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How Strict Goals and Expectations Can Help Effective Hiring
You can’t expect new hires to do a great job if they aren’t sure what constitutes a great job. In fact, you’re not even likely to land the best candidates, if you can’t clearly communicate what their...
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Five Things Every First-Time Supervisor Should Know
How exciting! You’ve worked hard, and now you’re taking on your first supervisory position. You know you can handle it, but you also know things change once you become “the boss.” Feeling like you...
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Learn How Text Messaging Can Aide Recruiters
Live, person-to-person communication is always a good thing. As a recruiter, you know that there’s a lot you can learn from hearing someone’s voice rather than just reading their words. But calling a...
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The Basics: Skills Every Employee Should Have
Finding the ideal candidate (or the ideal job) is no easy task. Candidates must possess specific knowledge and technical skills. In many cases, hands-on experience is a requirement, too. As is cultural...
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The Ideal Personality for Insurance Producers
Selling insurance is not for everyone. Not by a long shot. It is one of the most challenging positions, requiring not only product knowledge and sales-specific skills but personal attributes such as...
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Is a candidate passionate about the position?
The last thing any employer wants is to hire someone who merely wants a J-O-B to fund their lifestyle. This is a person who is going to do the least, with minimal enthusiasm, and likely little or no...
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When to blame HR for low performance
When an employee isn’t performing as desired, our first response is usually to blame them. Is there a functional, job-related problem that can be fixed, or does he just have a bad attitude? Or we blame...
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Employee Benefits Trends of 2017
Employee benefits present an ongoing challenge for companies of all sizes. Employers know that an attractive benefits package can be a significant asset when it comes to recruiting and retaining top...
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Why is Self-Insurance Gaining Popularity for Businesses
Self-funded insurance plans are becoming increasingly popular among employers of all sizes. Once thought to be a viable solution only for the largest of companies, changes in health care regulations...
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What is Stop Loss Insurance and How Does it Work?
Stop loss insurance is exactly what the name implies – a policy that enables your business to predictably cap expenses for employee medical bills. It’s a specialized type of coverage designed to...
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Employee Benefits Costs On the Rise: What it Means for Employers
According to an article published in Fortune magazine last year, health care costs are projected to increase 6.5% this year, about the same as last year. In a sense, this is good news, because the...
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Is Cybersecurity Becoming a Concern for Employer Policies and Plans?
Cybersecurity has become a priority concern for every type and size of business, not to mention government entities, and not only here in the US. Hardly a day goes by that we don’t hear of another...
View ArticleAdvice for Employee Benefits Insurance Companies
The employee benefits landscape has changed significantly in recent years. These changes affect employers who sponsor benefits programs and their workers who receive those benefits. But employee...
View ArticleThe Faces Behind Employee Benefits Digital Transformation
Recently, we published a blog article about the rising costs of employee benefits. We noted that employers blame increasing healthcare costs primarily on specialty pharma benefits, high-cost claimants,...
View ArticleDental Insurance: The Benefit That’s Making Everyone Smile
While medical health plans have long been the mainstay of most benefits programs, dental coverage has typically fallen somewhere between low-priority and non-existent. Now however, as employers search...
View ArticleWhatever Happened to the 40-Hour Work Week?
How many hours per week do you work? 50? 60? 80? Odds are, it’s more than 40. So whatever happened to the 40-hour work week? That’s a hot topic right now. Depending on who you talk to, it’s either long...
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How the New Tax Law Affects Employee Benefits
Everyone is scrambling to figure out what the new federal tax law means, and that includes HR and benefits managers. Even the Internal Revenue Service has been working overtime to create and...
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Cost Shifting: Change of Heart?
Some employers are now re-thinking one of the biggest trends in health insurance benefits in recent years: cost shifting. Over the past several years, companies have tried to address rising...
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Engage Millennials in Benefits and Everyone Benefits
Benefits are beneficial only if you’re offering perks that are meaningful to your employees and they actually advantage of those perks. As an employer, you cannot simply publish a list of the usual...
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Spencer James Group Trends in Insurance Industry Recruiting
An improving economy is a good development, for every industry and for many reasons. Yet, even as it opens more doors for job-seekers, it can make a recruiter’s job considerably more difficult. Add...
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