Are CEOs allowed to like pink? Or glitter and glam? Do you have to dress a certain way? How serious do you have to act to run a company? Isn’t when you are serious more important? I guess Steve Jobs and his famous turtlenecks gave rise to thousands of CEOs who don’t wear a suit, […]
April is Stress Awareness Month. There are very serious stressful situations that far too many are facing right now and it’s important that we’re aware of the ways that you can combat and alleviate stress. If you find yourself with serious negative feelings or prolonged depression, please reach out for help. But there are plenty […]
You’ve just hired a Pharmacovigilance Officer or finally filled all your open QC positions. You’re ecstatic! It wasn’t easy to find these talented people, so you want to make sure that you don’t lose them. What’s one of the best predictors of retention success? The employee’s onboarding experience. Companies that excel here retain 91 percent […]
Take a moment and think about your favorite song. What makes it so memorable? Which lyrics stick out in your head? Why does it stand out from the millions of other songs out there? A great resume is like a great song from a talented musical artist: it captures attention, it informs, and it sticks […]
February is American Heart Month, our annual reminder to take care of our hearts because, frankly, heart disease is the leading cause of death for men, women, and people of most racial and ethnic groups in the U.S. The statistics go on from there and they are all just as scary. Check out the CDC […]
Could you run your company without your employees? Working conditions in manufacturing environments can be dangerous, placing workers at a higher risk of severe injury compared to other industries. If you fail to take the right precautions to protect your workers, then your company productivity will suffer quickly. A worker doesn’t even have to become […]
People, whether a recruiter or a candidate, have one very important thing in common – they don’t want to waste their time. Yet neither can easily escape their fate. Recruiters are destined to review thousands of resumes and job seekers must plod through hundreds of job postings. Neither have time or patience for nonsense, yet […]
Six months into our giant work-from-home experiment, data is pouring in and analysts are attempting to make sense of and learn from what it shows. And whew, does it show a lot! Much of it is positive, some negative, and all of it enlightening. One attention-grabbing headline is that we are working more hours – […]
Video calls. These past few months, we’ve all been participating in more of them than ever. The pandemic has made it nearly inevitable between our work and personal lives being upended. Like it or not, for the foreseeable future video calls will be more abundant. In particular, the use of video calls for interviewing and […]