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How to Use Social Media for Recruiting
Social media is now a pervasive force on the Internet and, for good or for ill, millions of us have posted profiles of ourselves on such sites.
But for business, social media represents two kinds of challenges. The first is how your company should portray itself on these sites. The second is how your company should use these sites for recruiting and what and how much information should be used in recruiting and hiring candidates.
Click here for a guide to using social media for recruiting.
Training Your Manufacturing Workforce
As Baby Boomers retire, manufacturing companies are finding it hard to find replacements for skilled labor positions, something that has been an ongoing problem.
The shortage of skilled workers is becoming more and more common, especially for such jobs as CNC programmers, electrical and mechanical technicians, and machinists. More than 60 percent of the manufacturing businesses polled recently reported a moderate to severe shortage of skilled labor. More than three-fourths of the companies expected the shortage to get worse over the next three to five years.
Click here to see how some manufacturers are taking a more proactive stance by partnering with educational institutions to train new workers.
Are You Covered? Your Business and EPL Insurance
Many companies carry various types of liability insurance to protect their business.
A General Liability policy covers basic situations such as property damage, injuries and advertising claims. A Professional Liability policy covers a business against an employee who acts unprofessionally as well as against legal agreements and problems from bad agreements, or those that are negligent. A Product Liability policy covers consumers who might have been injured by a product or service.
More recently, insurance companies have been offering another type of insurance to protect businesses against claims made by employees and former employees. It's called employment practices liability insurance. It covers employers against various claims of discrimination and such things as charges of wrongful termination and sexual harassment.
Such claims are becoming more common, with more than 24,000 lawsuits filed against employers for discrimination in the late 1990s alone.
Click here for a guide to employment practice liability insurance for your business.
Working Lean is About People, Not Tools
"Thinking lean" has become a mantra among manufacturing businesses in order to increase efficiency and to stay competitive globally.
But thinking lean is about more than just learning the concepts associated with this strategy. It's also about adopting a whole lean mindset, a way of looking at the manufacturing process, according to one expert.
It's more than just putting the lean process in place and then following procedures. In order to make that process work the way it should, people need to think lean as well, says business consultant Jason Piatt.
Click below to learn how to get the most out of the lean system.
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