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October 2017 - Valley Personnel

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  It is scary how few employers in Canada check references.  Larger companies with Human Resource departments know the value of reference checks, but smaller, entrepreneurial firms are often pressed for time and so reference checks go by the wayside.  The time invested in reference checks is worth every minute. It is a chance to...

I compare recruiting and hiring to dating and marriage.  There has been many a union where one partner or the other said “That’s OK, I will change him/her after we are married.”  Likewise, many an employer has ignored red flags in the recruiting process and wondered why the evil twin came to work instead of...

Many employers think that turnover is a simple matter of replacing an existing employee with a new one.  But turnover has multiple costs that eat directly into your profit.  Turnover does not just include the wage you are paying, it includes expensive, behind-the-scenes costs that employers seldom consider.  Depending on the complexity of the position...