A hot topic in recent months is the growing number of “ban the box” legislation.

Increase your employee productivity immediately!

Most teams miss a deadline now and then. But if people on your team are regularly blowing deadlines, there’s a problem that you need to address – before it causes work to blow up too.

Do you know your Why? The purpose, cause, or belief that inspires you to do what you do. Simon Sinek's short video How great leaders inspire action  can help you learn your Why.

Today’s small business environment is tough, highly competitive and more challenging than ever.

There’s that project you’ve left on the backburner – the one with the deadline that’s growing uncomfortably near.  And there’s the client whose phone call you really should return – the one that does nothing but complain and eat up your valuable time.  Wait, weren’t you going to try to go to the gym more often this year?

Some mistakes are easy to recognize – you usually know if you flubbed a presentation or upset a client. But others fly beneath the radar, and those are often more dangerous, since you don’t know that you’re making them. Here are three bad mistakes you might be making at work – and they’re common enough that chances are good that you’re guilty of at least one of these!

As the up-and-coming generation of business leaders, millennials should be making concerted efforts early on in their careers to get the most out of their job experiences. Here are the top 10 resolutions millennials should make at work in 2014.

The Key Characteristics of Generation Z and how they’ll impact talent management

Go on enough job interviews and you'll quickly learn most interviewers ask the same things. But what are employers really looking for when they ask things like "Where do you see yourself five years from now?"

Social media is like a long-term relationship—the more you put into it, the more you’ll get out of it.

Still hiding in Facebook's shadows? Not for much longer.

The company announced Thursday it is officially axing a privacy setting that allowed people to hide their profiles from other users in Facebook's search field.

(Reuters) - U.S. private employers added a fewer-than-expected 166,000 jobs in September, according to Wednesday data from a payrolls processor, underscoring steady but still sluggish growth in the labor market.

The United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is making certain enhancements to its E-Verify Tentative Non-Confirmation (TNC) Communication process, effective September 9, 2013.

Employers who use an electronic I-9 solutions with direct E-Verify access will not be affected by these changes, at this time or the near future. However, those users who directly log-in to E-Verify and use the system will be affected immediately and may want to find out specific details on the USCIS web sit

Here are five signs you're getting in your own way to success and how to move over and let yourself be the best you can be:

Management is all about connecting with the people on your team. So how do you effectively manage a team? With common knowledge, of course. These are a few back-to-basics rules that will help you develop management skills that really matter.

Your company logo is talking. What do you want it to say? Check out our guide to designing the perfect company logo!

Labor Day, the first Monday in September, is dedicated to the social and economic achievements of American workers. It constitutes a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of our country.

There’s no denying that employee engagement has become one of the HR buzz words of our time.

Super article this week by Jason Nazar

I started Docstoc in my 20’s, made the cover of one of those cliché “20 Under 20” lists, and today I employ an amazing group of 20-somethings.

Not many teams are great at both results and relationships.

Patrick Lencioni, in The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, lays out a simple but powerful framework for high-performance teaming that blends results and relationships. How does your team measure up?

Many new leaders are thrust into supervisory positions quickly, with no real management training to speak of.  So as you would expect, they make lots of mistakes.  Here are a few of the most common.  Hopefully, just being aware of them will help you and your colleagues do things differently!

Takeaways

•     Leonardo da Vinci wrote the first professional resume in 1482.

•     Between 1930 and 1960, resumes went from being on scraps of paper to being expected – an institution.

•     In the 1980s, VHS resumes were used!

•     In 1983, Microsoft Word was launched – creating a new template for resumes.

•     Video resumes hit YouTube in 2007.

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