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Wise Management Steps Of Employee Reductions
Most employers face an employee reduction or layoff at some point during their ownership. This is an emotional and stressful experience, as well as including some legal risks, that need to be taken seriously and strategically. Obviously, the reason for the stress and intensity involves the fact that this transition will be affecting many peoples’ …
Continue Reading >What To Do If Your Employer Expects To Close?
There are multiple businesses who are said to be preparing to close in 2020. If your employer is one, what are you doing in the meantime? Some employers are providing some type of incentive pay to encourage employees to stay until the closing. However, if an opportunity arises, should you take that or stay until …
Continue Reading >The Key to Effective Outplacement
This is not to make the community anxious but to help them to be informed and proactive. Changes happen! That’s life! But be wise and stay informed and prepared to “manage the change”, rather than having the “change manage you”. Read and learn. Whoever coined the word “Outplacement” has caused much confusion for those in …
Continue Reading >Breaking News! 2020 NC SHRM Conference
Preview of the 2020 NC SHRM Conference to be held in Winston-Salem with Bill Crigger as the Chair of the Event. This was an interview that was promoted on Facebook. Great opportunities for SHRM members, potential sponsors, exhibitors and speakers by going to the website note via this link. Additional information: http://ncshrmconference.com
Continue Reading >Human Resources: Professionals Impacting The Bottom Line
The majority of business owners and employers don’t grasp how “human resources” can benefit a company’s bottom line, but they most definitely can! Since a business is dependent on good, productive employees, there are many ways how the human resources professionals directly impact the Bottom Line. Even before beginning to recruit for qualified employees, an …
Continue Reading >Business Concerns that Require Responsible & Progressive Leaders
All businesses and organizations encounter a variety of challenges and issues on an on-going basis. Some incidents can be more devastating and costly than others. Today some employees express a lack of confidence in their leaders. What are companies doing to resolve this void? How can employers correct this? Companies need “good leaders”! Who can provide the …
Continue Reading >Employers Who Find Themselves Releasing Employees
One of the worst tasks of employers is finding themselves facing a downsizing or with the necessity of releasing employees due to no fault of their own. Yes, you hear that “business is business”, and that “it’s not really personal”, but releasing an employee, who has been doing his or her job is a very …
Continue Reading >What Makes a Job Search So Difficult?
If you think that a Job Search should be a “piece of cake” these days with low unemployment and so much available with the internet, THINK AGAIN!!! First of all, there are LOTS of competition. In the Charlotte Metro, we have 60+ people moving here each day! Therefore, any position posted on the internet can draw …
Continue Reading >INSIGHT FOR JOB SEARCH CANDIDATES
With Charlotte continuing to be such a draw for many people moving, some say we have approximately 60+ people moving to the Metro each day. Imagine that in just 10 days, 600 people could be looking for a job. In 30 days that would be 1800 people in a job search. Obviously, not all of …
Continue Reading >What if You Are the One Released From a Job?
Being “downsized, released, restructured” from a job is nothing new, and yet when it is YOU, it can be different than expected. Some go into shock – you might feel numb, never believing it would happen to you! Others become angry and resentful! (How dare they do this to me!) While others go into a …
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