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Recent Benefits/HR Articles

Bounce Back From a Bad Hire: 10 Tips

Once you realize you've made a bad hire, don't get mired in regret. Instead, focus on what to do next.  Read more

HomeAway Co-Founder: Why I Hire Failures

An epic fail early in his career taught HomeAway co-founder Brian Sharples that it's a good idea to hire folks who have a healthy familiarity with failure.  Read more

How CEOs Can Close the Skills Gap

Entrepreneurs may be missing out on the best hires by not doing this recruiting tip.  Read more

How I Got My Office to Lose Weight

Let's face it: A healthy company is a productive company. And mine needed a boost. Here's how I created a friendly competition to get everyone thinking about...  Read more

Tony Hsieh: 'Hiring Mistakes Cost Zappos.com $100 Million' 

Tony Hsieh describes exactly how he set up Zappos.com's hiring process to avoid bad hiring decisions.  Watch video

6 Ways to Survive a Holiday Work Party

Here are six sure-fire survival tips for the inevitable holiday get-together.  Read more

The Real Productivity-Killer: Jerks

Infographic: Crummy bosses aren't just a pain; they're bad for business. But how bad? We've found the stats--and it's not pretty.  Read more

4 Cheap Ways to Find Sales Superstars

How to find top salespeople--without hiring a recruiter  Read more

How to Bulletproof Your Company Culture

Growth often comes at a cost: Acquisitions and fast hiring decisions can wreak havoc on your company culture. Here's how not to let it happen.  Read more

Managing Senior Hires: When to Back Off & When to Lead

If I'm willing to learn from my staffers, they're more willing to learn from me. Here's how.  Read more

The Zombie Guide to Human Resources

If your team was the last surviving band of humans in a city overrun by zombies, you wouldn't let just anybody through the door would you?  Read more

How to Get the Perfect Marketing Hire 

Brian Halligan, founder of HubSpot, talks about his simple guide for hiring the next generation of marketing employees.  Watch video

7 Unusual Things Great Bosses Do

Great bosses do these things. The rest don't--because these simple gestures would never occur to them.  Read more

Hire Top Candidates in 21 Days or Less. Here's How

When you spot talent, accelerate your hiring process--right away.  Read more

Face It: Your Employees Cheat (or Used to)

Here's how you can encourage your staffers to be ethical at work (even if they haven't always been).  Read more

Obamacare is Here to Stay. Now What?

Now that repeal is off the table, you need to get with the program, like it or not. Here are three things you have to do.  Read more

Build the Best Team Possible (Drycleaning Matters, But Not Why You Think)

Start by asking a potential hire his life's goals--and then draw a roadmap of how those can be achieved working for you.  Read more

Want to Be More Effective? Try a Mental Detox

Follow these four tips to get back on top of your mental game.  Read more

The Best Place to Launch Your Company 

NYC TechStars managing director David Tisch on the eternal question: Silicon Valley vs. New York, Boston, Boulder or...?  Watch video

24 Things You Can Do With an Extra Hour

Daylight Savings ended and now you have an extra hour every day. Here are 24 things you can do to get the most from that extra hour.  Read more

JJ Ramberg: 'Have You Done the Best Job Possible?' 

Want to set high expectations? Ask employees to assess their own work before they submit it, says JJ Ramberg, host of MSNBC's Your Business.  Watch video

Give Your Employees Election Day Off. Here's Why

Kiva, GOOD Worldwide, and a slew of other companies and non-profits are making Election Day a paid holiday. Should you?  Read more

The Case for Hiring Unskilled Workers

Did you create your business with the intent of gaining freedom and financial security? Here's how to get what you want without creating just another job for...  Read more

3 Ways to Avoid Hiring Nightmares

Want to waste less time and money on the wrong hires? Follow this bit of unexpected advice.  Read more

Save Lives By Sharing Data

Sage Biometrics gives medical researchers a means (and a reason) to cooperate.  Read more