"Employees" Posts
You Can Do It! How to Crush That Interview and Get the Job
By Recent college graduates are told too often to focus on optimizing their resumes and underscoring their most significant accomplishments (of which there a generally few). Sure, while a high GPA and attractive internships look good, they won’t get you an offer. The best advice for interviewees is to reverse what many people do and highlight your potential rather than your limited experience and resume.
Let’s examine the secrets for a successful interview that is guaranteed to help you obtain your dream job:
Conduct Proper Research
More often than not, employers will seek out the candidate who not only demonstrates a …
Champions and Money Players
By Ken DiPrima
From 1947 through 1964, the New York Yankees were the American League Champions fourteen times. They missed playing in the World Series only three times during those seventeen years, and won the Series ten times in that short time span. They were known as the “money” players—players who fought hard for a share the World Series bonus money. The bonus money was truly significant, often equaling close to the annual salary of the typical player. They could smell victory and had the killer instinct to win.
But was it the pursuit of money that really motivated these players? The …
Hall of Famers or Journeymen?
By Ken DiPrima
America has a tendency to become obsessed with superstars, lavishing them with a host of awards and huge paychecks, and ultimately enshrining them into various halls of fame. Their fetes are often beyond legendary, and the adulation they receive is truly earned. Sports figures and entertainers alike all work toward achieving this high level of distinction.
They are the crème de la crème of their peers, but they have not arrived at their station alone. Their adoring fans become impatient; as the recipients are constantly thanking the people whom they believe helped make their success possible.
What then, is …
Teamwork: All Eight Oars In At The Perfect Time
By Ken DiPrima
“Talent wins games, but teamwork and intelligence wins championships,” said Michael Jordan. Those words, spoken by a six time NBA champion and one of the sports world’s top superstars, apply not only to sports teams, but to almost every endeavor in life.
Winning teams may have at least one superstar on its roster, but how many championship teams are composed of nothing but superstars? Not many, if any, at all. What they all do possess is an organization built on talented players, working as a single unit, executing a well designed plan.
A perfect example of this winning combination is …
‘E’ Is For Excellence
By Ken DiPrima
Anybody who has served at sea with the U.S. Navy is aware of the coveted ‘E’ award. The award stands for Excellence and is awarded, annually, based on a fleet wide competition, which measures the performance of each ship against an established set of rigid standards. By any measurement, it’s a big deal. A very, very, big deal…
The winning ship paints a large white ‘E’ on the bridge bulwarks on both the port and starboard sides of the ship. A ship that wins five consecutive battle efficiency competitions will replace the white ‘E’ with a gold one.
All ships …
CBS Consulting Asks: Does Your Business Need Spring Training?
By Ken DiPrima
The pop of a baseball smacking into a catcher’s mitt. The crack of a bat sending a line drive into the outfield. The grunt of men doing wind sprints…
These sounds are a definite sign that spring is just around the corner!
Sites, in both Florida and Arizona, host the thirty Major League baseball teams’ Spring Training. This annual event is both highly practical as well as significantly symbolic.
Every spring, hundreds of hopeful young ball players are given the opportunity to participate in the training camps of these major league teams. They have the chance to “show their stuff” …
Protecting Your Small Business From Employee Negligence
By Tom Ryan
A deadly crash in Springfield, Missouri caused by a truck driver (an immigrant who was appealing an order of deportation by the Department of Homeland Security) raises anew the liability risks that employers face.
On Wednesday morning, March 28, 2013, the trucking firm employee, who was driving from California to Missouri, plowed into the back of a car sitting at a stop sign, killing both the driver and a passenger.
The truck was estimated to be traveling at 60 mph in a 40 mph zone. The driver of the truck was also in violation of the Department of Transportation ‘Hours …
The Benefits of Engaged Employees
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A relatively new school of management thought, since the 1990’s, is that engaged employees are better employees. There has been some amount of confusion about this softer metric ever since, which this handy infographic by Ceridian helps to clarify—what exactly does engagement mean, anyway?
Nope, It’s Not Employee Happiness
Engagement does not mean employee happiness or satisfaction, although this can be a side-effect of employees feeling engaged (and, therefore, the reason for that common misunderstanding), but rather an employee who is committed to their organization’s goals and objectives.
A better term may be ownership. Engaged employees actually take personal …
How To Interview Correctly
…and recruit the right people for your business
Today, small business owners face many challenges. One of the most difficult challenges is hiring the right employees. The difficulties surrounding the hiring process include: cost of recruitment, training, management and last but not least, the frustration of employee turnover. I believe the solution to the above difficulties lies at the beginning of the hiring process, in other words, the interview.
As many business owners know, finding the right employee is just as difficult as running any other aspect of the business. Therefore, more emphasis should be placed on the interview itself. …
I Heard It Through The Grapevine
Don’t let it be your company’s swan song
Depending on when you read this article, the light at the end of the tunnel for your company might be that long-awaited, positive turning point in your business that you fought for. Or, it might be another train coming at you.
The continuing turmoil caused by this lengthy economic downturn has undoubtedly affected you and your employees in many ways, most of them negative. Even if your company has not been directly impacted by a reduction in force (such as layoffs), hiring freeze, reorganization or a realignment of responsibilities, the chances that …