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• How and Where to Find Investors for Your Startup

  17-02-2016 20:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  If you have decided that you can't go it alone and that you need investors for your new startup, then you might think your next step is to find those investors you need.But you can't just walk up to people, tell them that you are starting a business, and ask for their hard-earned money. You need to have a plan in place that will demonstrate to potential investors exactly what your ...
  
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• You Can't Tax Me, I'm an Independent (Contractor)

  17-02-2016 20:37 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Do you use independent contractors as part of your staffing model? If so, you should be aware of sweeping changes that the Department of Labor (DOL) is making to determine if your workers are truly independent contractors or actually employees.In the past, the Department of Labor (DOL) used to rely on the IRS 20-factor test to determine if a worker was an independent contractor or employee. The DOL replaced the old IRS test by issuing
  
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• How the Best Recruiters Communicate

  17-02-2016 20:14 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  As a recruiter, you're often a candidate's first touchpoint with a company. You're the first opportunity for an employer to make a good impression, yours is the first hand that a potential employee shakes, and you're the first ambassador of an employer's brand.Because of all this, your ability to communicate well can be the difference between establishing a new relationship or losing sought-after talent. With that in mind, here's a roundup of tips based on recent research into how the ...
  
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• Funding Your Startup: Self-Finance or Seek Investors?

  17-02-2016 19:38 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Starting your own business can be a dream come true – but if you want the dream to continue and the business to stay afloat, you need to secure financing.There are two options available to you as an entrepreneur: self-financing or finding investors. Both options have their pros and cons. Let's take a look at each, so you can get a better idea of what you may be getting into.Seeking InvestorsMany entrepreneurs feel that it is best ...
  
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• 4 Ways to Elevate the Quality of Your Healthcare Talent

  17-02-2016 19:08 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  It's a new year with new goals, and for a majority of healthcare recruiters, improving candidate quality is a top priority. With all of the recent regulatory changes in the healthcare environment, that link between candidate quality and quality of patient care has jumped from business-as-usual to central focus for hospitals and health practices. Progressive organizations are tracing quality care and patient satisfaction back to their logical origin: the quality of professionals hired to provide
  
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• Performance Reviews: A Brief Guide for Employees

  17-02-2016 18:34 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Reviews have become the standard way in which we communicate our satisfaction or displeasure with one another. Chances are good that the last time you had a negative experience at a restaurant, you logged on to a site like Yelp to share your experience with the online community.Your annual performance evaluation serves a similar purpose. However, more is at stake for you at work. The score you receive can impact your performance ...
  
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• Recruiting Is Marketing – But What If You're No Good at Marketing?

  17-02-2016 16:59 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  By now, it's basically a truism: "Recruiters need to be more like marketers." The funnels are similar; the goals are similar; even the strategic functions of both departments are similar.But there's one huge problem: Recruiters aren't marketers. They're recruiters. As such, they haven't been trained as marketers.How can we expect recruiters to become marketers – and not just marketers, but great marketers – if, traditionally speaking, recruiting has not been like marke
  
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• Yes, the robots will steal our jobs. And that's fine. - Washington Post

  17-02-2016 14:31 via
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  Yes, the robots will steal our jobs. And that's fine.
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  The U.S. economy added 2.7 million jobs in 2015, capping the best two-year stretch of employment growth since the late 1990s, pushing the unemployment rate down to 5 percent. But to listen to the doomsayers, it's just a matter of time before the rapid ...
  

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