4 Reasons Why You Won’t Get Your Dream Job

Ready to get your dream job? It’s a complex process involving more than completing an application andnailing the interview. As the saying goes, the devil is in the details, and it’s definitely true for making a standout impression. If it seems like your job search is slow and unsuccessful, you may be making one of several common job search mistakes

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Starting Your First Job? 5 Tips for Success

Congrats, Grad! You finished finals, made it through the graduation ceremony (hopefully without falling on your face while receiving your diploma), and you’re ready to start your first job. Now what? The advice from Career Services tends to stop once you accept an offer, and many new grads find themselves lost in their first position.

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Even Your Happy Employees Want to Quit

New Year, New Job? If you saw the number of workers looking for new jobs has risen, you’d probably think it’s because employers are withholding raises and making workers unhappy where they are. But you’d be wrong. An annual survey by Salary.com found there was a sharp increase in employee satisfaction in 2013, yet the

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7 Reasons Not to Hire Someone

Learn Which Hiring Red Flags to Spot During the Job Interview Process Beware These Red Flags If you’re a hiring manager or a small business owner who has gone through the hiring and job interview process, you know how difficult it can be finding the right person. Mainly because you first have to sort through

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7 Ways Social Media & Mobile Affects Hiring

New Survey Finds People Job Search Often & Online It’s All About Social Media…Kind Of Everyone knows by now social media is here to stay, and should be incorporated into how companies do business. And that includes hiring. We surveyed nearly 700 people earlier this year regarding their job search habits. But in addition to

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4 Ways You’re Biased During Job Interviews

Learn How Your Brain Is Hiring People Before You Even Realize It   You Don’t Even Realize It’s Happening Let us describe a scene and you tell us if it sounds familiar. You’re interviewing dozens of people but you’re excited about this next one because she had an unbelievable stat about reeling in two different

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9 Red Flags You Can Spot on Bad Resumes

How to Tell Which Resumes Belong in the Recycling Bin Know What to Look For On average, resumes are received 200 seconds after being submitted. Once a hiring manager lays eyes on it, he/she will spend anywhere from 5 to 7 seconds reading it before making a decision to pass it on or trash it.

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7 Signs You Hired the Wrong Employee

The Only Thing Worse Than Making a Hiring Mistake Is Not Catching It In Time Recognize the Problem Getting through the hiring process can be exhausting and time-consuming. We’ve been there and we get it. You found someone with a great resume, who has most of the skills needed, and seems like he’d be a

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Which of the 5 Hiring Personalities Are You?

Knowing Your Hiring Personality Makes You a Better Interviewer People Relate to Themselves Whether you recognize it or not, most hiring managers have a hiring style that is more reflective of who they are as a person, and not necessarily reflective of the companies for which they work. However, like a duck drawn to water,

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5 Ways to Avoid a Bad Hiring Reputation

A Bad Rep When It Comes to Hiring Will Lead to Less Qualified Applicants   Listen to Honest Feedback Think about the last time someone turned down a job offer you tendered. How did that feel? You can tell me it’s none of my business and I won’t be offended, but that gut-kick response does

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5 Ways to Successfully Handle an Exit Interview

How to Handle the Departure of Irate Employees Exit Interviews with Irate Employees Are Tricky For the most part, exit interviews are an excellent opportunity for employers to have a final conversation with their departing employees. They can be used to gain perspective from an employee on how well the team is working together and

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Should You Hire a 10x Employee?

Pros & Cons of Hiring Superstar Employees Meet Martin In the mid 1990s I took a job at a growing startup. The delineation of talent at the office was pretty clear: Four partners (President, VP/Technology, VP/Sales, VP/Marketing) and four employees (Video producer, Graphic Designer, and two Application Developers). Then there was Martin. Martin didn’t work

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5 Hiring Tips for Startups

Startups Should Highlight Advantages to Overcome Hiring Challenges How Startups Can Hire More Effectively You just got funded, congratulations! By now, you’ve likely accepted the condition of working with limited resources as the price for entrepreneurship. It’s not typical to receive carte blanche from your investors when it comes to paying yourself or your people.

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Should You Hire the Honey Badger?

Honey Badger Don’t Care, But You Should The Honey Badger has developed a nasty reputation over the past couple of years, but does that make him unemployable? The Honey Badger recently applied for an Inside Sales position with Salary.com. In compliance with the EEOC, we at Salary.com have assessed the candidate’s qualifications against the 28

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Tips for Negotiating Salary with Your Employees

Employers benefit from having both formal performance review and compensation review cycles. Many companies have a semiannual performance review cycle. One of the two reviews often coincides with the normal annual salary review while the other is used sparingly for special or off-cycle salary adjustments. This formal process is helpful because it allows the employer

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6 Questions about Job-specific Competency Standards

Competencies Help Determine Skills & Qualifications for Every Position The Importance of Competencies During a recent webinar about competencies, two points really stood out: competencies can be an integral part of performance management systems, and, you don’t have to expend time and energy building competency models from scratch. Not when we for Business can do that

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About Stock Options

About Stock Options One of the biggest challenges facing employers is recruiting and retaining qualified, dedicated employees. Over the past decade, with unemployment levels low and the economy doing well, one of the ways businesses in many industries were recruiting the best possible talent and keeping those employees happy was by offering stock options. For

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