by Caroline | Aug 26, 2015 | Company Culture, Hiring, Non profit HR, People Evaluation, teamwork
The only thing worse than making a bad hire is dragging your feet about getting rid of them. Yes, it’s upsetting to realize you hired badly and then start questioning your judgment and the judgment of others who gave this person the thumbs up. You try to think about...
by Caroline | Jul 29, 2015 | Compensation and Benefits, Culture, Hiring, Management, Non profit HR, Recruiting, rewards, Training
We’ve been in a weird phase in employee recruitment and retention the last decade. No matter what size your company, everybody who wants to hire top talent feels like they need to lure people in with margarita machines, giant beanbags and having a masseuse come in...
by Caroline | Jul 22, 2015 | Compensation and Benefits, Hiring, HRCompliance, Management, Non profit HR
Sometimes tax credits seem random. Sometimes tax credits seem like they’re always for the other guy. But sometimes, there are tax credits for hiring people who need an extra boost or being particularly good to your employees. And those are important tax credits to...
by Caroline | Jul 15, 2015 | Assessments, Company Culture, Hiring, HRCompliance, Labor Law, Management, Non profit HR, People Evaluation, Recruiting
In the passionate pursuit to be authentic and create an awesome culture, people keep wanting to do away with really crucial stuff, like job application forms. They don’t want their first interaction with someone to be filling out a bunch of boxes. They just want to...
by Caroline | Jun 25, 2015 | Company Culture, Hiring, Management, Non profit HR, People Evaluation, Recruiting, teamwork
About the same time Abraham Maslow was introducing his hierarchy of needs, educational psychologist Benjamin Bloom created another graduated triangle known as Bloom’s taxonomy. Bloom’s taxonomy looked at higher and higher levels of intellectual functioning, starting...
by Caroline | May 27, 2015 | Company Culture, Hiring, HRCompliance, Labor Law, Management, Non profit HR, Recruiting
Almost everybody underestimates the importance of a job description. Most people, from what I can gather, tend to think of it like filling out a template. “We need a __________ with _________years experience who can __________. The ideal candidate will have...
