Introduction Equity compensation is a noncash compensation that represents an ownership interest in the company. In the global environment, organizations are increasingly making stocks offered to most or all employees and no longer limiting it to top managers and executives. The basic coherent for equity-based compensation is that it: a) Better aligns individual employee objectives with organizational objectives. b) Increases [...]

The freelance market is growing at a rapid pace. While freelance employees offer the advantage of high-quality skills and a fresh perspective on your company, there are legal issues to keep in mind.  If you’re considering hiring freelancers for the first time, you should be aware of how employment law affects this type of arrangement. Taking on freelance workers typically [...]

Today, the art of supervising workers has become a very complicated task. Those days when the supervisor’s word was law are long gone. Sad is the fact that a vast majority of supervisors have not been trained or have not been updated on current employment laws. The laws governing employees’ rights change almost on a daily basis; therefore the Human [...]

Introduction Relations at workplace are different from those that we create and develop in our day to day life. Just like our personal relations, our professional relations are also based on trust, faith, and respect. Both types of relations require investment of time. However, basic differences between our personal and professional relations are as follows: Relations at workplace are time-bound [...]

If you’ve ever posted your resume on sites such as Monster, CareerBuilder, HotJobs, or Craigslist, you’ve probably received emails in response to your resume, no matter how highly targeted your resume was written, or at the other end of the spectrum, how badly it was written. In fact, sometimes it doesn’t even have to be a resume! I had a [...]

“Hey Jim,” a Recruiter said.“Mmm-hmm…,” I replied. I have a limited budget for posting jobs,” they said. “Steer me in the right direction.”So, I said… RealMatch. Then I got a Tweet from another Recruiter that said, “Jim, can you recommend a job board to me? I have some jobs to post, but not a lot of cash.”To which I replied… [...]

The Labor Department recently announced that 467,000 jobs were cut in June, driving the unemployment rate up to a 26-year high of 9.5 percent. For the recently unemployed as well as recent college graduates the question begs: What and where are the jobs? Here are four areas that are projected to see growth even in the tough economy: Green Jobs. [...]

Linkedin endorsements can get you sued? In episode #128, Jim Stroud and Karen Mattonen discuss a whole bunch of stuff, the least of which: Did you know that leaving a positive endorsement for someone on Linkedin could get you in trouble? Howzabout proudly proclaiming, “I don’t care about breaking the law! I have errors and omissions insurance!!! (Umm… okay) Finally, [...]

Human resources professionals, recruiters and others who interview job applicants seem to have a fondness for that much-dreaded question about how you would describe your own weaknesses. As much as those hiring love to ask the question, almost every job seeker hates to answer it. Describe your weaknesses is a double-edged sword of a question. There is no one right [...]

I was searching through the resumes posted on Craigslist today to find candidates for a sales position we have available. I found some pretty pathetic attempts from job seekers looking for jobs, so I thought I’d share in the hopes that you won’t make the same mistakes these people are making, just in the headlines alone! Some of the top [...]

I get phonecalls (a lot of calls and tweets, but mostly emails) from Recruiters looking for opportunities. As everyone knows, its not too pretty out there. Well, I wanted to give an assist where I can so I decided to do a bit of research. This is by NO MEANS a scientific survey, just a bit of a glance at [...]

Introduction We each belong to an entire collection of cultures, which includes, national cultures, subcultures (based on regions, tribes etc), organizational or corporate cultures, industry cultures, professional or functional cultures. For that reason, culture can be defined as a shared system of values, beliefs, and attitudes. It affects our own actions and the way we distinguish the actions of others. [...]