Your HR Career

The HR I.Q. Test: March ’15

03/02/2015

Here’s our monthly quiz on your knowledge of HR law, news and issues.

2015’s in-demand HR jobs

02/12/2015

Twenty-seven percent of HR pros say their employers are looking to hire more HR pros this year. That’s up from 20% in January 2014. Here’s who they’re looking for.

When briefing your boss, make every minute matter

02/05/2015

When your supervisor asks for your take on an important business matter, deliver a tidy, easy-to-follow summary. Here’s how to help listeners understand what they need to know quickly.

The HR I.Q. Test: February ’15

02/01/2015

This month’s quiz topics include pay raises for HR, Coca-Cola’s daring workplace ban, and the most depressing job in America.

7 tricks to improve your Google prowess

01/29/2015

Google is a powerful research tool, especially if you know how to use it to its full capacity. Siobhan Harmer at Lifehack.org offers some tips to help.

Fine-tune your personal presence–on social media and in real life

01/27/2015

Some people just seem to have that “it” factor—the effortless charm and intelligence to seem at ease and intelligent in all situations. What is their secret?

HR professionals’ sense of job security may be soaring, but their pay is decidedly flat. Median total cash compensation for HR pros—including base salary, bonuses and incentive pay—rose just 2.6% in 2014 after two years of larger gains.

HR pros confident about job security in 2015

01/16/2015

The number of HR professionals worried about losing their jobs has fallen 10 percentage points since January 2014.

The HR I.Q. Test: January ’15

01/04/2015

Test your knowledge of recent trends in employment law, comp & benefits and other HR issues with our monthly mini-quiz.

5 personality types that sabotage teams–and what to do about them

12/29/2014

HR pros often have to help managers build effective project teams. It’s usually obvious who should be on a team; less clear is who makes a lousy team member. Here are five problem personality types that can turn a harmonious, winning team into a dysfunctional cage fight of clashing egos and insecurities. The good news: There are strategies to turn team chaos into collegiality.