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Recruiting and Selecting TOP Employees.

Lori Barber, BA

As a manager or business owner you are aware that employees play a key role in the company’s success. Selecting top employees can help your company thrive. On the other hand, hiring the wrong individuals can hurt productivity and morale.

Building a staff of quality individuals involves conducting an effective recruiting campaign. In this book you will learn how to:

Prepare

• Evaluating and Clarifying Your Staffing Needs
• Determining Your Marketing Strategy
• Establish a Recruiting Budget
• Selecting Appropriate Recruiting Sources

Implement

• Managing Applicant Flow
• Screening and Interviewing
• Decision-Making
• Overcoming Challenges

Follow Up

• Welcoming New Employees
• Keeping In Touch

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Working in Your Slippers: Is Telecommuting Right for You?

Terry Pile, MS, GCDF

To Telecommute or Not to Telecommute

Telecommuting is becoming increasingly popular across corporate America because of the many benefits produced. Employers are seeing increased employee productivity, reduced costs and an attractive recruitment tool.

Employees consider telecommuting the perfect solution to reducing stress and enjoying greater work/life balance. But not all jobs or employees meet the criteria for a successful telecommuting experience.

Working in Your Slippers: How to be a successful Telecommuter offers employees a realistic perspective on the world of Teleworking. They are encouraged to carefully consider their motives, temperament and consequences of working from home.

In addition, this book offers helpful information on communicating with co-workers, managing family expectations and setting up a functional home office. The aim is to help employees make an educated decision as to whether or not to opt for a telecommuting arrangement and how to make the most of it, if they do.

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Leveraging My Talent and My Career: A journey in self-discovery - Book 1

Darlene Davis, MA

Leveraging My Talent and My Career: A journey in self-discovery is the first step in The Career Planning Series. The series is a powerful and practical guide for charting your future, identifying your unique style and preferences, clarifying your values, and enhancing your career potential.

In this book you will find relevant and useful information, interactive feedback in the form of queries and responses, exercises and activities, and much more.

The book includes access to a powerful suite of assessments for use in development, teaming, coaching, succession, and retention. The suite of assessments is accessible online through username and password and consists of four unique and proprietary assessments designed for career development including job performance, job fit, job satisfaction, social behaviors, working styles, and values. The assessments are

• CenterMark – Based on studies in preferences, assesses the key attributes and behaviors associated with job performance and satisfaction.

• MatchPoint – Assesses the key characteristics influencing job fit and satisfaction. Supports you in your career planning and increases your potential for job satisfactions.

• Working Styles – Based on studies in social styles, is a 360 view of observable social behaviors and working style.

• ValueBase – Is an assessment for clarifying values and the importance of how these values are actualized and expressed on the job.

Once you have purchased the book, you will be notified by email and given a username and password for access to the assessment site. The assessment results, reporting, printing features will be available to you for 12 months following purchase.

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Creating a Virtual Office: How to Set-Up a Telecommuting Program for Your Company

Terry Pile, MS, GCDF

You’ve finally convinced top management of the advantages of a telecommuting program. Now it is your job to put one in place. Where do you begin? This comprehensive guide will take you step-by-step through the process of building a successful telecommuting program. It includes:

• Identifying telecommuting jobs

• Developing eligibility criteria

• Creating telecommuting policies and procedures

• Promoting the program to managers and employees

• Evaluating the program’s success

To help you get started, this book offers a sample telecommuting application and an equipment check-out form. It also includes a telecommuting temperament assessment to help you determine if your employees have what it takes to be successful telecommuters.

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The E-Manager: How to Manage Employees Remotely

Terry Pile, MS, GCDF

How do you manage an office without people? The virtual office is becoming more common thanks to increasingly sophisticated technology. Managing employees who work at home or other remote locations poses a new set of challenges for the manager of a mobile workforce.

This book is for managers, supervisors, team leaders and other professionals wanting to learn how to effectively manage employees who are dispersed geographically. Through professional advice, personal assessments and practical exercises it covers the following:

• An temperament assessment for the E-manager

• The advantages and challenges of a mobile workforce

• Tools and techniques for managing remotely

• Building teams and trust long distance

• Managing and evaluating virtual employee performance

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Leveraging My Talent and My Career: A toolkit for exploring options

Darlene Davis, MA

Career decision-making is based on both internal and external factors. The goal is to merge your internal dynamics--your interests, skills, competencies, values, and priorities with the external realities--business, political, global, social, and economical trends.

This second book in the Career Planning Series contains various strategies, tools, guidelines and resources you need to thoroughly research and evaluate your options (risks and advantages), and make your career decisions with confidence. This book will help you:

• Learn the importance of research, what information you need, and how to gather it.

• Become networking savvy.

• Identify future trends in your industry, organization, and profession and see the implications for career decision-making.

• Acquire strategies for gathering information about types of work or specific jobs within your organization.

• Identify the competencies required in your present job now and in the future.

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