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Managing Hidden Hiring Costs: A Practical Guide
Efficient hiring, on-boarding, training, and retaining processes are crucial for minimizing associated costs, which accumulate quickly with frequent hiring. Key points include managing hidden hiring costs, creating comprehensive on-boarding checklists, investing in impactful training programs, and offering competitive benefits. Careful monitoring and strategic decisions in these areas enhance a company’s bottom line. Continue reading
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Tagged business development, consulting, cost control, Employee costs, Long Beach consulting, Skidmore Business Solutions, team building
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The 4 Phases Needed to Develop a Successful Business Plan
Develop a strategic plan that allows you to be intentional in your actions through introspection, idea generation, execution and ongoing evaluation, according to Channel Marketing Group’s David Gordon. AUTHOR: DAVID GORDON JANUARY 5, 2021 As they say in the military, … Continue reading
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11 Things You Should Never Say When Firing an Employee
Contributing author Jeff Haden is a writer, speaker, small business management expert, and Inc.’s most popular columnist. He’s the author of The Motivation Myth: How High Achievers Really Set Themselves Up to Win. LinkedIn Let’s be frank: Firing people sucks. I hated firing … Continue reading
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Tagged employee relations, Firing, Hiring, HR
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You’re probably answering these 5 common interview questions wrong
Some of the simplest interview questions are the trickiest. By Judith Humphrey – 4 minute Read No matter what sorts of jobs you applied for, you can expect certain interview questions to pop up again and again. But just because … Continue reading
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Five Things Every Recruiter Needs to Know About First Impressions
Gregory Lewis – December 2018 We all know you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. And we all do it anyway. For you, the impulse to make snap judgments may kick in the moment you lay your eyes on … Continue reading
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Tagged Hiring Practices, Jobs, People development, SkidBiz, Skidmore Business Solutions
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Women 50+: Declare Your Independence and Start a Business
8 tips on how to become a successful entrepreneur in midlife One of the best decisions I ever made was to declare my freedom from my full-time job as a columnist for a national newspaper and start my own business … Continue reading
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Tagged business development, Long Beach consulting, Skidmore Business Solutions, Start up, Strategic Vision
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What’s Keeping You From Starting a Business in Retirement?
By Jessica Thiefels December 29, 2016 Credit: Getty Images Part of the America’s Entrepreneurs Special Report Retirement is a great time to start a business, when you no longer have the financial, family and time obligations you once did. But … Continue reading
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Tagged Bob Skidmore, business development, Long Beach consulting, Skidmore Business Solutions, Start up
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Labor 2030: The Collision of Demographics, Automation and Inequality
February 07, 2018 Bain report By Karen Harris, Austin Kimson, Andrew Schwedel Executive summary Demographics, automation and inequality have the potential to dramatically reshape our world in the 2020s and beyond. Our analysis shows that the collision of these forces … Continue reading
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Tagged Long Beach consulting, Skidmore Business Solutions, Strategic Vision
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SWOT: Revisiting an old friend
It’s and old familiar friend and most will concede the SWOT analysis is invaluable when making a big decision to purchase a new business or restart an existing one. However, its great for making other strategic and tactical evaluations as well. It’s … Continue reading
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Five Finer Points of Succession Planning
From starting line-up to bench strength Succession planning is the backbone of strategic human resources management. Its primary purpose is to provide information for the identification of candidates for replacement of managerial and other “key and critical” positions within the organization. … Continue reading
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Tagged Business Solutions, consulting, Human Resources professional, Skidmore Business Solutions, Succession Planning
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