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Any great team is comprised of members who work well together. That being said, the members of a great team are also diverse in their viewpoints, skills and experience.

Is quality of hire the only metric that matters? The quick answer is YES! If you want to take our word for it, we thank you for the vote of confidence, but you still need to know why it matters.

Hiring someone who is highly experienced can mean that they are very good at their job. It can also mean that they come with some hefty salary requirements. Hiring someone with potential can pay off in a big way, but it also has the potential to blow up in your face.

If you are lucky enough to have some real star employees on your team, you must get used to the fact that external recruiters and other businesses are aware of their presence as well. With the connectivity of social media, the superstar software developer doesn’t go “off the market” when they sign up with you and yours.

Being on the same page as your team is an essential skill for any good manager. When you communicate with your employees, you expect that the advice that you’ve given and the goals that you’ve set have been understood by your reporting staff.

Even though the recession is fading into somewhat of a bad memory, some effects of the global downturn still linger in the practices of many companies. Nowhere is this recession mindset stronger than with hiring.

As a soon-to-be college graduate, I encounter a broad and phenomenal anxiety in my peers whenever the conversations turns to what exactly is going to happen when we all eventually enter the real world.

Courteous, Respectful and Confidential: best practices in extending an offer of employment or making a job offer to a candidate.

Before you extend your next job offer, you need to make sure that the candidate’s personality will mesh well with the people that they’ll be working closely with, if not the company culture at large.

This has been quite the year. It started with optimism about what the new decade may bring and quickly turned into an unthinkable ordeal affecting all aspects of life. One reflection of the year in business can be found in our most popular blog posts from 2020.

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