Employee Articles

The sweltering heat of summer is upon us. For plumbers working out in the field, hot days can be both exhausting and...

You have probably done many interviews at this point in your career. You post a job ad, find a handful of good...

Unemployment continues to plague many veterans once they leave the military. Despite their years of dedicated service and a wide variety of...

It is a widely held belief in business that if you aren’t growing, you’re dying. Growth is exciting in a lot of...

“You will never get a second chance to make a first impression.”That famous quote attributed to Will Rogers is why the people...

Unless you are naturally pessimistic, you probably don’t spend too much time thinking about disaster hitting your business. But the reality is...

It isn’t the truly terrible employees who cause the real problems. Whether clearly incompetent or unbelievably lazy, they’re easy to spot. With...

As the baby boomers — those born between 1946 and 1964 — retire in droves, and Generation X — born between 1965...

As an employer, you don’t always know what your team members are dealing with in their private lives. When there is a...

Interviews can provide great insight. But do you know what a potential new hire is really thinking? Sometimes you don’t. That’s why the undercover interview...

My background is in business — design, marketing, community relations, business development. They’re all important to running a business of any kind....

It’s important that you have a happy workforce. A happy workforce means better retention, which means much less time and money spent...

If you found a treasure map that you knew for sure would lead to a pile of treasure, would you follow it?...

For years, Cary Hansen felt like he owned just a job while running his business, Hansen’s Plumbing & Mechanical in Ventura, California....