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What You Can Learn From The U.S. Gov.’s Disastrous Hiring Process

Posted on December 16, 2014 by VoiceGlance
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The average federal employee makes $78,500 a year and is a recipient of a benefit package almost unheard of in the private sector, including a generous retirement package and good healthcare coverage. The federal government offers jobs where people can truly make a difference, like figuring out ways to help schools to understanding the mysteries of space, something cited by many as something they want out of work. And turnover is incredibly low as well, with USA Today finding that federal employees are more likely to die than get fired. Sounds like a great deal, right? And yet, despite all those advantages, the federal government is having …Read more »

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The “Best Places To Work” Are Working Their Employees To Death

Posted on December 11, 2014 by VoiceGlance
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Glassdoor recently released its annual “Best Places to Work” list, based off of 800,000 anonymous evaluations completed in the past year. The winner, unsurprisingly, was tech giant Google. But what was interesting was not necessarily seeing the top 10 companies, but reading the reviews of those top 10 companies. I went through each one, and I noticed a theme: yes, they offered great benefits and great leadership. But, ironically, enough, a lot of the top 10 companies were working their employees hard. Really hard. For example, here is a review from a former employee of first-place finisher Google: “I don’t …Read more »

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Is Our Self-Help Obsession Really Helpful?

Posted on December 10, 2014 by VoiceGlance
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In 2003, ABC News published an article entitled “Want to Get Rich? Write a Self-Help Book” that detailed the explosion of popularity of self-help books. Ushered in by the rabid success of Oprah Winfrey, the genre went from occupying one shelf in the back of the bookstore to being a legitimate, hundred-million dollar industry. Eleven years later, the self-help genre has gone far beyond books, with experts suggesting it is now a $10 billion-plus market that includes everything from personal coaching to motivational speakers. And that doesn’t include most content-producing websites, particularly ones playing to the business crowd, which are …Read more »

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The Motley Fool Has The Best Career Site. Period.

Posted on December 5, 2014 by VoiceGlance
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The Motley Fool, for those who don’t know, is essentially a news site dedicated to covering finance and the stock market, with the company also launching a mutual fund in 2009. They’ve been around since 1993, have about 300 employees and are based in Virginia. It is a successful company, becoming an influential voice in an increasingly-crowded market. But what really makes it unique is the amazing amount of energy and web space it spends marketing its employer brand. It isn’t wasted, either. Quite frankly, The Motley Fool’s recruiting team has the best presence on the web of any company …Read more »

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Why Most Stories About Millennials Are Bunk

Posted on December 2, 2014 by VoiceGlance
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We’ve all heard it before. They only wear skinny jeans and chubbies. They can’t go five minutes without taking a selfie. According to NPR, they are “post-gender.” Heck, one 60 Minutes expose portrayed them as so dependent that if their boss says anything negative about their performance, the boss can be sure to get a phone call from their mother within 20 minutes, demanding an apology. They are obsessed with themselves, but want to do work that helps others. They are changing the world with new technology, but are lazy and unmotivated. They put money above all else, but they …Read more »

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Black Friday Flopped And Cyber Monday Might Go Away. Here’s Why.

Posted on December 1, 2014 by VoiceGlance
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Black Friday profits were down this year, pretty dramatically. Bloomberg reports that sales were down by 11 percent compared to last year (which was down from the year before that), as six million fewer shoppers showed up. That decline certainly isn’t attributed to the economy. While wages haven’t increased much the past two years, America’s unemployment rate has steadily dropped from 8.6 percent in November of 2011 to 5.8 percent in October of this year (the latest stats available). When I saw those numbers, I assumed customers were going online, and Cyber Monday would be a big hit. While it …Read more »

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The Best Christmas Bonus A Company Can Give

Posted on November 30, 2014 by VoiceGlance
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Now that Thanksgiving has passed, it is time for businesses to figure out what to give their employees for Christmas. There is the traditional Christmas bonus, a custom that (perhaps rightfully) is going by the wayside. There is the Christmas party, which could be fun, but can also lead to uncomfortable situations and often becomes a JATTP (just another thing to plan). Both of those options have major downsides, which I’ll get into. Instead, there is a better solution out there, which avoids the major pitfalls of the two aforementioned ones: an unexpected day off. No employee, in any job, wouldn’t …Read more »

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What HR Teams Need To Learn From United Technology’s Big Hire

Posted on November 25, 2014 by VoiceGlance
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United Technologies shocked the business world Monday when it announced its CEO of the past six years, Louis Chenevert, was abruptly retiring and would immediately be replaced by their longtime CFO, Gregory Hayes. What’s interesting about the move is not necessarily that a longtime CEO abruptly left a company that generated $62.6 billion in revenue in 2013 or the rumors that go along with that. Or even the person who replaced him, Hayes, who has served as the company’s CFO since 2008. What’s interesting about it, at least from an HR perspective, is how commonplace the hire was. Hayes, a …Read more »

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Is Uber’s Audacious Recruiting Tactic Smart Business?

Posted on November 24, 2014 by VoiceGlance
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Earlier this year, Lyft drivers across the nation were experiencing a familiar phenomenon: they would pick up an Uber recruiter acting as a passenger, who would then spend the entire trip convincing the Lyft driver to take a job driving at Uber. Specifically, the drivers were offered more money per hour and up to a $1,000 bonus to join the rival driving service, according to various news reports.  The move was just part of a master plan by Uber entitled Operation SLOG designed to crush their biggest competitor. It is hard to argue that the plan is ethical, as Uber …Read more »

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Want To Be More Creative? Don’t Sleep

Posted on November 20, 2014 by VoiceGlance
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Wednesday, famed sportswriter Bill Simmons released a podcast where he interviewed Lorne Michaels, the man who created and still runs Saturday Night Live. In the interview, Michaels said something particularly interesting about the creative process. Simmons asked him about the grueling nature of SNL, where Michaels and his staff have been putting on a live hour of television each week for the past 40 years. Specifically, Simmons asked if that sort of schedule was too difficult, if there would be a benefit to cutting back. Michaels’ answer: no. “There’s a mantra that I have, which is fatigue is your friend,” …Read more »

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