Motivation energizes our efforts to keep taking the actions that lead to placements. Money has never been a true motivator for me. It's a nice reward for sure, but once there's plenty of money around the moment of truth arrives for each Recruiter. What is it that makes us want to do our job well?

A long time ago I put together a little system in my own brain that keeps me on track.

Motivation energizes our efforts to keep taking the actions that lead to placements. Money has never been a true motivator for me. It's a nice reward for sure, but once there's plenty of money around the moment of truth arrives for each Recruiter. What is it that makes us want to do our job well?

A long time ago I put together a little system in my own brain that keeps me on track.

Outsourcing occurs when a business secures (purchases) products and/or services from a third party, as opposed to producing them in-house. There are several advantages and disadvantages to outsourcing.

Advantages of Outsourcing
One of the biggest advantages can be lower personnel costs. By outsourcing job duties to non-employees, a business does not have to pay consistent wages or offer additional employee benefits.

Outsourcing occurs when a business secures (purchases) products and/or services from a third party, as opposed to producing them in-house. There are several advantages and disadvantages to outsourcing.

Advantages of Outsourcing
One of the biggest advantages can be lower personnel costs. By outsourcing job duties to non-employees, a business does not have to pay consistent wages or offer additional employee benefits.

A professional employer organization, or "PEO", is an entity that provides a spectrum of administrative services to businesses that are too small or just don't want to do it themselves. These services include payroll processing, workers' compensation insurance, employee benefits administration and human resources services.

They are able to do what they do via a process called "employee leasing".

In Chinese, the word for crisis has two characters. One character is for "problem," the other for "opportunity." As absenteeism, disability claims and employee turnover increase, we find ourselves in a workplace health-care crisis.

In a 2001 study entitled, Increasing Participation in Corporate Wellness Programs: A Segmentation Study of Employee Differences, Paula Haynes of the University of Tennessee underlines how important it is to provide a wide variety of services in corporate health and wellness programs to address our healthy workplace crisis.

Emotional health is a state of wellness that comes from understanding and acknowledging our emotions and finding appropriate ways to express them. As employees, we often bring emotional problems from our childhood or current family life into the workplace because we haven't dealt with them effectively outside of work. This can seriously damage workplace relationships and lead to poor performance and negative feelings all around.

Induction programs have traditionally been based upon providing new starters with the information and skills they need to successfully perform their new roles as well as covering off compliance and policy issues. This focus means organisations can miss the opportunity to positively engage their new starters. Consider the following:

* In the current jobs market it has become increasingly difficult to attract and retain the best people;
* Organisations recognise the importance of selecting the right people and invest significant resources into recruitment;
* Jobseekers identify the most attractive employer attribute as "An employers reputation for looking after and valuing their employees"; and
* Research shows nearly 25% of new starters decide by the end of the first week how long they will stay with the organisation and over 50% have made that decision by the end of their first month.

Induction programs have traditionally been based upon providing new starters with the information and skills they need to successfully perform their new roles as well as covering off compliance and policy issues. This focus means organisations can miss the opportunity to positively engage their new starters. Consider the following:

* In the current jobs market it has become increasingly difficult to attract and retain the best people;
* Organisations recognise the importance of selecting the right people and invest significant resources into recruitment;
* Jobseekers identify the most attractive employer attribute as "An employers reputation for looking after and valuing their employees"; and
* Research shows nearly 25% of new starters decide by the end of the first week how long they will stay with the organisation and over 50% have made that decision by the end of their first month.

Employers often hire workers and categorize them as independent contractors to avoid paying overtime, taxes, and complying with other federal and state labor and employment related laws. In overtime cases the courts and the administrative agencies do not automatically accept the idea that a worker is not entitled to overtime rights by simply categorizing the worker as an independent contractor.