The Happiest Companies for Young Professionals

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(From Forbes) -- Do you envy those who go to work every day truly cheerful and eager? You can be that happy, too. Just land a job at Nordstrom, GlaxoSmithKline or FedEx. More »

Short-Term New Hire Performance More Valuable Than Retention

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(From Chief Learning Officer) -- New professional and managerial level employees face a make-or-break “race for impact” as businesses demand more from staff during the tough economic climate, according to a global study from recruitment services firm Futures... More »

Meet Your Future Employees

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(From Forbes) -- Workplace culture evolves with each generation, and today’s hires have demands and needs quite different from what their hiring managers are used to. And of course, the batch of future employees who have yet to master the alphabet will bring still... More »

Investing in the Science of People

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(From The Moscow Times) -- In our personal lives, whether it is our friends or spouse or kids, we all know that relationships are an art. Some people are better at it than others, and we all have good and bad days. But in a multibillion-dollar business, recruiting and r... More »

How Companies Can Spot and Groom Leaders

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(From CBSNews.com) -- One lament that commonly echoes through the corridors of senior management is not having the right people in the right places to do the job. Results of the PricewaterhouseCoopers' annual Global CEO survey confirm that this concern is more than anec... More »