Lilly Chesser
Posts by Lilly Chesser:
Paid In Arrears: Pros And Cons
Summary. Payment in arrears refers to a payment arrangement where an individual or business pays for goods or services after they have been provided. It is the opposite of payment in advance, in which payment is made before goods or services have been delivered. Payment in arrears is a common, widespread practice in many industries […]
What Does A Chamber Of Commerce Do For Businesses
Summary. Chambers of Commerce are associations that represent and advocate for the interests of businesses in a particular locality or region. They promote economic growth, create jobs, and improve the business climate. Chambers of commerce provide benefits such as networking opportunities, advocacy for business-friendly policies and regulations, economic research and analysis, and education and training […]
How Many Payroll Weeks In A Year?
Summary. The payroll year is a 52-week period (depending on payroll schedule) that companies use to calculate and report employee earnings and taxes and is usually aligned with the calendar year. Payroll weeks or pay periods are specific timeframes in which employers calculate and pay employees for their work, with common intervals including weekly, bi-weekly, […]
How To Write A Job Offer Letter Email (With Template + Sample)
Summary. A job offer email should be sent after a verbal offer is made to a candidate and agreed upon by both parties. The email should be sent as soon as possible after the verbal offer. Your job offer email should be clear, concise, and contain all of the necessary information that the candidate needs […]
How To Avoid Workplace Retaliation
Summary. Workplace retaliation refers to an employer taking negative action against an employee as a response to the latter’s participation in a legally protected activity. Such activities can include filing a complaint with a government agency, reporting harassment, or speaking out against discrimination. Retaliation can take many forms, including termination, reduction in hours or pay, […]
How To Sponsor Someone For An H-1B Visa
Summary. An H-1B visa is a non-immigrant visa that enables U.S. companies to employ foreign workers in specialty occupations that demand theoretical or technical expertise. The visa is issued for up to three years with the possibility of an extension. To be eligible for an H-1B visa, a worker must have a bachelor’s degree or […]
How To Manage Inventory As A Small Business
Summary. Inventory management is the practice of overseeing and controlling a company’s inventory levels to ensure that sufficient stock is available to meet customer demand while minimizing the costs associated with holding and managing inventory. Effective inventory management requires a deep understanding of a company’s supply chain, demand patterns, and sales history, as well as […]
How To Handle Conflict At Work
Summary. Conflict is a part of every organization, though not all conflicts are created equal. Conflict can be a starting point for growth and change if it is managed properly. However, if improperly managed, conflict can quickly lead to a toxic work environment. Whether a conflict is personal, structural, or values-based, there are some universal […]
How To Deal With Microaggressions In The Workplace
Summary. Microaggressions in the workplace are subtle behaviors or comments that marginalize individuals based on their identity. To address them, witnesses should speak up and address the behavior directly and respectfully while also offering support to the impacted individual. Individuals on the receiving end should assertively express their feelings and concerns and seek support from […]
Outsourcing Services: What Outsourcing Is And How To Do It
Summary. Outsourcing is a business strategy that involves contracting out certain services or tasks to third-party providers. Outsourcing enables companies to leverage the expertise and resources of external vendors, allowing them to focus on their core competencies and reduce operational costs. Some benefits of outsourcing business services include access to specialized expertise, improved efficiency, reduced […]
How to Get an 8x Response Rate to Your Cold Emails to Passive Candidates
The average cold email response rate is about 5%-8%! To put that in perspective, you need to reach out to 20 people to get one response. The key part of this statistic here is “average” and being “average” is not what you want. It’s possible to be an exceptional cold emailer and get a 40-50% […]
How to Understand a Candidate’s True Intentions When Hiring
As hiring manager, you come across the problem of employee motivation time and again. Employers do their best to keep employees motived and productive. It’s not that hard to do when working with long-term employees. But new entries are apples of another tree: managers don’t yet know them, so it becomes a resource- and time-consuming […]
8 Tips for Managers to Minimize Employee Turnover
Employee turnover is devastating to any company’s productivity, workplace morale, and bottom line. Here are eight strategies managers can use to retain more employees.
