If you are an employer take my advice immediately: obtain Employment Practices Liability Insurance, today!!!!!!!!! You already have Workers Compensation, Liability, Errors and Ommissions and many other types of insurance to reduce your risk; however… Read More »Firing an Employee: Do This First!!!!
OK, admit it: coming back to work after New Years Eve is the hardest week of the year. After all, New Years Eve, Holidays and of course the great American holiday of Thanksgiving just came and… Read More »How to Be Productive at Work The First Week of 2021 by Bernie Reifkind
So here comes a new year with all the hopes and aspirations that a new year brings. What are you going to do this year to further your career? Why didn’t you do it this year? You procrastinated.
1. Make your highest and best offer first. If you are really serious about hiring an outstanding employee, then nothing can be more insulting to an employee than a “low ball offer.” If your intent is to make a low offer and then raise it if the person declines, you have already created an adversarial tone. If you are serious, make a serious offer.
“In many cases an insulting array of documentation that is used to escape the possibility of a mistake in the hiring process.”
If you want to compete in the business world, you need world class talent. How do you find the very best available talent, right now? Certainly not by using an outside recruitment firm. After all… Read More »Why Employers Should Never Use An Outside Recruitment Firm
If you type the following into google search ” the most googled employment topic” your first few results will look like this……well you get the picture.
Nothing relevant to actual employment topics. Google is arguably the most influential search engine or (company for that matter) on the planet but unless you are specific in your search, you are likly to end up with gobledigook that have no revelence.
If you really want to screw up your life (and your living) you need to avoid the following: 5 worst hiring mistakes: 1. Hiring a family member. This is almost always a recipe for disaster. … Read More »The 5 Worst Hiring Mistakes by Bernie Reifkind
Hey Employers: are you walking around in a consious coma? Are you just going through the motions? Are you hanging on to dead beat employees that you should have fired years ago? Wake up! What are… Read More »Conscious Coma By Bernie Reifkind
Oh…….do I have your attention? Yes of course, that should last for………….another 9 seconds…………..until you become distracted again. Hey…………I’m over here.
Wait a minute………… did something just move? Did you say something? I’m sorry I am organizing my 6500 songs on my ipod, at my desk, pretending to work.
Oh that’s right, I only really care about 40 of those songs. Wait, I just got an email that I have to respond to. Hang on………….Ok, I’m back.
Oh yes, back to my ipod…………I’ve been thinking that maybe it’s time to do a little bit of work. Hang on, I have to reply to a text ……………..gosh, I am the worst typer………….hang on……………ok, I’m back.
I swear, something just moved. Anyways, I need to get back to my work but I am hungry. I think I will rifle through my desk to see if I have any left over snacks from last week.