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Recruitment can be a time consuming and costly process, which incentivizes business owners to make data-driven hiring decisions that can be defended. Looking for a licensed dental hygienist? A professional licensure check is just one click away. That’s the easy part to vet. More challenging is making determinations about more subjective factors. To that end, though both skill-based and culture-based factors are important to investigate during the candidacy process, hiri

Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) refers to the outsourcing of certain business tasks to a third-party provider. BPO serves a wide range of industries, though its inception began in manufacturing. The most significant reason businesses utilize BPO is the freedom it offers your workforce to focus on activities that build your competitive advantage. Rather than expend your efforts on managing facets of your business that do not directly result in customer sales and revenue gen

Throughout history, companies have utilized mergers and acquisitions (M&A) to consolidate their businesses for a number of reasons. Whether it’s an opportunity to gain new product lines, customer bases, human capital, or even just to absorb some of the competition, M&As have been carried out for decades. In 2022 alone, over 18,000 M&A deals closed in the United States. Yet according to a recent report by Harvard Business Review, between 70-90% of M&A transactions fail. Why?

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Whatever you want to call it, companies across the country are faced with a dilemma. How can they attract, hire, and retain employees? In February 2021, Anthony Klotz, a management professor at Texas A&M University, started using the term Great Resignation to describe the large numbers of people quitting their jobs. In April 2021, close to 4 million Americans had quit their job. This trend has not stopped. The Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey reported that in the eight

Fitness classes. Nutrition challenges. Team building exercises. All of these are great examples of workplace wellness programs designed to help support both the physical and mental wellbeing of employees. Effective wellness programs not only help employees, but they also improve engagement, increase overall productivity, and can help with recruitment and retention efforts. But there is a new wellness challenge for today’s employers. FlexJobs reports that that remote work has

Regardless of the industry, businesses today cannot risk business continuity due to the loss of a key contributor. Monica Siciliano, Partner at De Novo HRC, notes “When you lose an employee, either through resignation or retirement, the company loses the institutional knowledge the employee takes with them. The company also incurs costs to recruit, hire, and train a replacement.” Of course, not every disruption is permanent, some are temporary, such as sick vacation leave.

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When a new employee is hired at a company, they likely start their new position with some of the skills, knowledge, and abilities (SKAs) needed to be successful in their new role. But that’s only the starting point. What is your organization doing to contribute to the continued training and development of all employees, both new and tenured? Many companies struggle with employee engagement and retention, and a primary reason for low engagement is a lack of development oppo

When people work together for long periods of time and get to know each other they often become accustomed to the behaviors of others, even when those behaviors are discriminatory or harassing. We often hear people say, “that’s just the way they are” or “you’ll get used to them, they really didn’t mean anything by it”; as if by knowing someone, it excuses the behavior. But think about the following case. A newer employee has several interactions with a senior level executive.

The pandemic forced many organizations to adopt remote work policies for those employees who were not deemed essential workers. While there were many workers who remained on the “front lines”, (medical professionals and food service industry professionals come to mind), this blog will focus on companies that are in the process of bringing their employees back to the office. As a rising percentage of the population becomes vaccinated against COVID-19 and restrictions are slowl

If your organization was hiring before the pandemic, attracting quality talent to fill open positions may have been one of the main challenges you faced. The low unemployment rate certainly made the competition to hire the best talent expensive and intense. And while it may appear that rising unemployment rates would favor employers who are hiring, recruitment is still challenging. Some of these challenges are new, but old challenges also remain. The recruiting process: The

Daily demonstrations, marches, and protests have continued over the last several weeks after the killing of George Floyd. There has been an unprecedented public outcry not only against police brutality, but also against the many ways systemic racism is deeply embedded in our country and others. All of us here at De Novo HRC have been trained to be advocates for inclusion and diversity. It is past time for us to do more. The recent demonstrations have brought people together

What would happen to your business if a key member of your staff announced their retirement or resignation? Do you have a succession plan in place? An important part of managing risk and running a resilient business is being prepared for critical roles becoming vacant. A study done by the Corporate Leadership Council reveals that 76% of companies are less than confident in their ability to fill vacancies in leadership roles in the next 3-5 years. Succession planning is the

In a past blog we spoke about the connection between HR and marketing. (Click here to read that blog.) Today we’d like to speak specifically about the connection between marketing and recruiting. To think of marketing as only a way to draw in potential customers or clients is short-sighted. At no time has information been more accessible to the masses than today. The internet and specifically social media allows not only potential customers to learn about your company, but al

We are constantly told that employee engagement is critical to a company’s overall success but it seems that many companies still struggle with providing a workplace environment to support that. A recent Gallup survey suggested that more than 80% of people are not engaged at their jobs. According to The Engagement Institute this lost productivity from disengaged employees costs the country up to $550 billion each year. Given that people in the U.S. spend more time than ever a

As a business owner or manager, it is important that your employees work together well. Team building activities can help build communication, boost morale, and spark creativity. It can also help to identify strengths and weaknesses within teams and provide avenues to correct them. To ensure the effectiveness of team building exercises, you need to determine what your objective is. Most often it will fall into three areas: Relationship Building: The well-being of your empl

According to the Health Enhancement Research Organization, more than 90% of business leaders say that promoting wellness can have a positive impact on employee productivity and performance. It is no secret that healthy and happy employees help to create a productive and positive work environment. Two of the resources that employers can make available to their employees are Employee Assistance Programs (EAPs) and employee sponsored wellness programs. While some people may use

The cybersecurity threat is ever-changing and it’s not a question of “if” your organization is going to be the victim of a cyber-attack, but “when”. More than 70% of cyber-attacks specifically target small businesses. Approximately 60% of small and midsized businesses do not recover from a cyber-attack and go out of business after six month. At the same time, 95% of all network security attacks can be attributed to employees who unwittingly help hackers access networks.