Human Resources

How to Measure the Effectiveness of Training

If only changing behaviour were as simple as sending people on training courses and having them come back fixed! The process is not ever that simple, but it can be broken down into a number of steps, each one easy to define and in practice fairly straightforward to manage.
The steps described below define evaluation [...]

How Do You Know Who’s Hiring

If you’re a company that prides itself on providing recruitment services to young employees and workers throughout your area, you need to have a process in place to actually know who’s hiring. Right now especially with the economy in turmoil and the risk of rising unemployment always on the horizon, there is a real need [...]

Show Appreciation for your Employees without Breaking the Bank

During these strained economic times, many employers may lose sight of why a good employee recognition program is so important. Indeed, this sort of awards program is vital to a company’s success, as it promotes high company morale and productivity. It can be easy to come up with reasons as to why this sort of [...]

Win Business and Loyalty with these Corporate Gift Ideas

Corporate gifts are a time-honored tradition in the business world. Outings, dinners, and tangible presents are great ways to win over clients and associates. However, during an economic recession, this tradition of corporate gift giving can easily be left by the wayside. These gifts can be seen as an unnecessary expense, rather than as [...]

Attorney Resume: Getting That Law Firm to Like You

A good attorney resume will communicate more loads of personal information than you can imagine. Attorneys and lawyers are, as we know, powerhouses of arguments and speeches. In order to be of the legal caliber and surviving it, one has to master the art of rhetoric and good speech. This also goes well with writing. [...]

Let Attorney Search Firms Do the Finding for You

Attorney search firms are continuing to provide qualified applicants to companies with legal needs. Whatever the scale and size of their business, every organization will find it beneficial to maintain some kind of legal counsel within their base of operations. Institutions are finding it more cheap and efficient to hire in-house legal counsel that can [...]

Legal Recruiters: Letting Focused Search Succeed

Nowadays, legal recruiters have recognized some very basic needs of the legal community. Every year in the country, thousands of lawyers graduate and aspire to serve the needs of corporate America. Companies often install dedicated legal counseling departments that serve and give out legal and corporate advice, workout with and guide the companies through contracts, [...]

Getting Ready To Hire Your First Assistant

There comes a time in every entrepreneur’s life when they realize they just can’t do it alone. They realize they’re maxed out – either on time or ability – and there’s no way their business will grow until they start delegating some tasks.
If that sounds like you, then keep reading. And if that doesn’t [...]

Legal Resume: Avoiding Pitfalls in Marketing Yourself

Legal resumes build rapport from you to across your potential employer. By it, the law firm you are applying for will know your professional record at a glance. It is therefore vital and important that you get your resume right.
Avoiding mistakes. Resume writing requires one to be detail-conscious of the text. For example, no [...]

Putting the Power of Business Assessment Tools to Work for You

The overwhelming majority of business assessment tools are designed to measure either personality, motivation (attitudes, values), or competence (skill). The first of these, personality assessment, has a long tradition in the field of psychology. Despite this tradition, there is little consensus about how exactly to measure or, in fact, define personality. Two widely [...]