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Transform Your Employees into Passionate Advocates

By Rob Markey is co-author, with Fred Reichheld, of the book: The Ultimate Question 2.0: How Net Promoter Companies Thrive in a Customer-Driven World, just published by HBR Press. He is a partner in Bain & Company’s New York office and head of the firm’s global Customer Strategy and Marketing practice.

Employee happiness is becoming a hot topic among CEOs and in boardrooms, and it’s about time. The current issue ofHarvard Business Review, which includes a series of articles focused on employee happiness, is just one more sign of the growing recognition that happy, engaged employees are more productive and generate better outcomes for their companies. Continue reading

Comment la « mauvaise réputation » peut faire échouer un recrutement

La moitié des candidats à un emploi disent avoir renoncé à postuler auprès d’une entreprise après avoir lu des informations négatives à son sujet sur Internet; et 8% des recruteurs disent avoir écarté une candidature après avoir trouvé des informations négatives à son sujet sur Internet, selon un sondage réalisé (en ligne, bien sûr) par un site d’annonces d’emplois du 23 novembre 2010 au 9 janvier 2011 auprès de 2526 personnes déclarant rechercher un emploi et 379 recruteurs (en entreprise ou en cabinets de recrutement). Continue reading

Maybe You Should Interview For Grit, Zest, and Self-Control

by John Zappe

I’ve learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.

Jack Welch said that. It’s a good reminder of that old aphorism about learning from your mistakes.

What about those times when no one believes in you? When you fail when no one expected you to succeed anyway? Ted Turner has been there: ”All my life, people have said that I wasn’t going to make it.” Today, there’s no doubt that he’s made it, and like Welch, helped transform an industry. Continue reading