7 Things Hiring Managers Should Never Forget When it Comes to Salary Negotiations
Most organizations would pay top dollar willingly if an employee is a befitting choice and brings value to the company. However, salary negotiations are still going to be an essential part of the recruitment process. Recruitment managers have the crucial responsibility of negotiating a compensation that’s suitable for both the candidate as well as the […]
4 Reasons Why Candidates Have a Terrible Hiring Experience
Brands today are heavily focused on the overarching experience that their business creates, and for good reason. A positive user experience has been proven to impact sales and customer loyalty, which is why many companies are making it their top marketing priority. However, one experience that is often overlooked is that of the candidates you […]
5 Hints From Cognitive Psychology That Will Draw Attention to Your Content
It’s often a challenge to be creative, but when it comes to your content, it’s been shown that creativity is critical in innovating your business and developing new strategies. In this post, our guest author explains how cognitive psychology is directly linked to grabbing your audience’s attention and differentiating you from your competitors.
8 Advantages Of Social Media Recruiting
Discover the advantages of using social media as a recruitment strategy, including its ability to reach a large and diverse pool of candidates, cost-effectiveness, and the ability to target specific demographics of candidates.
5 Signs Poor Management is Ruining Employee Retention
The cost of a new employee is estimated at between six and nine months' salary. So it's important to recognise the most telling signs of poor employee management.
The Workplace of the Future – How to Hire and What to Invest In
Recruiting in the 21st century is a complex endeavor. In this article, our guest author acknowledges some of the changes that have occurred and provides pointers on how to successfully manage these changes effectively.
Why Candidates May Reject Your Job Offers?
Hiring the best candidates doesn’t always come down to selecting the best of the best. Often, it’s ensuring that the very best select you! In this post, our author spells out how to get the best talent to make sure they select your company in a competitive environment.
How to Practice Self-Care When Working Remotely
It’s very common for businesses today to adopt a “remote working” setup, but for employees working in this environment, they need to ensure they are practicing self-care. Read below on 5 tips on how remote employees can look after themselves.
5 Ways Jewellery Can Help You Negotiate in the Workplace
Do you want to be seen as a peer or as a superior? What is the best visual way to highlight your professional aptitude and convey the right message? Let’s dive deeper into the exploration of how to harness the powerful language of jewellery.
3 Biggest Mistakes Managers Make with Remote Teams
With modern workplaces becoming distributed and workforces more commonly being located globally, managing remote teams can be challenging. In this post, our author lists 3 tips on how to successfully manage remote teams.
3 Ways to Make the Most of Employee Feedback
In this post, our guest blogger explains why it is important to take time to listen to what employees have to say about your business!
How to Establish a Great Brand Reputation that Attracts Better Talent
We all know it’s important to present your company in the best light. But often, this can be ignored when it comes to promoting how your company is perceived to potential new employees. This is called “employee branding,” and it’s important. In this article, our returning guest blogger tells us how to best position your business to attract the very best talent!
How to Retain Top Performers When They Hit the Top of Their Pay Grade
If you can't retain your top performers when their salary hits a ceiling, then you're in for a tough time. In this post, guest blogger Max Woolf reveals how to keep your top talent on board when their salary ultimately gets maxed out.
Why a Strong Digital Adoption Strategy is the Solution to Your Worst Employee Productivity Problems
Productivity problems are often times the result of deeply systemic issues within an organization. In this guest blog post Manish Dudharejia discusses some of the big ones and how a reliable digital adoption strategy can in fact be the answer.
HR Tips: Preparing for the Legalization of Marijuana
According to research, 71% of employers in the USA aren’t able to handle cannabis legalization in the workplace yet. In this guest post, Mary Walton addresses the legalization of cannabis and provides some great tips for employers and HR professionals.
5 Ways You Can Use Instagram for Better Hiring
While most companies still use Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn as their main sourcing channels, some are starting to utilize Instagram as a sourcing platform. Here are 5 ways that Instagram is also gaining traction as an efficient recruiting platform.
5 of the Smartest Ways to Build Trust with Your Top Candidates
Establishing trust with a candidate can be tough. Fortunately, there are plenty of ways to proactively improve your brand reputation and create a better candidate experience that builds trust over time.
