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The headline above was the subject line of an email I received recently.

First off, don't assume your dislike is a bad thing.

What do you get when you buy $320,000 worth of televisions, a hot tubs and gazebos and electronics, pornographic videos, handcuffs, chains and whips? Some might call that a great night. But …

Three common offenders that damage employee relationships.

There were many reasons for the decline of Microsoft under Steve Ballmer, including, as I wrote this morning, its lack of focus and its habit of chasing trends rather than creating them.

Some organizations are just lucky. They have a huge, Niagara-like, flow of applicants knocking at their front door. They hire teams of people to scan paper resumes. But any experienced …

By Eric B. Meyer There are 11 states with social media workplace privacy laws making it illegal for an employer to require that an employee or applicant fork over a social media login and …

Here's a question that every manager and HR professional should ask themselves: Is it ever right to fire someone publicly? If you have spent any time managing, or working in HR, you surely …

On average, people spend nine (9) hours of their day at work. Projecting this over an entire lifetime, we face a very big, somewhat scary number. When you consider this number, it should …

Anywhere that people are talking about talent, someone is bound to mention the skills gap. What is the skills gap? Simply put, the skills gap is the difference between the qualities needed …

Retention has become a big deal and a top concern for many organizations. This is acutely true around high performers and employees with very in-demand skills. And, as with many people …

The headline above was the subject line of an email I received recently.  

I know most of us would answer, “That would be great.”

Interestingly enough, I find it’s pretty easy to get applicants to share this information

What if Human Resources had to sell their services to their customers, fulfill the promise, and be paid based upon results? How many HR teams would get passing grades from the executive …

A rapidly changing legal landscape is making the application, interview and screening processes increasingly complicated – and potentially dangerous for employers, which includes staffing …...

This is not a story about Steve Ballmer, Steve Jobs, Tim Cook or Carl Icahn, although they all help to make the point that business strategy is often overlooked when making critical hiring decisions.

HR professionals worry a lot about whether their CEO thinks they are strategic business leaders. Turns out it isn’t the CEO that HR professionals need to worry about. It’s the CFO.

Many studies now indicate that workplace bullying is a very real, all-too-common and incredibly harmful practice in workplaces world-wide.  Here are some shocking statistics: Jacqueline Power of th...

Don't be fooled by a job candidate's embellished resume. Protect yourself by knowing the telltale signs that an applicant's lying.

Life hasn't been easy for big box electronics retailer Best Buy the past few years. Best Buy used to be one of THE best places to buy all manner of electronics, but a combination of …

If I could ask only one question in an interview, it would be ... Here is the one question I would ask in an interview as well as some, but not all, of its follow up parts: