by Ira Wolfe | Mar 16, 2014 | HR Articles
By Ira S Wolfe Appeared in Business2Business, June 2008 The alarm that has been ringing in the ears of senior managers and business owners lately has become louder and more painful as they see retirements and job-hopping drain their organizational “brain power.” It...
by Ira Wolfe | Feb 16, 2014 | HR Articles
The joke goes something like: Contractor: You need to replace your roof. It has a leak. Homeowner: It’s not that bad. It only leaks when it rains. And so goes the labor shortage. With the unemployment rate threatening to blast through the six percent ceiling, the...
by Ira Wolfe | Dec 20, 2013 | HR Articles
Twas two weeks before New Year and all through the place, Each manager was asking “Where will we find our next ace?” Technology grew this year at a numbing pace, Forcing many companies to automate, heating up the job skills race. Productivity improved...
by Ira Wolfe | Sep 12, 2013 | HR Articles, Millennials
Some 87% of companies reported it costs between $15,000 and $25,000 to replace each Millennial employee they lose, according to “The Cost of Millennial Retention” survey of hundreds of HR professionals conducted by Millennial Branding, a Gen Y research and...
by Ira Wolfe | Aug 26, 2013 | Career Development, Future of Work, HR Articles, In The News
120 Million Workers Need Retraining, Less Than 1/2 CEOs Are Prepared Take Our 30-Second Survey | Is Your Job in Jeopardy? This should be enough to scare the SHIFT out of you!The imperative for this change is imminent. What once was declared a “war for talent” has...
by Ira Wolfe | Aug 14, 2013 | Hiring Process, HR Articles, Podcasts
The cost of employee turnover is significant and cannot be ignored. Management goes ballistic when inventory is lost or materials are wasted. But when it comes to employees, bad hires and poor performance are tolerated and even excused as if the voluntary or...
