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• 08 Mar

  

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  Michelle Ventrella

  
  

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  Remembering Retention

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  While you can (and most are) debate whether the recession is actually ‘over,’ I would caution employers against exhaling too soon. If you’re like most, you’ve been looking at employees through the lens of cost-cutting and termination. Times are changing and it’s time to look through the lens of retention.

  I would argue you should never shift focus away from retention, but this is perhaps for another blog post. The reality is that retention has simply not been a priority for most businesses in the past 18 months and that needs to change.

  An extraordinary legacy of the recent economic downturn is its creation of a new kind of employee; one who has seen, felt and experienced first-hand the trauma of working inside an organization when the economic world outside is crumbling. These employees are the witnesses. The survivors. And while they’ve been seriously disgruntled for months now (Great Recessions will do that), they’ve stuck around because of limited options elsewhere.

  That’s changing.

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• 17 Sep

  

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  Erik Bartz

  
  

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  Gap Adopts Results-Only Work Environment

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  Gap To Employees: Work Wherever, Whenever You Want – BusinessWeek.

  You might recall reading about Best Buy switching to a work when you want, wherever you want workplace strategy a couple of years ago.  Well, a second major retailer has joined this budding revolution in HR strategy, and seen huge returns on their marginal investment.

  ROWE is a corporate culture initiative designed to significantly improve employee productivity, accountability and engagement. Under a ROWE, employees are empowered to work whenever and wherever they want as long as the work gets done.

  Turnover plummeted, engagement and work-life balance scores jumped after just letting their employees dictate their own schedules and locations.  Well, that is simplifying what Gap Outlet did, so click over to the article which includes an overview of the process they used to implement ROWE and some of the results they experienced.

• 22 Jul

  

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  Erik Bartz

  
  

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  12 Ways To Conduct A Great Interview | Six Pixels of Separation

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  Six Pixels of Separation posted an informative list of 12 Ways To Conduct A Great Interview which is definitely worth a read before your next interview.  We all have our own interviewing styles, but it doesn’t hurt hearing someone else’s perspective.  Not to take away the post’s thunder, but I’ve included the section titles to get you excited to go check out the full article.

  1. Don’t conduct an interview, have a conversation
  2. Do your homework
  3. Don’t stick to your agenda
  4. Have notes, not questions
  5. Ask open ended questions
  6. Open arms
  7. If you’re going to record it…
  8. Don’t say anything
  9. Watch the clock
  10. Be the ambassador for your audience
  11. Don’t just take notes
  12. Have fun
• 25 Nov

  

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  Erik Bartz

  
  

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  Hiring the Net Generation

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  I read an interesting article on BusinessWeek this morning; a couple of lines stuck out to me in particular.

  Once the recession is over, the smart companies that have hired top young talent will be in a prime position to survive the next war: the war for talent. As one of my clients said to me, “A recession is a terrible thing to waste.”

  Its an add-on notion that businesses that cut back during a recession limit their abilities to grow when its over.  However, for many the Net Generation as this article calls them (otherwise known as Gen Y or Millenials) stand as a bit of a mystery or yet another problem to overcome.

  Regardless how you feel about them, they are changing the rules of engagement.  Running an ad in your local newspaper isn’t going to find top talent among this group.  So where are you going to find them?  How are employers going to attract the Net Generation?

  • Informative web sites
  • blogs and podcasts
  • Multimedia on YouTube and Facebook
  • Hiring FAQ page in the form of a wiki

  The author also suggests wisely that companies and interviewers need to start looking at interviews as two-way dialogue.  Employers are being evaluated just as mach as the candidate, and this extends into the 90-day probationary period.

  Supervision may be on the way out, too. Brad Anderson , chief executive of Best Buy (BBY), puts it this way: “The Net Geners we hire have enormous knowledge, unprecedented information, and facility with tools that in some areas is superior to their seniors.” So the job of management is more to create the context whereby they can be successful, rather than to supervise them.