Actual Comment from Employees Who Left: “Never given the opportunity to advance. It seemed only friends would advance. Supervisors knew who got the job before interviews were given.” “My manager explicitly told me many times that I was fulfilling the duties of the...
An Actual Comment from an Employee who Left: “Yes, training lacked with new technology. Those of us who did not grow up with the new technology were not given a reasonable amount of time to learn.” “I wish the department was able to have us go to certification...
A change in manager can easily derail existing employees as they try to understand how to work successfully with their new manager. As we see in the below example, this could potentially lead to employee turnover. “We got a brand new manager who had no experience in...
An Actual Comment from an Employee Who Left: “I can’t continue to work at the maximum pay scale for another 15 years! What a joke. I deserve more pay and respect.” The Solution These comments are exactly the data that HSD Metrics can find with their ExitRight Employee...
You didn’t see it coming. A promising employee just put in her two weeks’ notice. You’re surprised, then you remember the long lunch she took last week and the two personal days the week before that. Then the light bulb goes off – the signs were there. A...
For many in-house HR departments, checking references can be a task that requires more time than they have in the day, with all of their other responsibilities. Most traditional routines yield vague answers, waste resources, and fail to collect any actionable...
For employers, unnecessarily high employee turnover is something you should try to avoid. Employee turnover can be both expensive and time-consuming, as you are then required to start a new candidate search and train a new employee. High employee turnover deprives...
Gauging employee engagement can be tough for company HR departments working internally. For many companies, the easiest and most effective way to measure employee engagement is with the help of an employee engagement survey vendor. These surveys allow employers to...
For every company, finding the right candidates for your open positions is a crucial task. One of the essential steps you must take to ensure that you are choosing the best candidate is to conduct reference checks. With the help of HSD Metris’ reference checking...
In-house human resource departments have a lot on their plates. Not only do they design and manage a high number of HR systems, policies, and practices while also influencing highly engaged-high performance work cultures, but they are also responsible for handling...
Not all exit interview consultants are created equal. Just like any other service provider, there are bad apples out there in the human resource metric provider world. HSD Metrics® is not perfect (no one is), but we consider ourselves one of the good guys. Our...
Employee retention programs look different for each company. Ideally, they are the result of a thorough examination of your company’s needs and your employees’ feedback. However, there are a few consistently popular approaches to employee retention programs. Can one...
