Your HR Career

Which faux pas undercut your effectiveness?

06/17/2014

You work hard to maintain a professional environment, but everyone slips up now and then. See how many of these blunders you’re guilty of committing.

Which U.S. city is best for growing a small business?

06/12/2014

No surprise, tech’s hometown of San Jose, Calif., is where small business is thriving the most, based on a Biz2Credit survey of annual revenues, credit scores and business longevity.

SHRM announces its own HR certification

06/11/2014

HR pros have more questions than answers following a May announcement by the Society for Human Resource Management that it will begin offering its own professional certification program in direct competition with the familiar Professional in Human Resources and Senior Professional in Human Resources designations held by more than 130,000 practitioners.

The HR I.Q. Test: June ’14

06/02/2014

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

Suffering from tech overload? 4 tips to delete the stress

05/19/2014

While technology can make you more efficient, it can also detract from your work if you don’t manage it properly. Here are four tips to help you use technology in a time-efficient manner and avoid the overload.

How to keep trouble-makers from ruining your meetings

05/15/2014

You’ve prepared the meeting agenda and presentation materials and secured all the necessary participants. But how do you keep the meeting on track when a few bad apples threaten to derail the gathering? Here is how to swiftly and professionally handle disruptive meeting attendees.

The HR I.Q. Test: May ’14

05/01/2014

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

Are you burning out? 25 questions to gauge your mental state

05/01/2014

In the middle of winter, with the holidays a distant memory and spring still months away, motivation begins to flag. It’s the time of year when the seasonal blues can turn into a full-blown job meltdown. Take this self-assessment find out if you’re edging toward the crispy end of the burnout scale.

HR temp jobs growing fast–and paying well

04/16/2014

HR specialists will be among the most sought-after and best-paid temporary workers through the end of the year, according to a new survey by CareerBuilder.com and Economic Modeling Specialists International.

Keep ‘scope creep’ from derailing your project

04/15/2014

One of the biggest project management pitfalls is the tendency of the work to expand over time. Here are six rules to prevent it.