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5 Vital Steps in the Recruitment of a Board Member

By Recruiter.com

As a corporate recruiter your ability to recruit the top talent is pivotal to your future career success. And the tasks don’t come much tougher than recruitment of a new Board member.  Do a good job and you have an ally in the Company, your boss loves you for a day or two, and the President finally knows your name. It’s not a traditional recruitment process, and the stakes are higher.

Get it wrong? Well the consequences of bringing in the wrong person can ultimately lead to plummeting share values or misdirection of the entire company.  No pressure though… Continue reading →

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The risk of inappropriate use of social media: fair dismissal for inappropriate comments made on Facebook

By businessblogshub.com

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The risks of inappropriate use of social media. An employment tribunal has held that an employee was fairly dismissed for gross misconduct after she made inappropriate comments on Facebook about two of her customers, who had verbally abused and threatened her.

The law

Unfair dismissal

Under English law, employees have the right not to be unfairly dismissed. It is for the employer to establish that the reason for dismissal is a potentially fair reason. An employer must also follow a fair procedure for a dismissal to be fair. To establish fairness in a conduct dismissal case, an employer must be able to establish that, at the time of dismissal:

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The cost of bad recruitment

By Lisa Spiden 

When workers are not a good fit for the job, the cost to a business can be significant. Productivity may decline for a number of reasons and the impact in some cases may be long term. Here are just some of the ways that poor recruitment practices might impact a business financially:

  • Managers may have to spend more time supervising the new employee.
  • An employee with limited role-specific capabilities may take more time to become productive, and need extra training to build up their skills.
  • The performance of other workers within the team or department may be affected in the meantime.
  • Errors or delays may lead to client dissatisfaction.
  • Employee morale may be impacted.
  • Salary costs often represent a significant percentage of business overheads, so poor recruitment practices have the potential to make a big impact on profitability. Continue reading →
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Entretien d'embauche – comment trouver les meilleurs candidats

Par W.

Bien qu’en raison de la récession, des thèmes plutôt désagréables tels que le chômage partiel ou même la résiliation dominent en matière de ressources humaines, une chose est sûre: la crise ne changera rien au fait que l’économie souffre d’un manque de cadres et de spécialistes. Le défi reste le même: comment trouver le meilleur candidat pour votre entreprise, l’équipe concernée, la tâche spécifique?

Outre l’expertise professionnelle, les compétences dites transversales sont d’une importance capitale pour le succès des collaborateurs, des responsables de projet et des cadres. Etant donné qu’il permet d’évaluer d’une part les compétences spécialisées et d’autres part les compétences transversales, l’interview avec le candidat est toujours le principal instrument de sélection. Pourtant, les erreurs commises dans ce contexte sont nombreuses et lourdes de conséquences financières. Vous trouverez ci-après quelques idées pour augmenter la qualité de vos entretiens d’embauche.

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