6 Uses of AI in the Recruitment Process
Recruiting new employees can be a challenging task. With AI performing the tedious paperwork and other repetitive admin tasks, you’ll have more time to focus on picking the right candidate for the job.
Content Tips And Other Tools For Recruitment Marketing
To succeed in your recruitment marketing efforts, you need to create engaging content, so that you can attract the ideal talent. To get started, check out these content tips and other recommendations from guest blogger Luisa Brenton.
Creative Keystones to Building the Best Team
Good marketing comes from building great teams. Honestly, good creative work — marketing or no — relies on both talent and teamwork. In a world where freelancers, gig-style deals, and online help are all too easy to come by, why even fuss over assembling your own crew anyway? The answer is simple: creative collaboration rests […]
Hiring Machine Learning and AI Engineers
The fourth industrial revolution is centered around the tech industry. Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are skills that are highly in demand. However, there is a shortage of these highly sought-after skills. Because these skills are so new, many potential trailblazers of tomorrow are still in college studying to become AI and ML […]
3 Major Drawbacks of Hiring for “Culture Fit” Alone
Finding new talent and filling vacant positions is a major undertaking for any team. Although the job market is highly competitive, many companies are still struggling to find adequate candidates to bring onboard. According to CV Library’s report, nearly three out of four hiring teams state that finding qualified talent to fulfil their job openings […]
7 Employee Retention Tips for Winning the War for Talent
Your employees are the building blocks of your business. No matter how big or small, your company needs the best possible people to support your idea, share your vision and work by your side to achieve greatness. Without a quality team of people, you won’t be able to reach far from the starting point and […]
5 Jobs AI Might Replace in the Near Future
Editor’s Note: This is a guest post Larry Reed – technical writer with DesignRush. His opinions are his own. Artificial intelligence is poised to become the technology that will define our age. What was once little more than a theoretical notion used by scientists in research labs, is now becoming a part of our everyday reality – […]
6 Common Contributors to Uncomfortably High Employee Turnover Rates
Good talent is hard to find, and in some cases, it is even harder to keep. High turnover rates within a company can not only slow down the process of advancement and success, it can also cost a business thousands of dollars for each lost employee. It costs an average of six to nine months’ […]
Why Employee Handbooks Lead to Happier Employees
If there was one simple thing you could do to have happier and more productive employees, would you do it? Having a well-written employee handbook, it turns out, can be a wonderful recruitment and retention tool for your business. 1. A handbook smooths out the on-boarding process Starting at a new company can be stressful […]
5 Reasons to Promote More Workplace Flexibility
When it comes to workplace flexibility, we are used to hearing employees asking for this type of company culture. Although their reasons seem pretty one-sided and gravitate around work/life balance, reducing the cost of transportation, work attire, etc. we have to ask if there is anything employers could get out of that kind of deal. […]
7 Ways to Deal with Low Employee Morale
Every organization goes through tough days where everything seems to go wrong, but ideally things get back on track quickly. There are also going to be some employees who are simply unhappy. The problem is when those feelings of unhappiness and dissatisfaction are far-reaching and don’t seem to go away. If this seems familiar, you […]
How Blockchain Technology Will Find You the Right Employees
You might have thought that blockchain technology can only be used for bitcoin, but, in reality, there is so much more to it. One unexpected use is in employment and recruiting. Blockchain can play a role in your finding valued employees and ensuring that the recruiting and hiring process goes smoothly. Choosing the right employee […]
7 Ways Recruiters Can Create Engaging LinkedIn Profiles
The headline of a LinkedIn profile is critical. This is because it’s not only an excellent place for a person to add career-targeted key terms, but it also shows up many times in countless important LinkedIn locations like messages, search results, connection invitations and employee listings. It goes without saying that your LinkedIn profile can […]
HR is Moving Very Fast. Are You Keeping up to Date?
