfation level will decrease due to the gap in the quality of service.

4. Cost for recruitment
There are many different types of direct and indirect cost related to running a new round of recruitment: such as consulting fees for head hunters, reimbursement for the interviewees’ transportation, extra payment for HR staff’s extra working time, etc.

5. Opportunity costs
And there are a number of opportunity costs that are not mentioned above. Sometimes, such costs could be huge!

So, if you are looking to avoid such kinds of loss, do remember to treat your staff, especially good ones, well!

8 Tricks to Retain More Talents Within Your Organization

Sky — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 10:58:49 +0000

Talents are among the most important competitive asset for companies to generate good profits and survive fierce competition in tough market situation. To better build this critical capability, organizations need to pay more attention to its human resource management practice. Here are 8 tricks for companies to take in order to retain the best talents.

First of all, companies need to start with establishing an effective and efficient recruitment process in order to keep a tight control of the source of talents;
Secondly, it is important to identify the employees who are just pretending to be working as well as the ones that actually have great potential;
Thirdly, offering a competitive salary makes a strong part in motivation strategy;
Fourthly, more appreciation and encouragement at workplace could actually do more good than you might originally expected;
Fifthly, painting a bright future of the company for the employees help strengthen their confidence in the organization;
Sixthly, be open to the ones who once left the organization is wise, as it ensure you won’t lose the best talents simply as they are shy to come back to work for you again;
Seventhly, tailor personalized job training or career development courses help improve the quality of your employees and make the ones with big ambition more satisfied;
Last but not least, it is key to have a good discussion concerning your employees’ leave in order to protect your business from being harmed by the leaving of certain member.

Management Psychology

Sky — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 06:56:37 +0000

Managing people are quite hard. In order to do the job well, you need to understand people’s psychology well.
For example, if one person worth the salary of $50,000 a year, don’t bargain with him to only pay him $45,000 a year. Even if you have save $5,000 a year, you will actually hurt his heart. If the staff have any chance to get a better paid job, he’ll leave immediately without any second thought. On the contrary, if you pay the person $55,000 without bargain, he’ll work twice as hard as they can for your company.
Always remember that it’s never a good idea to use the money you should be used to pay for one staff with higher qualification to hire two people with little capability.

Signal to Quit

Sky — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 06:11:05 +0000

People quit their jobs for different reasons: getting tired of the previous environment, looking for further career development, fighting for higher salary, etc. But when it comes to you, you might be wondering when will be the time to quit.
Here are a few signals that tells people they should quit their current jobs. If you are in similar situation, it is time for you to consider getting your resign letter prepared.

1. You are not able to learn anything new and interesting from your job any more.
2. You feel pretty reluctant to wake up in the morning to go to work in an exciting mood.
3. You shop online quite a lot in order to kill some time during work in the office.
4. You do not like most of your colleagues at work at all.
5. Your income cannot actually make your monthly ends meet.
6. You are spending some time at work to find other jobs in the field.
7. You haven’t got any salary increase over the past two years.
8. You have got a terrible boss.
9. The company has got into its downturn and got trapped.
10. You always felt that there is too much working pressure for you to take.

How to Attract a Good Team

Sky — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 10:09:44 +0000

Finding the right employees and keeping them on your team can be tough. Here are a few ways to attract talents and keep them working hard in a team.

1. High Salary
You could attract talents with good salary, which is higher than the industry average. However, remember that people, who over emphasize money will do a lot of things for money.

2. Equity + future
Give your staff the view of a bright future plus some equity. It makes a much better solution than high salary due to the low short-term costs.

3. Recognition + trust + the future
For most talents, recognition and trust are quite important motivation factors. And the view of a great career development help keep them focus on working towards the right direction.

Employees Most Desired by Company at the Start-up Phrase

Sky — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 05:43:02 +0000

At the starting phrase of a business, most attention and investment are paid to the getting into the market and attract customers. As a result, internal management might not be quite ideal. Part of the offices might still be unfurnished, human resource management process are not perfect, standardized work procedure are not established yet, and there are much more problem to face. It might take some time for the business owners to sort everything out and make them go onto the right track.
At this phrase, a new business could not afford to spare any energy or money on dealing with troublesome staff. The following types of employees are desired most at this stage:

1. The ones that do not care about the working environment at all.
2. The ones that are dedicated to the job and would accept working overtime.
3. The ones that are flexible and would not get entangled in the process.
4. The ones that have their own opinion and love to ask questions.
5. The ones that are quite alert to changes in the market and the customers.
6. The ones that won’t push thier own responsibilities away onto the others.
7. The ones that are always there to solve the real problems.
8. The ones that recognize and support the company’s values and mission.

High Skills, Low Bills

Sky — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 12:12:07 +0000

According to recent research by the National Apprenticeshipos Service, over 80% of the people surveyed said that they were more likely to use a business if it offered apprenticeships. So if you want your business to gain a competitive edge, consider taking a leaf out of Sir Alan Sugar’s book.
The study was conducted to tie in with the launch of the Service’s Good for Business compaign, which aims to inform employers about the benefits of taking on an apprentice. Previous studies by the organization have found that apprenticeships also help improve workforce motivation, productivity and fill skills gaps.

Using Myers Briggs to Select Job Candidates More Efficient

Sky — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 07:14:30 +0000

Personality analysis, or personality assessments, has been widely adopted by various kinds of businesses these days. Such test allows the businesses to go beyond first impressions and better analyze the true value of skills and character of the job candidates.
Personality tests could be of great help for the executives in an organization to select the right people, who not only has the knowledge and skills, but also meet the cultural and behavioral requirements, for different positions and retain them longer.
As the economic uncertainty and shrinking budgets are pushing most companies to search for smarter hiring practices to get suitable job candidates. Actually, according to a survey recently conducted by the American Management Association, it was revealed that one third of the human resource managers are now incorporating personality profiling into their hiring decision-making process.
These days, a lot of softwares for personality tests are available online. They could further help make the process of personality assessments more quickly.
Are you interested in the renowned and psychological tools available in the market place? Are you looking to better understand yourself and others, in order to bring about improved performance? Check it out online today to learn more about myers briggs, including how it works and what benefits it will bring forwards.

Staff Commitment will Pave the Way to Success for the Employers

Sky — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 10:02:35 +0000

A key challenge in sustaining the economy will be keeping up employment. It is a priority to keep employees happy and loyal.
Sustainable business makes new demands on an employer and what comes with that is a much greater level of engagement with employees. It is especially important in the service industries, in which the attitude of employees is crucial to the reputation of the business. However, to operate a sustainable business, it requires a tricky balancing act of generating work for the populace without undermining core economics.
But it is becoming increasingly hard for people nowadays to find a real new job in increasingly automated eocnomies, as there is always a trade-off between employing people and capital expenditure on machines. The society will face the need to draw more people into paid employment, without undermining commercial competitiveness which is often enhanced by automation.