BC Business contacted Clear HR Consulting for advice and expertise for their feature article on hiring from within and its impact on employee retention. Here’s what Cissy Pau had to say about the challenges for small businesses in keeping staff they’ve invested in: “You’ve basically trained them up so they can join another company and [...]
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Employer Branding: How Small Businesses Can Win The Talent Wars
Small business owners may believe it difficult to win the war for talent and attract employees to their company. However, there are ways for small businesses to compete with large employers and set themselves apart – the key is to create an engaging employer brand. Small business owners put a lot of focus on building a [...]
Does Your Work Environment Help You Thrive?
A recent read of the New York Times best-selling author Dan Buettner’s “Thrive – Finding Happiness the Blue Zones Way” about world-wide research into the principles of contentment and satisfaction got us thinking. How can we apply the research of thriving to the workplace and to business success? Given we spend much of our daily [...]
Quittin’ Time – MacLeans’ Best Employers Edition
MacLeans’ magazine, Canada’s only national weekly current affairs magazine, contacted Vancouver-based Clear HR Consulting for human resources expertise and advice for an article on retaining talent in 2011. One of the tips offered by Cissy Pau, principal consultant of Clear HR Consulting, was to ask employees what changes would keep them in their jobs. When [...]