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Best Questions to Ask Candidates in an Interview
You’ll note that all the questions below are behavioural based questions; meaning that you are asking for examples of things that the candidate has done in their past jobs. These types of questions eliminate a “yes” or “no” response and provide you with insight into how the candidate has handled “real life” situations at work.
What are Personality Assessments and How Can They Help Your Team?
Personality assessments can give us the final green light we need when hiring new talent, or the reverse, solidifying why a team member hasn’t been meshing with the rest of the team and needs to be let go.
B.C.’s New Legislation About Pay Transparency Will Affect How You Hire
Employees will gain new rights to information which should help them learn more about the pay offered for a job when they first consider applying. But the new rules will prove impractical for some employers and may not ultimately provide much useful pay information for some job postings.
The Value of an Employee Handbook – 5 Reasons Why You Should Have One
An Employee Handbook creates clear expectations, a communication and training tool, reduces legal risks and promotes trust among employees.
How to Develop Your Managers into Leaders
As businesses grow and evolve, there is often a shift from traditional management structures to more inclusive and collaborative leaders.
4 Ways to Break Bias in the Workplace
How to help break bias: Understand the concept and impact, Practice perspective-taking, Identify ways to break bias, Increase conversations
Top 5 Workplace Wellness Tips
Employee Retention is one of the most important pieces of retaining top talent, but with branded terms like quiet quitting circulating the internet, employers need to step up their game to ensure the term does not turn into real quitting.
6 Tips to Increase Employee Retention and Satisfaction
Employee Retention is one of the most important pieces of retaining top talent, but with branded terms like quiet quitting circulating the internet, employers need to step up their game to ensure the term does not turn into real quitting.
Will the BC Government declare National Truth and Reconciliation Day as a legal statutory holiday?
The survey clearly signals the B.C. government’s intent to add an 11th legal stat holiday for NTRD. There is broad support for this but many employers while supporting recognition of NTRD will be concerned about adding another statutory holiday with no compensating adjustment to the existing schedule of stats.