Tag Archives: hiring

After the Interview: Who Did I Just Hire?

You spent months looking for the perfect candidate with your offsite human resources experts at a Professional Employer Organization (PEO) like Abel HR. Together, you reviewed resumes, conducted interviews, and even extended an offer or two. Finally, you landed someone you and your company were excited about. However, the person who showed up for their first day of […]

What Should An Employee’s First Day Look Like?

You’ve sifted through resumes, you’ve sat through countless rounds of interviews, you’ve extended an offer, and you’ve lined up a start date. But now what? You want your new employee to have a fantastic first day – you want them to feel welcomed, start building relationships with their teammates, get a taste for what their […]

Attracting Top Talent is All in the Job Posting

Finding a candidate to fill a job opening often feels like trying to find a needle in a haystack. However, you know you can significantly streamline your search if you are able to curate a job description that attracts only the best, most qualified talent? Indeed, if we’re going to run with this whole needle […]

Four Steps to be a Better Interviewer

Sifting through a pile of resumes is arduous, but actually interviewing the faces behind those crisp papers is a whole other anxiety-inducing endeavor. Interviewing is not only an art form but an art form where the stakes are really high. If you fail to weed out the undesirables, you’ll wind up costing your company both […]

PEO Problem Solvers: Graduating Interns to New Hires

Internships are a great way to find talent for your company. More than 67 percent of interns were given a job offer stemming from their internship at a company, and a whopping three-quarters of those given the offer ultimately accepted. With these statistics in mind, you know that there is a lot of potential to […]

How to Develop an Enriching Intern Program

Developing an internship program is a labor of love in and of itself but developing a program that is enriching for both the interns and the rest of your business is a whole other undertaking. The good news is that many of the facets that go into making an internship program successful align with what […]

Is an Intern Program Worth Your Time?

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if you could add some new talent to your company without paying through the nose to get them onboard? Wouldn’t it be great if they had a shiny new college degree and were super eager to get their foot in the door along with some much-needed experience? Wouldn’t the icing on […]

What if Top Talent Isn’t Banging Down the Door?

When a human resources professional posts a help wanted ad, the anticipation is they will be inundated with a slew of excellent candidates that are all overly qualified for the position, each an excellent fit with your company culture, and willing to work for less than budgeted. Somehow, it never really works out that way. […]

Why Evidence-Based Decision Making Will Grow Your Company

A business owner wouldn’t make a decision without looking at the data behind it—what do the sales numbers look like? How much revenue do we need to make in order to offset the decision I’m about to make? Does it fit into the forecast? When folks discuss the role of HR, the first phrase to […]

Look In From The Outside. What Do Prospective Hires See?

If you’ve been in the HR game for a while, you know that human resources folks love nothing more than a new buzz word. The latest one? “New joiner experience.” This term basically captures everything that your employee faces when they come on board with your company. From the very first interview to making their […]

4 Ways to Ease Your HR Burden

Running your own business is not easy and more often than not you’ll feel like you’re being pulled in all kinds of directions and asked to wear more hats than you ever dreamed of. There is a solution – outsourcing employee benefit management services to a Professional Employer Organization (PEO) that can help with the less […]

Do You Know Your Prospective Employees’ Social Score?

Companies are reviewing their prospective hires’ social media presence more than ever before bringing them on board. Social media activity can give business owners and those involved in the hiring process big clues as to who the person is they are looking at. But now, companies are turning to actual social scores to determine the […]