Guide to Onboarding – Part 1

Onboarding, not paddleboarding! Image Source Congratulations! You have recently completed an exhaustive job search and have spent countless hours reviewing resumes and interviewing candidates. You have painstakingly pondered over which candidate you feel will best suit your team, performed all the necessary background checks, and extended a great offer to your top candidate for a […]

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Stampede – The Good, The Bad & The Unemployed

For many Calgary-based businesses, the first ten days of July each summer are synonymous with a slowdown of business, empty offices and packed beer gardens. Viewed by some as the least productive time of year – “no one works during Stampede” – a strong case can be made for exactly the opposite. In fact, if […]

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Candidate Care: Recruitment 101

What the public knows about your organization greatly influences employee morale and satisfaction internally, as well as your draw to external candidates. In retail, it is a proven fact that when someone receives good customer service they’ll share that with 3 connections. However when they receive bad customer service, they’ll share that with 7 connections. […]

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Downsizing with Dignity

With oil prices dipping below $45 a barrel, economic downturn and job stability are major concerns for business owners, executives and employees at all levels of the organization. While multinational corporations are making headlines for mass employee layoffs, the drop in oil price is affecting organizations of all sizes in various industries, and downsizing has […]

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2015 Employer Wish List

What do your employees want from you in 2015? Which of their needs are satisfied and which are lacking? These are questions all managers should be consistently asking. Knowing the answers to these is part of incorporating Strategic HR into your organizational goals and vision for the coming year. We, at Salopek & Associates, took […]

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Employee Engagement vs. Happiness

The term ‘employee engagement’ is getting a lot of airtime these days. Social media feeds are bombarded with articles (‘6 Ways to Increase Employee Engagement’) expressing the importance of engaging our employees. But something is missing, and that is clarity of definition. Unlike common belief, engagement is not employee happiness, or satisfaction. Neither of these […]

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Redefining Employee Compensation

Be The Employer of Choice Gone are the days when more money meant additional interest from candidates. Companies are quickly realizing that, in order to effectively attract and retain quality employees, they must redefine their offering to ensure they are paying attention to what employees really want in the area of compensation. Perfect Package A […]

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