Today’s companies, both large and small, can quickly find themselves needing a global workforce in order to succeed. The challenge of uniting and motivating workers separated by language, distance, culture, and time can be daunting. Uniting workers is key, however,…
Author: victorassad6
I advocate, consult, speak, and write about recruiting talent, building HR capabilities, and developing excellent leaders, teams, and cultures. I am the CEO of Victor Assad Strategic HR Consulting and Managing Partner of InnovationOne. I have just released my first book, "Hack Recruiting: The Best of Empirical Research, Method and Process, and Digitization." It has received outstanding endorsement and 5-star ratings on Amazon.
We work with small, mid-size, and large organizations in a variety of industries such as medical devices, bio-tech, high tech, health care, manufacturing, semiconductors, mining, and retail.
Before consulting, I led HR for fast-growth, global businesses of Medtronic and Honeywell.
Happy Labor Day! Happy Choices?
The United States celebrates Labor Day this week, a holiday that was created to commemorate the Haymarket massacre in Chicago on May 4, 1886. What began as a peaceful rally in support of an eight hour workday (most workers labored…
Cortes and the elusive chase of work-life balance
Many employees chase the elusive pursuit of work-life balance, like the Spaniard Cortes combing the jungles of South America in the 16th century, looking for the city of gold, Eldorado. Work-life balance for full-time workers is elusive and nearly impossible…
Employee engagement remains anemic. Here are nine ways to fix it!
During the past weeks, we have seen headlines declaring continued anemic scores for employee engagement. Other headlines have predicted small base pay increases for 2016. TINYpulse, the B2B employee survey company published the results of their latest employee engagement survey…
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This one practice will double your hiring success!
Research from 65 years ago shows that impressions made of a job candidate during the first four minutes of an interview play a dominant role in shaping an interviewer’s hiring decision. First impressions establish a bias, which colors all subsequent…
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Onboarding: Accelerate productivity and increase employee engagement!
Many companies are ramping up their recruiting efforts to keep pace with the current economic boom. Having an effective onboarding program is critical to getting new hires up to speed and retaining them for years to come. How can companies…
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7 Ways to Improve Recruiting in a Hot Economy!
The U. S. economy is continuing its steady growth in the second quarter of the year at 2.3%, and the unemployment rate remains at 5.3%. The competition for qualified employees is getting intense! Many recruiters are hearing these ominous words…
7 Reasons Why it is a Great Time to be in Human Resources!
Human resources as an organizational function and its leaders are receiving heaps of criticism these days. I must say that some of it is justified! Pundits, academics and business executives alike have been criticizing HR for not being business savvy,…
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Managers, will your team achieve their year-end goals?
Companies don’t generate value - people do. Your role as a manager is critical for aligning, motivating, and empowering your team to succeed. It’s half way through the calendar year. How is your team doing? How is each individual team…
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Half way through the year: How successful is your talent management plan?
I will be the first to tell you there has never been a better time to be in human resources. Never has there been better and more widely available research, predictive models, and--during this economic expansion--the need for companies to…
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