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This is the first article in a two-part series on sales – one from the company perspective and one from the salesperson perspective. We are approaching the subject with sense of humor. You just HAVE to as sales is truly a necessary evil. New busi...

What we know now
Overview
The Always Confusing Act (ACA) may have adjusted this content. Feb. 14 brought a delay to the pay or play. For employers with 2-99 employees, they got a delay until 2016. Employers with 100 or more employees need to pay or pla...

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Handbook Revisions
Mary has been hired as the HR Director for a large manufacturing company. One of the first things the Company President, her boss, asks her to do is update the employee handbook. Seems like a ...

It starts at the top
Volunteering has always been a part of my life, so naturally I have created a culture at The Applied Companies that supports that activity. It is the right thing to do. The business benefits are numerous too, although it is not wit...

Last week The Applied Companies presented The Jim Annis Guide to Excellent Networking. This week we assist those new to networking or in unfamiliar situations - such as acquiring a new position in a different field or relocating. How do you capitalize ...

Jim Annis is President and CEO of The Applied Companies a northern Nevada corporation dedicated to managing the business of employing people. His experiences, as an entrepreneur and sixteen years in the staffing industry, have taught him the value of m...

I never advise my clients to do more with less, because you start to make choices that are not the right thing to do. Doing more with the “right” less – now that’s a philosophy to live by.
Are objectives clearly defined?
What ne...

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The company provides employees with a refrigerator to use in the lunch room.  Except for the occasional complaint (e.g. "My leftover meatloaf is missing!") there hasn't been any significant issue - until no...

Mobile Recruitment is the act of finding job candidates actively and passively through the use of mobile career pages and internet recruiting strategies through social platforms. Here’s a shocker – 1 BILLION job searches are done per m...

There are global forces of change that are and will affect businesses and the resulting job market over the next 40 years including: a global balance of power shift from West to East and North to South; resources and practices are protected (not open t...

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Let it snow...
The news reports all predict yet another winter storm. You know from past experience that the roads will be hazardous, people will likely stay home and that, therefore, you won't have a lot of cus...

“I am a people person; therefore I am not a numbers person.” We hear this all the time in the Human Resources (HR) world and encourage overcoming the “fear” of numbers to achieve career growth. The United States Securities and E...