by Ira Wolfe | Jan 29, 2013 | HR Articles, Leadership
Employers, workers, and politicians need to come to grip with reality – the definition of work is changing. The theme of denial about joblessness is no longer effective. In fact, it’s destructive. Creating new jobs that match the skills levels of the unemployed...
by Ira Wolfe | Jan 14, 2013 | HR Articles
Despite a growing reliance on data and evidence-based decision making for planning and forecasting, sales, marketing, quality control, and safety, many employers still do not take analytics seriously when it comes to human resources. A new survey by ACT Bridge found...
by Ira Wolfe | Aug 3, 2012 | HR Articles, Recruiting Process, Recruitment
Your business lives or dies on your ability to find, hire and keep qualified, competent and engaged employees. But that job is getting harder, particularly on the recruiting side, according to a recent survey. While most HR professionals say that finding good job...
by Ira Wolfe | Aug 26, 2011 | HR Articles
No matter how much I try, I’m amazed each August when the Beloit College Mindset List is released. And this year’s list for the Class of 2015 is no exception. The list has been compiled since 1998 by Beloit’s former Public Affairs Director Ron Nief and Keefer...
by Ira Wolfe | Aug 17, 2011 | HR Articles
Did you know that there’s a 16.9 percent chance the kid who took your coffee order this morning was on some kind of illicit drug as he worked the cappuccino machine? Or that the guy who replaced your roof after the last storm had a 13.7 percent chance of being...
by Ira Wolfe | Jun 27, 2011 | HR Articles
With few exceptions, screening candidates has become a major problem for companies these days. An oversupply of unemployed candidates and unhappy workers seeking employment or better jobs is clogging up inboxes and bogging down productivity. The deluge of resumes, or...
