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Explaining a Brief Tenure
Employers cast a jaundiced eye on job candidates who spend their entire career hopping from job to job. But a short stint with a company is not necessarily a reflection of immaturity or instability. There may be a perfectly understandable explanation for why the individual stayed for such a brief period. How do you explain [...]
Insights from Recent Case Studies, Part 1 of 3
Employee opinions about workplace dynamics are often leading indicators of actual safety performance. In fact, new research by Towers Perrin-ISR illuminates consistent aspects of employee culture that are most important in reducing safety outcomes on the job. According to the findings, there are four common areas of organizational culture that have a significant impact on [...]
How to Overcome the 7 Biggest Challenges, Part 2 of 2
Let’s continue our discussion of what experts say are the seven biggest challenges to job searching and what you can do to overcome them. In case you missed Part 1, the first four challenges are:
Not currently having a job;
Being 50 or older;
Lack of focus; and
Inability to position oneself for the market.
CHALLENGE 5: Explaining a History [...]
Stress Safety With Kids On “Take Your Kids to Work” Day
A weary safety coordinator is asking for help from the SafetyXChange Forum. I don’t know if she’s the same member who posted this time last year, but I know I’ve seen this plea before. And I’m guessing there are several other safety supervisors out there who need assistance right now, too. What’s the annual dilemma? [...]
A Progressive Approach to Safety
To paraphrase Fortune magazine, the flattened network organization has changed the style of command and control. Collaboration is in. Managers and workers have to practice cooperation and collaboration. A direct quote from the magazine: “The environment increasingly encourages this collaboration by the devolution of power and delegation of duties, right down to the empowered, self-managed [...]
Warn Workers Not To Be April Fools
Today is the first of April, April Fool’s Day. Its origins are uncertain, but this unofficial holiday is a time for pranks, jokes and hoaxes. Beware of what you see, read and hear on the radio, TV and, above all, the Internet today. But if your interest is safety, you need to keep April Fool’s [...]
