A rapidly growing business is a wonderful “challenge” with which to be faced, especially in the current economic environment; however, it does pose an oftentimes vexing question, “What are the most critical new positions to fill first?” And, a closely related follow-up question might be “What types of experience, knowledge, skills and abilities will be required for those positions?”
Archive for May, 2010
Investing in the Right Positions When It’s Time to Grow
Tuesday, May 25th, 2010
You are Invited to our HR Best Practices Roundtable
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010Resourceful HR recently took an inside look into the Northwest’s top industries’ HR practices and are eager to share the results from our study with you. Join survey participants and guests on Tuesday, May 25 to share, learn and gain insight into leading organizations’ HR practices. If you can’t attend this event we encourage you to share your best practices by posting a comment below.
You can also view all the results from the study in our article. The article provides an overview of successful employee on-boarding and communication strategies companies employ as well as innovative recruiting practices, what to ask to create a strategic workforce and succession plan and much more.
Event Details:
Please come join us for coffee, pastries, networking and moderated discussion.
Date: Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Time: 7:30 AM to 9:00 AM
Location: 600 University Street, Two Union Square, Suite 5121
Seattle, WA
Hosts: Jennifer Olsen and David Black, Esq.
RSVP: http://events.linkedin.com/HR-Best-Practices-Round-Table/pub/316329
Leveraging Social Media In Your Organization
Friday, May 14th, 2010Since the advent of the printing press, it seems that there will always be someone out there who will find a way to misuse technology. It seems like just yesterday we were dreaming about how next-generation communication tools like cellular phones, e-mail and the Internet were going to revolutionize the way we do business. As employers, we were just getting comfortable overcoming all of the learning curves and pitfalls when not even ½ a generation later, along come Blogs, Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn….Oh My! Welcome to the Web 2.0 age: a period of where the Internet has become exponentially and instantaneously interactive.
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