What employers are looking for in a job applicant? Finding a job‚ whether it is the first‚ a return to work after years at home‚ or just another step in the career‚ is never easy. Most job seekers have a distorted sense of an employer’s priorities in making hiring decisions. Too many applicants put the emphasis on educational credentials and ignore the qualities employers seek with the keenest interest. What do employers look for in job candidates? What impresses them the most? Knowing
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connection between employee engagement and business results; a meta-analysis conducted by Harter et al (2002:272) confirms this connection. They concluded that‚ “…employee satisfaction and engagement are related to meaningful business outcomes at a magnitude that is important to many organisations”. However‚ engagement is an individual-level construct and if it does lead to business results‚ it must first impact individual-level outcomes. Therefore‚ there is reason to 7 expect employee engagement
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Making employee engagement happen in today’s organisations – moving forwards‚ from strategy to action The Communications Lab is a communication practice specialising in employee engagement. We help organisations use employee engagement to turn business issues into business outcomes. We want to experiment with internal communication and employee engagement‚ sparking debate‚ provoking ideas and new ways of thinking within our industry. To enable this to happen we have set up the lab. The lab
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The current job market can be quite competitive. With the unemployment rate at 7.9 %(Fontes‚ 2013)‚ many individuals are going back to school to earn their degree. This is in part from employers requiring potential hires to think critically. ("What Skills Are Employers Looking For?‚" 2013). Employers will appreciate the hard work that goes into earning a degree‚ but if one cannot think critically‚ the chances of landing that job are slim. To determine a definition for critical thinking‚ one
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Policy-makers and many employers are convinced that employee ownership is necessary to obtain commitment to employees’ work and to their organisations. Assess the evidence for this proposition and explain why you agree or disagree with it. In October 2011‚ anti-capitalism activists held a demonstration outside London’s St. Pauls Cathedral that caused a political debate regarding the future of big business. Marisa Cassoni‚ previous financial director at John Lewis Partnership‚ believes that organisations
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relevant to employee turnover aspect with regards of employee dissatisfaction on different dimensions towards impacts of employee turnover. There were four dimensions used in this research as employee dissatisfaction which is management style‚ work environment‚ training and development and personal factors. The quantitative survey with 50 respondents took part has been adopted in this research. A set of self developed structured questionnaire titled Employee Turnover: Factor and Impact of Employee Dissatisfaction
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RUNNING HEAD: EMPLOYEE TRAINING AND CAREER DEVELOPMENT Employee Training and Career Development Marty Carbajal HRM 300 Fundamentals of Human Resources Management Jennifer Brito April 1‚ 2013 Training in an organization’s development The importance of employee training cannot be over emphasized; employee training is at the core of every organization‚ indeed in every job. Without proper training‚ the ability of every employee can be compromised and lead to unsafe situations. In order for
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globally. The purpose of this research is therefore‚ to find out the actual reasons behind turnover and its damaging affects on the productivity of different industries in Bangladesh. Relationships among Turnover and Productivity Turnover deeply related with the productivity of an organization. Employee turnover can hamper the overall productivity of an organization and is often a symptom of other difficulties. Productivity is the measures of an organization to achieve its targeted production
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I like one of one blog posts named “Employee Engagement: Energizing and Mobilizing People” written by Dr. George H. Labovitz and Victor Rosansky from the Google Reader Bundle you recommended. It was posted on http://www.greatleadershipbydan.com. In today’s world of uncertainty where economy is in turmoil‚ companies need to make necessary adjustments to their business models and quickly needs to realign their strategies considering the pace of technological‚ competitive‚ and social changes. To make
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same organization? The transactional view of employment in that the employee sells his or her labor to the highest bidder is blind to the fact that the relationship between the two parties is of mutual acceptance. The employees too make sacrifices for the organization and deserve to be compensated fairly. Compensation ethics should include:- the obligations to make decisions that are consistent with long-term employee interests ‚ should inform employees within a reasonable time the conditions
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