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Based on my experience administering a returnship program at a previous organization, here’s a step-by-step and best practices for launching…

How to hire at speed without sacrificing, indeed improving, the candidate experience.

Job interviews are a two-way process—you’re interviewing potential new hires, but they’re also interviewing you. It’s therefore important that you…

What’s happening in the world of recruitment and how to take advantage/avoid pitfalls.

Feedback is essential for all of our growth, but it can be difficult to receive, and, sometimes, even more, challenging…

Employees comprise a substantial part of any OpEx budget—between salaries, tax, benefits, etc, it all adds up! This of course…

To avoid proliferating a fruitless paper chase, incorporate these six best practices into your talent review process.

The switch to hybrid and fully remote working has required training teams to invest their time, budget, and energy into…

We can all agree that the COVID-19 global pandemic has been a catalytic event when it comes to talent management.…

Forget NPS and test scores. Toward an L&D function with measurable business outcomes.

Say you want to bake a cake. A fluffy, layered, strawberry one, to be specific. How would you go about…

How to create a PIP with the best chance of succeeding.

I’ve been managing people and budgets for over 20 years, and I was a CFO in 2008 when the recession…

How to conduct the process to minimize stress and trauma.

Offboarding is an often overlooked part of the employee life cycle, but a crucial one. Here’s how to bid adieu…

Employee journey mapping is a neat way to improve the employee experience. Here’s the why and how.

In a previous role I was responsible for conducting exit interviews and, although it might seem awkward, I enjoyed this…

A play-by-play guide to conducting more effective exit interviews. Because the truth is valuable.