An Improving Economy Could Mean Loss of Employees. Will They Stay or Will They Go?
When accounting for the costs (both real costs, such as time taken to select and recruit a replacement, and also opportunity costs, such as lost productivity), the cost of employee turnover to organizations has been estimated to be up to 150% of the employees’ remuneration package. In the case of the public sector can, orRead… Read more »
Snip-Snip … More Pay & Benefits Cuts
Posted in the 4/17/2012 edition of FedSmith, Ian Smith shared the Senate’s Budget Committee’s plan. Speaking on the plan, the committee chairman said he would “begin a Budget Committee markup of a long-term budget for the nation. As my Chairman’s Mark, I will lay down the bipartisan Fiscal Commission plan, also known as the Bowles-SimpsonRead… Read more »
Aligning Margins And Performance At DoD
Stan Soloway, president and chief executive officer of the Professional Services Council (PSC), wrote a piece recently about the issues defense contractors face and the tough times that lay ahead for industry as the federal budgets continue to shift and shrink. Mr. Soloway’s piece was in conjunction with the PSC’s recent Marketview 2012 conference, andRead… Read more »
WayIn for Human Resources
Way-In enables real-time crowd sourcing of opinion (in a fun way) If you have not yet checked out WayIn, you might want to head over there right now. WayIn allows you to post quick polls and quickly crowd source opinion. While it is still a small service, they have big goals (and the back-end toRead… Read more »
Ask Yourself: What Are You Optimizing For?
We are constantly balancing – sometimes it feels like juggling – core levers in our lives: finances, family, friends, community, hobbies, etc. How do we decide what to do first and can we do it all? Another part of finding happiness relies on you confronting WHY you do these things and decide which are reallyRead… Read more »
How Long Does a Recruiter Review a Resume?
In the last few weeks, there has been much discussion about a study that came out which reviewed recruiters’ resume scanning behavior. The key points of the study show that recruiters only scan resumes for 6 seconds and look for key pieces of information such as name, current title and company, past titles and company,Read… Read more »
Lesson: We Are Never as Smart as We Think We Are
I was privileged to see in person the flybys and final landing of NASA905 and Discovery yesterday at Dulles. The event vividly brought back my boyhood dreams of being an an astronaut and the thrill of space exploration. Today, I want to share with you terrific insider’s blog and lesson learned on “How We NearlyRead… Read more »
Work
Jay Deragon has written a post, Social Shifts In Thinking, about how the American economy has fundamentally changed, and not for the first time! It’s a short post, well worth a read. His last sentence is You can’t see the solutions unless you change how to think about solutions. The same day I was treatedRead… Read more »
Is your Facebook account private from an employer? Should it be?
One question I was asked at the last Social Media Surgery was – could I say something about employers access to employees Facebook accounts. Yes I can. There has been a trend in the US of employers asking to have access to employees Facebook accounts. This has gone so far that Facebook have reacted toRead… Read more »