Dr. Nicole C. Scott, SPHR, CPC, ACC

Trust is Key in Recession Proofing Your Business What do Google, Amazon, Walmart, Microsoft, Spotify, Netflix, Ford, Tesla, Twitter, Meta, Peloton, Coinbase, CVS, Uber, Carvana, Robinhood, Nestle, QVC, Zillow, Expedia, and Game Stop all have in common? They, among many other companies, have gone through at least one round of layoffs or a hiring slowdown or freeze in the pastRead more

Beyond the Benefits Package: Offering Employees A Better Quality of Life At the turn of the 20th century, life expectancy was roughly 30 years and most people worked as craftsmen or as farmers.  They only stopped working when they no longer were physically capable of doing the work.  No need for “retirement” funds or healthcare benefits.  If you lived toRead more

Photo by Andrea Piacquadio What Makes a Successful Remote Employee? Flexplace/flextime, workplace flexibility, remote work, work from home – call it what you want, but even before Covid-19 catapulted most office-bound employees into, what felt like at the time, the cosmos of remote work, the trend of workers wanting flexibility in where, how, and when they work was already growing. Read more

Photo by Jack Moreh Why Learning and Development Should Be an Individualized Process In my last article, Hiring The Wrong Leaders Is More Costly Than You Might Think! the true cost of hiring a bad manager and the value that hiring a good manager can bring to a company. Now, let’s turn our attention to leader development. The Current StateRead more

How to Build Inclusive Career Development Programs The career development process is typically based on the notion of person-role fit and involves identifying an individual's skills, abilities, and interests; understanding personality, values, and beliefs; and then matching these variables with appropriate potential jobs or next-steps in their career development journey. However, research has revealed that, while this process holds true,Read more

Leadership Hiring: The Cost of a Bad Hire & How to Prevent it Every HR professional who is connected to talent acquisition knows that cost per hire and time to hire are two key metrics used to measure the efficiency of the recruitment process, but it only represents a fraction of the potential true cost of making a bad hire.Read more

Why You Should Hire for the Ability to Learn Covid has magnified some of the biggest recruitment challenges and created truly historic talent acquisition and management conditions. The Great Resignation/Shuffle, the Gig economy, remote work, mental health at work, and the renewed war for talent have all sent chills down the spines of HR professionals everywhere.  Even pre-Covid, some ofRead more

Hiring Talent: What Makes a Bad hire? Hiring successful people on the job is a difficult and complex process.  It involves trying to predict, through some structured process, who matches the requirements of the role and who does not.  To make matters worse, the Harvard Business Review reported that only about one-third of employers are actually monitoring whether their hiringRead more

High Employee Turnover: How Businesses Can Reduce it Employee turnover isn’t just on the rise, it is on fire.  In April of 2021, the US Department of Labor reported the highest recorded voluntary separation rate in history at 2.7%.  Then, just a few months later, in August, the US hit a new record of 2.9%.  September broke the record again

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