Make The Right Hire

Written by Mike Burstein


Make The Right Hire

How many times have you had an employee quit and then immediately feel desperate to fillrepparttar slot that was just vacated? Unfortunately, it's an all too common occurrence in today's workplace.

There are a number of things you can do to help you get throughrepparttar 105391 trying times while hiring a replacement but there is alsorepparttar 105392 danger of hiring just about anyone that walks throughrepparttar 105393 door just to getrepparttar 105394 job filled. Don't do this!

Takerepparttar 105395 time necessary to hirerepparttar 105396 right person forrepparttar 105397 job. The actual cost of turnover is much greater than most employers realize sorepparttar 105398 first line of defense should always be to make every effort to retain your current employee, assuming he/she was performing their duties at an acceptable level.

If you aren't successful at keeping your present employee,repparttar 105399 following tips will help guide your selection:

1. Make sure that your other employees are aware ofrepparttar 105400 job opening. Referrals from current employees usually are better candidates than cold prospects coming throughrepparttar 105401 door.

2. Ifrepparttar 105402 position is above entry level, look at your current employees and determine if one of them would be a good applicant for promotion. It's much easier to fill entry-level jobs.

3. Be sure to use some type of general IQ or aptitude test. There is absolutely no way to sit and talk with an applicant and know whether they can actually read, write and perform mathematical calculations. (I always recommendrepparttar 105403 Wonderlic Personnel test for this purpose)

Do it Now!

Written by Rosalind Gardner


There is nothing more precious than time. Not money, nor love. Without time,repparttar others don't exist.

Knowing that, how do we spend our time? Do we recognize its unstoppable passage and makerepparttar 105388 most of each valuable moment?

Some do. Most of us, however, do not.

If we were to equate time spent frivolously with money lost, would we spend it more wisely?

Maybe - maybe not.

When I started my eBusiness in 1998, one ofrepparttar 105389 first things I did to get traffic was to submit my site to Yahoo! Back then, Yahoo! listings were free,repparttar 105390 directory was much smaller and getting huge traffic numbers from them was easy.

Pretty soon, my site was generating sales left, right and center.

So what did I do? Did I follow suit with another hot, marketable topic? Did I I repeatrepparttar 105391 process many more times to take advantage of Yahoo!'s free advertising and lack of competition? Did I solidify my future as an Internet marketer by building my nest and lining it with golden sites?

No, of course not!

I was too busy enjoyingrepparttar 105392 proceeds of my minimal labor - buying clothes, furniture, property, and a pretty new car. When I wasn't spending it at home, I was jetting off to exotic locations.

A couple years went by before it crossed my mind that more money would be even more fun, and that building another site or two would be an easy way to get more fun money.

By then however,repparttar 105393 Internet had changed. After site Number Two was built and ready for promotion, Yahoo! had started charging an annual listing fee of $299 for commercial sites. Thank goodness mine wasn't adult in nature - those were being charged $600 per year. Not just a one-time fee, but per year!

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