Top 10 Tips to Hiring and Keeping Solid Employees

All of a company’s employees add value and contribute to its success – some in small way, others in large measure. Because sound recruitment and retention strategies provide a competitive edge, hiring should be done carefully, methodically and strategically. Here are ten ways to attract top prospects to your company and retain them once they’re [...]

Bill Passes in Maryland – Maryland Flexible Leave Act

More and more bills are being passed mandating paid sick and family leave, which leaves many states considering the same outcome.
The Maryland Flexible Leave Act (MFLA) officially went into effect on October 1.
This bill doesn’t require companies to provide paid time off for illness, but if they already provide this, they now have to allow [...]

Top 3 HR Software Purchasing Mistakes and How to Avoid Them

Choosing the right HR product for your company can be difficult and often time consuming. While you’re searching for the right HR Software, try to avoid these three common mistakes when making that final purchase.
1. Ignoring the vendor’s history – Not knowing where your vendor is headed could be deadly to your business. We aren’t [...]

Feature Spotlight – SoftTime’s Leave Request System.

Make your job easier while making your employees happy…
SoftTIME Diamond Edition:
AUTOMATED EMPLOYEE LEAVE REQUEST SYSTEM
Allows an employee to request time off through the software.  Employee’s can view their own time and totals, designate a day or days they would like to request off, and ultimately press SUBMIT, which then automatically sends an email to [...]

Avoiding the high cost of employee absenteeism

Business analysts often hesitate to put a concrete valuation on service firms because, as they note, “their inventory walks out the door every night,” referring, of course, to the companies’ employees.

Problems of such mobile inventory begin when employees don’t walk back in the door the next morning due to absences for any number of reasons. [...]

Two Interviewing Tips to Gauge Your Candidate’s Personality

If you are interviewing candidates for a company position and you need someone who is flexible and can adapt to change, here are two things to look for.
1.       If you take your candidate to lunch and he or she adds salt to their food without tasting it first, they may be governed by habit and [...]

Late night e-mail: Are you sure you want to send it?

Have you ever sent a late-night email? Maybe after a night of bar-hopping, or even after you found out some critical information about your boss or a co-worker, that may have angered you? Well folks, Google wants to prevent that from now on.
The official Gmail blog recently announced that Google is testing a new email [...]

Dealing with Employee Confrontation: Absences and Tardiness

When it comes to being a business owner or a manager, it can be extremely frustrating having an employee that doesn’t show up for work when he or she is scheduled. We all know that you have a busy day and you do not feel like taking time to scold an employee or watch an [...]

Our new business cards – What do you think?

As some of you know, we have created a new branding image. It started with our logo, which can be seen on our site, and it moved to the new website and stationary.
Our new business cards came in today, and we want to know your opinion on them. It speaks loads about our company; fresh, [...]

Top 10 HR Mistakes – and How to Avoid Them

We all make mistakes. However, in business, mistakes that involve your people can severely drain your bottom line, your piece of mind and possibly your entire business. We will start out this month by reviewing the top 10 human resources mistakes” and then, in the coming months, go more in depth on each one.
1. [...]