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Learn how to build the most critical part of your business--your employees. Let Smart Hiring Take You to the Next Level! Finding and keeping the right employees is critical to the success of your company. But with the tangle of legal and practical issues involved, the hiring process is often littered with mistakes--mistakes that can cost you money, customers, and your reputation. Smart Hiring at the Next Level helps you sidestep the pitfalls that...
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Topics in this program include: recruitment, human resources, workforce, planning, selection, insurance and industry. Videos in this playlist include: --pt. 1: An Essential Guide to Recruitment & Selection. Recruitment should be seen not just as a process of filling vacancies, but as a part of workforce planning generally. The first stage in filling a vacancy is to define the vacancy the job description. The selection procedure varies from simply...
4) The 2020 workplace: how innovative companies attract, develop, and keep tomorrow's employees today
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From well-respected human resources and corporate training experts Jeanne C. Meister and Karie Willyerd, a must-read guide to the innovative strategies that the best companies are using to create a workplace that the best talent chooses-both today and in 2020. In The 2020 Workplace, Meister and Willyerd offer a battle plan to start winning tomorrow's employees today.
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According to recent statistics by the U.S. Department of Labor, 26.7 percent of the population volunteers. Unfortunately, while the population is increasing, the percentage of Americans who volunteer is decreasing each year. What this means is that you must hang onto and keep your volunteers happy and coming back, perhaps bringing new volunteer recruits with them.This new book is packed with hundreds of simple and inexpensive ways to motivate, challenge,...
8) Boys among men: how the prep-to-pro generation redefined the NBA and sparked a basketball revolution
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"When Kevin Garnett shocked the world by announcing that he would not be attending college--as young basketball prodigies were expected to do--but instead enter the 1995 NBA draft directly from high school, he blazed a trail for a generation of teenage basketball players to head straight for the pros. That trend would continue until the NBA instituted an age limit in 2005, requiring all players to attend college or another developmental program for...
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"A young French journalist's riveting and unprecedented look at how today's most ruthless terrorists use social media and technology to reach disaffected youth--witnessed through the undercover investigation that led to her deep involvement with a key member of ISIS, "--Novelist.
10) The German wife
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Berlin, 1934. Ilse Meyer is the aristocratic wife of a scientist whose post-WWI fortunes change for the better when Ilse's husband, Jurgen, is recruited for Hitler's new rocket program. Although Ilse and Jurgen do not share the popular political views rising in Germany, Jurgen's new job forces them to consider what they must sacrifice morally for their financial security. But too late they realize the Nazi's plans to weaponize Jurgen's technology...
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The “remarkable” story of America's secret post-WWII science programs (The Boston Globe), from the New York Times bestselling author of Area 51.
In the chaos following World War II, the U.S. government faced many difficult decisions, including what to do with the Third Reich's scientific minds. These were the brains behind the Nazis' once-indomitable war machine. So began...Author
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The riveting story of two sisters' journey to the Islamic State and the father who tries to bring them home. Asne Seierstad puts the problem of radicalization into painfully human terms, using instant messages and other primary sources to reconstruct a family's crisis from the inside. Eventually, she takes us into the hellscape of the Syrian civil war, as Sadiq risks his life in pursuit of his daughters, refusing to let them disappear into the maelstrom....
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For the past decade, an audacious program called Football Dreams has held tryouts for millions of young boys across Africa, looking for soccer's next superstars. Sebastian Abbot follows a small group of the boys, weaving together the drama of the boys' determination to chase their dreams with the latest ideas on talent spotting and predicting sporting success, Abbot memorably explores why some of the boys succeed and chronicles the heartbreak of those...
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Personal stories behind the doctors' crisis in rural Australia. Dr Mary Fortune leaves her home, family and friends in Scotland to answer the cries for help from the mining town of Kalgoorlie, in WA. Despite knowing she will miss her son, and husband of 22 years, Dr Mary is excited about the challenge of moving to Kalgoorlie and optimistic about what the experience will be like.--Kanopy.
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As Nabilah's mentoring proceeds in Wagin, it is clear she is not meeting Dr Majid's expectations. Already feeling the pressure, Nabilah is pressed even further when a patient at the hospital dies. Meanwhile in the small town of Dalwallinu, news of Dr Mary Fortune's arrival in Kalgoorlie reaches local doctor, Dr Simon Wamono, and he makes a plea for help.--Kanopy.
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Great companies, large and small, rise or fall because of their talent; the more high performers on your team, the more successful your organization will be. Of course, that's easier said than done. Research shows that only about 25% of all new hires turn out to be high performers.
But companies that have used Brad Smart's Topgrading system over the past two decades have boosted their hiring success rates dramatically-sometimes even to 90%.
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John Russell series volume 1
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In 1939, journalist John Russell struggles to survive with integrity in Berlin as Nazi, Soviet and British intelligence attempt to recruit him.
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