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• Recruitment Spotlight: How to Check References

  Most people have to check references in some shape or form, whether it’s for a candidate or a babysitter. I don’t know about you, but until I wrote Success for Hire I never really knew how to do it. Here's what I learned: While you can e-mail a reference Read More... Posted Friday, August 15, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Best Practices, HR Issues, People Skills, Professionalism

• Recruitment Spotlight: 8 Musts for Conducting a Job Interview

  My new book, Success for Hire (ASTD Press) features employee recruitment and retention practices that a lot of people think they know but in reality, don’t put into practice. One of those practices is effective in-person interviewing, which can ensure Read More... Posted Friday, August 01, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 1 Comments Filed under: Best Practices, Communication, HR Issues, Management, Professionalism, Work

• Working Remotely or Remotely Working?

  The HR Capitalist has a great post about the distrust of those working from home. Are they really working, asks writer Kris Dunn, or are they simply squeezing 3 hours of work into an 8-hour day? More importantly, can a remote worker/telecommuter even Read More... Posted Monday, March 03, 2008 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: HR Issues, Life Balance, Personal Marketing, Productivity, Professionalism, Technology, Daily Life, Work

• The New Inane E-mail Forwards? YouTube Videos.

  Just when you thought the fad of forwarding silly or inappropriate joke e-mails to colleagues had run its course, along comes YouTube . Now don’t get me wrong: I think YouTube is the greatest entertainment invention since Nintendo. My favorite YouTube Read More... Posted Friday, October 26, 2007 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 2 Comments Filed under: Communication, Current Affairs, HR Issues, Office Politics, Professionalism, Technology, Daily Life, Workplace Humor

• Arm Yourself Against Workplace Affairs

  Anita Bruzzese over at 45 Things has an interesting post on workplace romance. While Anita does mention that 58 percent of us working folk have dated someone you work with and that she herself married someone she met on the job, it’s cool that she doesn’t Read More... Posted Monday, September 10, 2007 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 1 Comments Filed under: Current Affairs, HR Issues, Office Politics, Professionalism, Troubleshooting

• How to Respond to Racism at Work

  Penelope Trunk has an interesting post on responding to racist comments in a work situation, and she links over to a brilliant entry on the very useful blog, Race in the Workplace . The author, Carmen Van Kerckhove, is a consultant for New Demographic Read More... Posted Monday, August 20, 2007 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 2 Comments Filed under: Best Practices, Ethics, HR Issues, Professionalism, Troubleshooting

• Should Chivalry Be Dead?

  Last weekend, my friend from Michigan was visiting us in Chicago. She works in finance, which is still an industry made up predominantly of men, and she asked me what I thought about the role of traditional chivalry in the modern workplace. My friend Read More... Posted Monday, August 06, 2007 7:00 PM by AlexandraLevit | 2 Comments Filed under: Current Affairs, HR Issues, Professionalism, Work

• 4 Tips for Making a Smooth Exit

  It’s your lucky day. You just got a sweet job offer at a company you’ve been dying to work for. Congratulations! Now, though, you want to make sure you leave with your great reputation intact. In business, you should never burn any bridges, because you Read More... Posted Friday, March 16, 2007 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 1 Comments Filed under: Best Practices, Career Change, HR Issues, Professionalism, Troubleshooting, Work

• Tips for Submitting Expense Reports

  Expense reports are a reality of employment in Corporate America that most people tend not to think too much about. You spend money on behalf of your company and HR pays you back ASAP, right? However, once you go to actually submit your first expense Read More... Posted Friday, February 23, 2007 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Best Practices, Compensation, Business, HR Issues, Professionalism, Daily Life, Work Attachment(s): http://doctorcushing.com/db4/00363/doctorcushing.com/_uimages/calculator.jpg

• Why Taboo Conversation is Never Smart

  What is with all of these high-profile people shooting their mouths off? First there was Mel Gibson , then Michael Richards , and now uber-publisher Judith Regan . What do these three have in common? They let their guards down in the heat of the moment, Read More... Posted Tuesday, January 02, 2007 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Communication, Current Affairs, Business, HR Issues, Personal Marketing, Professionalism, Work Attachment(s): http://www.falcoreport.com/images/photo-judith-regan.jpg

• Beware the Job Interview Confessional

  CollegeRecruiter.com has a great post on topics to avoid during job interviews. According to Steven Rothberg, you should avoid topics such as sex, politics, and religion unless they are directly relevant to the position (they almost never are) as well Read More... Posted Wednesday, November 29, 2006 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 0 Comments Filed under: Best Practices, HR Issues, Job Hunting, People Skills, Professionalism, Work Attachment(s): http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/05/20/job_interview/story.jpg

• Be Your Company's Best Ambassador

  At the Here We Are, Now What? blog , Terry Seamon talks about a speech he heard by Greg Taylor at Lee Hecht Harrison . According to Taylor, the Disney World employees who receive the most training dollars are not the characters who entertain, the customer Read More... Posted Monday, October 23, 2006 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 1 Comments Filed under: Best Practices, Communication, HR Issues, Professionalism Attachment(s): http://www.holidaysorlando.eu.com/Disney/Walt%20Disney%20World%20Resort.jpg

• Your Exit Interview is Not a Free for All

  Many companies request that departing employees do exit interviews with HR. The person conducting the interview, who probably doesn’t know you from a hole in the wall, will usually expect you to divulge why you are leaving and how you feel about your Read More... Posted Wednesday, May 17, 2006 7:00 AM by AlexandraLevit | 3 Comments Filed under: HR Issues, Office Politics, Professionalism