Author: Tanya Ponton

27 Apr Home Work: Setting Up a Great Home Office

Posted at 07:00h in Employers, Small Business Owners, Startups

We wrote some time ago about telecommuting and how to make that work for you. But key to working remotely is having the right set-up at home to be able to be productive and the best way to have a dedicated space for your work.

Here are some tips for setting up a great home office:

20 Apr Time Out: Better Time Management Tips for Work

Posted at 07:00h in Job Seekers

The Internet. Smart phones. Text messages. Email. We have so many ways to communicate, get information, be organized – but sometimes this just feels overwhelming, not streamlined. If you find yourself longing for the days of a rotary phone and carbon copies – don’t despair. You may just need to find a way to organize your day for better time management at work.

We suggest these tips for better time management and a more efficient workday:

13 Apr Good Talk: How to Run an Effective Meeting

Posted at 07:00h in Employers, Small Business Owners, Startups

We can’t avoid the team meeting, the one-on-one feedback session, or the companywide annual call. We’re humans, and we like to interact. Business meetings are simply a fact of American corporate life. But they also can easily disintegrate into unfocused, undisciplined wastes of time. How do you make sure that you run an effective meeting that is worth its conference room hour?

Here are tips on how to run an effective meeting:

06 Apr How to Get a Summer Internship

Posted at 07:00h in Job Seekers

It might seem like it’s barely spring, but summer is closer than you think. For most college students, this means getting ready for final exams and looking forward to a break from classes. But it also means thinking about opportunities to learn about different careers over the break. Depending on your interest, your experience, and your financial expectations, there are a lot of ways to get a summer internship.

Here are some ideas to help you get a summer internship:

30 Mar Get Social: Using LinkedIn for Recruiting

Posted at 07:00h in Employers, Small Business Owners, Startups

We have discussed in the past how LinkedIn is a must-use resource if you are looking for a job. But it is also incredibly valuable as an employer looking for new hires. With more than 400 million members, there’s a huge pool of talent available. And if you take advantage of the extensive features available, you can easily design a search where you are using LinkedIn for recruiting that is productive and not overwhelming.

Here are some tips to using LinkedIn for recruiting:

23 Mar Using a Managed Service Provider (MSP)

Posted at 07:00h in Employers, Small Business Owners, Startups

You’re a growing business, and you suddenly realize you need a lot more support in areas like IT or accounting. Or maybe you have a short-term project that needs a lot of people, but not forever. Or you have a lot of temporary support from a variety of agencies, but its time-consuming to manage them all. One solution could be using a managed service provider.

Things to know when considering using a managed service provider:

16 Mar Strong Start: How to Be a Great New Employee

Posted at 07:00h in Job Seekers

You’ve got the new job. Congratulations. But how do you become a great new employee? After all, you’ve already been a great recruit. You’ve put together the great resume, or LinkedIn profile. You made it through one interview, or several. You negotiated salary. You moved across country, or started a new commute. But – now you’re the new guy (or woman) at the office. How do you start to become more than just the unknown face?

How to be a great new employee:

09 Mar How to Motivate Employees

Posted at 07:00h in Employers, Small Business Owners, Startups

People look for new jobs for a variety of reasons. If they’re just entering the job market, say, straight from college, their primary motivation might be to just get experience, even if the pay isn’t great. For others, they might be looking for more flexible work hours, or an opportunity for promotion. But whatever the reason for looking for a new job, one of the ways to keep people at the current job is to keep them encouraged. It's important to know how to motivate employees, not just lead them. Often feeling encouraged at work can be more important than an incremental raise, more vacation days, or other purely economic benefits. For most of us, the paycheck matters, but money isn’t everything.

Here are some ways to motivate employees:

02 Mar Career Advice: Things to Remember

Posted at 07:00h in Job Seekers

Whether you have been in the market for five minutes or five decades, you're constantly sifting through what's important to remember in future decisions, and what's additional noise. The truth is, everybody has an opinion. Everybody has advice. Not everybody is right. They can't all be. And what's important information to you, will be useless to someone else. But we offer some pearls of wisdom that resonated with us, and we pass them on to you here. It's up to you to embrace them or discard them.

Here's some career advice to consider:

24 Feb How to Hire Millennials

Posted at 07:00h in Employers, Small Business Owners, Startups

Everyone under 40 is entitled. Or is it ambitious? A self-starter? Or addicted to social media? If you want to hire millennials, you might have to get past the sound bite and learn more about this segment of the workforce. What motivates them, what value they bring, how to engage them might not be as intimidating (or frustrating) as it sounds.