Microinequities and Diversity: It's the little things.

Did you know you send between 2,000 and 4,000 micro-messages a day? Some are positive, like a nod or a smile when you pass a co-worker in the hallway, and some are negative, like pecking away at your Blackberry while someone’s talking to you or looking at your watch during a presentation. Negative micro-messages—or microinequities—have the power to sabotage diversity efforts, poison organization culture, and hamper recruitment and retention. To learn more on this subject, click link below.
http://www.nasrecruitment.com/MicroSites/diversity/articles/archiveD7.html

Career Event Best Practices

Career Fairs are a common practice in building candidate pipelines, and a great opportunity for face-to-face contact with interested, active job seekers. Many hiring organizations attend career fairs regularly; however, career fairs have recently ranked at the bottom of the source value index, according to the Direct Employers Survey by Booz Allen Hamilton. If you are attending career fairs you will want to make sure that the event is worth your time and money. For all the best practices, click link below.
http://www.nasrecruitment.com/TalentTips/NASinsights/Career_Event_Best_Practices.pdf

Focus Groups: 7 steps to defining your unique employment brand.

To determine the parameters of a distinctive employment brand, it’s necessary to undergo a comprehensive evaluation process. This will include analyzing previous results, setting goals, defining a possible employment brand, substantiating the employment brand proposition, and, possibly, conducting a focus group. Click link below for more information.
http://www.nasrecruitment.com/MicroSites/employmentbranding/articles/archiveEB2.html

Conflict Resolution: Let the challenges be the catalyst for positive change.

A survey developed by Office-Team, the world's largest specialized temporary staffing service for administrative professionals, indicated that 19% of an executive's time - almost one day each workweek - is spent dealing with office politics. Fortunately, that large chunk of time devoted to disputes and confusion over unclear messages can often present an opportunity for improvement. Click link below to learn more.
http://www.nasrecruitment.com/MicroSites/Healthcare/Articles/featureH4b.html