Recent whitepapers and studies are showing just how fast HR is now moving. With the increased adoption of technology and people analytics by leading organisations, the role of an HR professional has been expanded to making sure they are aware of recent studies and actively researching new technologies. Over the last couple of months there […]
Soar, Swim or Sink? Five Helpful Tips to Networking Success
Why is it that you see some of your team members soaring in their careers, while you see others only swim … and many sink? Why is it that some of your people have that ‘it ’ factor from the get go, but in others it simply just does not quite develop despite all your […]
7 Tips to Consider as Your Small Business Grows
Most business owners strive to enter the business expansion stage as quickly as possible, yet only some of them are really prepared for it. There are many dangers that go along with business growth and being aware of them is what can make the difference between succeeding and failing. The fact is that more than […]
Hired By Robots: Why Most Americans Are Unhappy About Hiring Process Automation
Why is it that so many Americans are against automated hiring processes and how can we turn them into our benefits instead?
Criminal Background Checks: What Employers And Recruiters Should Know
Unfortunately, some candidates lie. And your interview skills may not be enough to get them to tell the truth. Criminal background checks can reveal what type of people have applied for your position.
How to Identify the Warning Signs Your Company Has a Toxic Culture
Toxic cultures can appear in any company - and both business leaders and employees can be to blame. What are the signs that your company has a toxic culture and how can you prevent it in the workplace?
9 Ways to Improve Your Email Communication to Candidates
When it comes to recruiting candidates, communication is critical. Here are 9 tips to ensure your email communication to potential candidates is more effective.
7 Ways to Effectively Communicate With Remote Teams
These 7 steps will show you how to improve your communication and improve your productivity if you look after remote teams.
How Staff Scheduling Has Evolved Through the Ages
Automation and modern technology provide avenues for companies to ultimately increase their ROI. Here’s how automation has evolved since the first staff scheduling algorithm was invented.
7 Tips For Building a Winning Marketing Team
This post will provide you with some powerful insights around the foundation, structure and the growth of your marketing team.
7 Ways to Increase Employee Productivity
Employee productivity is a quite complex concept. Your job as a business leader is to create a suitable environment in which your employees are most productive.
6 Things You Never Knew About Mentoring
Mentoring is experiencing a revitalisation so here is a quick rundown of 6 things you may not have realised about mentoring today.
6 Must Read Books for Every Recruiter
On Amazon alone, you'll find more than 7,000 books and publications related to the recruiting profession alone. Here are 6 must read books for every recruiter.
8 Ways to Prevent Ruining Your Productivity
Procrastination is very common. We all do it at some point. In reality, we can improve our productivity by focusing on what precisely ruins it.
7 Ways to Provide Your Interns With a Valuable Experience
Whether paid or unpaid, or simply providing extra experience for interns to place on their resumes, the internship program should be a valuable one.
5 Reasons Why You Should Eliminate Chairs From Team Meetings
Do standing meetings help teams accomplish more, or are they a corporate fad to accompany the latest set of fashionable buzzwords?
What You Need to Know When Recruiting Generation Z
You thought the Millennial crowd was an alien breed, and now you’re about to meet an entire generation that will tip the scales. Welcome to Generation Z.
How to Build Your Employer Brand
Here are three fundamentals to creating an employer brand that is authentic, enduring, and extremely effective.
Startup Stories: How RedBalloon Got Off The Ground
RedBalloon is regularly rated one of Australia's ‘Great Places to Work’. Here's an inside look at the story that keeps them there.
Startup Stories: How Airtasker Made it Happen
Here's a great example of how two startups helped each other grow, by staying connected in their local startup community.
Startup Stories: How Mamamia Got Going
Mia Freedman, Founder of Mamamia, shares her story on leaving the glamourous world of magazines and establishing Australia's first online community for women.
Startup Stories: How Carman’s Kitchen Became a $50 Million Business
Carolyn Creswell, Founder of Carman's Kitchen, shares her story on building a $50 million business and successfully maintaining a work-life balance (including 4 kids!).
Pre-employment processes: The upsides of planning ahead
Whether you are replacing an existing employee or hiring an additional one, the overriding objective is to not only maintain but improve outcomes within your business. In addition to this all PCBU’s (read employers) have a legal obligation to comply with work health and safety standards. It is a wise investment therefore, to ensure that […]