If managing a hyper-growth tech startup in Silicon Valley is like launching a rocket, then the fuel is a mix of venture capital funding and engineering talent. The right group of engineers can thrust a startup to a sky-high valuation – which then attracts even more funding.

Sansio, a software-service provider in Duluth, Minn., has a 4,000-square-foot wellness center that features cardio machines, a golf studio, saunas and free weights for workers to use. “We feel a healthy employee taking part in a wellness program is going to be more productive and potentially save money downstream in health insurance costs,” says Kevin […]

Employee assessments allow you to more efficiently measure potential candidates on key areas and capabilities needed to be successful in a role.

It could take another two years before the labor market returns to normal, according to research by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City released on Friday, underscoring how far we have to go.

To be an effective business leader (and this is, without question, the goal for those of us who want to still be employable moving forward) requires you to not only personally embrace a digital first posture but to also look microscopically at your career to date and where it is headed. I am fascinated by […]

In the ecosystem of online recruitment products & services, there’s been a lot of buzz around the use of smart phones for job search. But true innovation in mobile for recruitment has been pretty pretty lacking. Here’s seven “blue sky” ways we might use Mobile to connect to talent in the future.

LinkedIn has just rolled out a handy tool that allows job seekers, entrepreneurs and other business networkers the opportunity to easily add photos and other graphics to their profiles.

Now that millennials are entering the workforce, you may be noticing that you need to adapt your employee motivation strategies for this new generation. Millennials are a different kind of employee, and employee motivation tactics that worked for previous generations may not be as effective for millennials. Here is the first article in a two-part […]

As our Legal Editor Heather Bussing says, Really weird stuff happens at work. That’s the focus of our feature article this week from Heather, When Harassment is Legal. Maren Hogan returns to the HR Examiner Editorial Advisory Board with her article Humanizing Your Brand Through Social Media: 6 Steps. John Sumser rounds up this week’s […]

Here’s how 3,300 hiring managers find talent. Take note as you pursue your next job.

In its latest study of social recruiting TweetMyJobs determined that one of every three job seekers are using social media as their primary job-search tool, and two of every three employers will be growing their social recruiting efforts.

Women can feel more loyalty to companies, and more guilt when they leave. But staying with one job for too long could cost you a lot of money.

As the owner of a very small business, you may not be required to provide employee benefits, but there are still plenty of reasons for you to do so anyway.

If your only source of information about millennials comes from articles about millennials written by the generation that directly preceded it, an image of a person aged roughly 18 to 30-years-old might look like a self-absorbed monster–a kid on a couch whose dead brain cells leak through his nose and onto his iPhone while he […]