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Unlike Baby Boomers and Gen Xers, younger generations are not expected to stay with one job or with a single employer their entire lives. In fact, Millennials and Gen Zers—two demographics that make up most of the workforce today—are taught…
Attracting and engaging job seekers is not much different from the consumer-facing aspect of business. With a limited pool of talent, employers often compete for the attention of promising candidates in the same way businesses do for buyers. As such,…
Filipino workers from all sectors and industries are no strangers to being unemployed. In fact, historical data from Trading Economics shows that the unemployment rate in the country averaged 8.44 percent from 1994 to 2018. It even reached a record…
Many critical HR tasks either start with or require communication. As a practitioner, you have a rather diverse audience: executives, middle managers, rank-and-file employees, stakeholders, and even prospective members of your organization. And because communication sits at the core of…
If there’s one thing that statistics clearly tells us, it’s that sexual harassment continues to be a major source of concern in the Philippines and all over the world. A survey by the Social Weather Stations (SWS) and the United…
Working in Human Resources often means having to overcome one roadblock after another. If you’re the type who likes keeping the company’s goals in mind, a day in the life of an HR practitioner would give you a soul-crushing list…
Workplace productivity is hard to come by these days, but it’s not hard to see why that’s the case. We live in an age of competing priorities: an age when we’re faced with both tougher demands and more distractions at…
As someone who works in HR, you don’t have to be reminded of the importance of training in one’s career. It’s something you’re expected to advocate; something you know by heart. Learning and development (L&D), after all, are a crucial…
When life gives you lemons, do you rise up to the challenge and make a lemonade? Whether you do or don’t may be predicted by your adversity quotient (AQ), which measures your ability to deal with roadblocks and rock bottoms. How…