The balance between work and life is a conversation that happens daily around the world. Many organizations require employees to take time off, and some that even provide vacations for tenured employees. This not only boosts the organizations culture, but also boosts engagement among employees. However, what happens when employees are late to work and blame it on “life.”  There could be numerous reasons why employees are late; childcare issues, a traffic accident, medical or health, worked late and overslept… the reasons could be endless. Some of the reasons that employees are late are issues that according to the legal department, you cannot ask.

Yes, desperation can lead to hiring mistakes, but, more often, desperation guarantees mistakes will be made. Being desperate to hire someone is like going to the grocery store after you haven’t eaten for the last three days. Everything will look delicious --- even foods you don’t normally like.

At speaking engagements or during webinars I’m often asked what key takeaways, what gems of wisdom have I learned during the course of my career.  Like most of you out there I’m still at it; learning something new every day.  But I’ve gained a valuable perspective from what I’ve seen and experienced.  I’ve learned that professional wisdom comes to each of us in two ways:  1) what you learn to do (what works), and 2) what mistakes you’ve seen or made (what doesn’t work).

Thinking about hiring offsite help? Wonder if that’s a good idea? Let’s take a look. Here are the top five benefits that come from hiring contingent workers:

A couple years back I was asked to outline “the future of talent management” in a talk at Google headquarters. Then as now, I predicted the future of talent management will follow the “professional sports model,” which many of you undoubtedly witnessed during yesterday’s Super Bowl.

Scheduling the best interview time for you and your candidate is a kind of a challenge. They lob a time over to you, you lob it back over to them, and so until you come to an agreement.

What would you ask if you truly knew your data? Many organizations claim to be data driven but don’t know what the data is meant to be telling them or how they’d fix the issues they think they have. Now this may not be you, but like many CIOs and VPs of Talent Acquisition, you might be grappling with the sudden influx of new figures, data streams and the demands from multiple departments to make sense of it all…so you can solve their issue. Instead, take a step back and look at the 6 questions you’ll be asking soon:

Companies must be aware of the treatment of all employees in the workplace. Before making a hiring or promotion decision, managers should ensure that the decision is not being made on the sole basis of age. In addition, companies should try to provide equal benefits to older and younger workers in order to avoid a potential violation of the ADEA.

What are Bitcoins?

Bitcoins are a relatively new thing and many people don’t know what they are. Bitcoins are a virtual cryptocurrency with the creation and transfer of Bitcoins being based on an open-source protocol which is independent of any central authority. Users are able to earn Bitcoins by using computing power to solve the cryptographs, with there being a set limit of coins released and ever increasing difficulty level making money by mining Bitcoins is only really feasible for those with very powerful computing devices. The price of Bitcoins has risen in value over the past few years, with many believing that Bitcoin has the potential to revolutionise the global monetary system. While the Bitcoins have risen substantially since their introduction, the e-currency has been very volatile and in April 2013 the price of Bitcoin dropped from $266 per coin to a low of $50 before recovering a substantial amount of their value. Look at European regulated forex broker, these guys have been trading bitcoins for more than 5 years and their profit only increases.