How to make sure good employees stay

How to make sure good employees stay

To a greater or lesser extent, businesses spend money advertising a vacancy on job boards or through recruitment agencies, invest valuable time sifting through shortlists (which can also be long-lists, if the sifting process isn’t up to scratch) and more time still sitting across the table from a parade of candidates at interview.

But once the successful candidate has accepted the job, been given a pass to get into the building, allocated a computer and an email address, and given an induction there’s a danger that we simply take their presence for granted and, to all intents and purposes, forget about them.

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Why everyone hates performance reviews

Why everyone hates performance reviews

Performance review. Two words in office life that are often guaranteed to make employees and managers alike roll their eyes in and sigh loudly.

Everyone hates performance review season, and I mean everyone.

As a formal process of evaluating an employee’s value to a business, the performance review (PR) has been around for a few decades now and yet with each passing year I read exactly the same articles and books lamenting its shortcomings.

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