Write a kick ass job ad!! It matters! It can be tempting to think that your effort is pointless, after all it’s an OCEAN of postings and they look the same. So it’s even more important that your posting appeals to the ideal candidate.

Good organizational structure can boost the effectiveness and performance of an organization as well as the lives of employees doing the work. But how do you get there? This video talks about the steps to organization design. Learn more.

We don’t all know how to use job boards properly. Frankly, everyone has jobs advertised, so I wasn’t even sure what made a job board. Stephen Rothberg answered all my questions and the ones I didn’t know I had! He’s founder of College Recruiter and host of the High Volume Hiring Podcast. Read more.

It is very hard to predict if a person will succeed after a promotion. Sorry, but your awesome interview or the opinion of someone’s manager is not reliable. Fortunately there is a more effective alternative! Read more.

In many things 1-2% improvement is good enough, especially year after year. You don’t always have to do something dramatic. But when the future of your company is at stake or there’s some other big factor at play, you need transformational change.

I was reading something on the LinkedIn a while back about an HR professional from Afghanistan who was driving a taxi. Usually we hear this about doctors and engineers, but HR? So, this had me thinking: What does it take to succeed in the HR industry in Canada? Read more.

This episode was definitely the least boring take on grading jobs I could imagine. Even if you think that job evaluation is dull, or if you’re in HR, you have to get over it. Why? Check out the episode to learn more.

Psychometric testing, performed by trained psychologists, is the best predictor of job success of any recruitment or selection tool out there. It is a science, and it teaches you lots. Check out this week’s HR ShopTalk episode to find out more!

Let’s get a bit real. Chances are, if you are white in the workplace, you think you are an ally. For example, approximately 75 percent of white employees believe that they are allies to women of colour. However, when do you recall DOING something in support of someone with a marginalized identity?

Compensation is possibly the most important thing Human Resources must get right. If you underpay people, they will be unhappy or leave. Even more so, it is wrong. Though, if you overpay people, everyone is going to want a raise to match, and your compensation costs will rise.