Human Resources Articles

This white paper focuses on how behavioral assessments can increase successful hiring and reduce costs. It will also examine the costs associated with selecting the wrong candidate within your organization and the elements that are at risk in terms of time, company performance and relationships.

This white paper focuses on how Drake Canada's innovative solutions can create a successful retention program that will reduce your staff turnover. It will also provide practical tips for developing a productive and happy workforce, discovering the causes for undesirable turnover, retaining your best staff and establishing effective employee retention tactics.

This white paper focuses on how successful planning can reduce the number of employment law incidents and rising costs within your organization. It also outlines the top 10 hiring and firing tips as presented by employment law experts, e2r Solutions on behalf of Drake.

This white paper focuses on how a successful Onboarding and Orientation process can significantly reduce the time it takes your new employees to become effective within your organization. It will also provide practical tips for developing and structuring your Onboarding and Orientation programs, building a team of top performers and helping your employees become effective faster.

This white paper focuses on how you can convert Exit Interviews into a valuable management tool. It will also examine the root causes of staff turnover, how to obtain open, honest and impartial feedback and how to structure an Exit Interview effectively and evaluate your ROI.

This white paper focuses on how Drake Canada's Advanced Profiling and Selection Solutions ensure the best screening and interviewing practices for your organization. It also provides practical tips for developing an effective candidate sourcing strategy, improving your resume screening practices, conducting clear and structured interviews and how to measure your ROI to build a successful process.

This white paper focuses on how to implement an effective Workplace Health and Safety Consulting Program in order to protect your company's liability, your personal liability and your employee's safety. It also examines the costs of an unsafe workplace, compliance and injury prevention, strategies for change and how to measure the ROI of your Accident Prevention Program.

This white paper focuses on the benefits of using Drake Online, a powerful and proprietary web-based tool that offers real-time visibility to staffing levels and expenditures. It also examines a framework for measuring and managing your contingent workforce, the hazards and inefficiencies within a traditional procurement process and how to implement a successful VMS solution for your organization.

This white paper focuses on achieving the optimum balance of staff to workload by reducing costs, increasing productivity and improving your organization's bottom line. Discover ways to right-size your labor force, control costs and boost productivity with Drake Canada's Workforce Optimization Solutions. This white paper will also outline the steps involved with implementing a flexible staffing model to deliver shareholder value.

In this white paper, we will discuss how you can reduce the number of bad hires with a properly executed reference and Background Checking Program.
Doing so will have a significantly positive impact on your organization’s performance and reputation, something that is well worth the investment of time and money.

This white paper focuses on how organizations can build highly effective teams composed of the right mix of people. It will also outline helpful and informative ways to understand the strengths of individuals and what they can contribute so that your organization's financial performance does not suffer. Low productivity, low morale, high confusion, apathy and rapid turnover are all signs of under performing teams and Drake Canada's Human Resources Consulting and Team Building Tools will enable your managers to create and manage teams to succeed.

Leadership is highly correlated with organizational success, profitability, retention of a high quality workforce and recruitment of the "brightest and the best". This white paper focuses on driving immediate business results by accelerating your leadership development. It also outlines how Drake Canada's HR Consulting Services and Team Building Tools will help your organization develop leaders who are focused on results, not just activities.

While many organizations proclaim that their people are the most important asset, a good many fail to act as though they believe it. This white paper will focus on Enterprise Surveys and how they can build an engaged employee workforce leading to higher productivity and lower turnover. This white paper will also outline how Drake's HR Consulting Services and Enterprise Survey Solutions will drive organizational productivity and profitability by better understanding your employees' views and concerns.

Scheduling and managing vacations, sick time and employee leaves of absence are a concern throughout the year but can be exasperated during holiday time. Failure to manage absenteeism can increase costs and failure to accurately track absences can lead to violations of labour law. This white paper will focus on Workforce Planning and the issues managers face with tracking and managing scheduled and unscheduled leaves of absences. This white paper will also outline how Drake Canada's Workforce Planning experts will audit, analyze and develop an end-to-end solution to proactively plan and manage your workforce needs.

Reviewing the performance of your employees is important. Whether it is done informally or on a frequent basis, effective performance reviews help to improve employee results and engagement. This white paper will focus on how Drake Canada's Career Performance and Development Solutions will drive organizational productivity and profitability to build organizational strength.

A huge shift is taking place in the demographics of the workforce because of the decline of baby births since 1964 and the increased longevity of the boomer generation. This white paper will focus on the fact that employers are realizing the value of recruiting and retaining the 50 plus age group because of their experience, knowledge and loyalty. It will also outline the myths and false perceptions about this age group and how we can embrace them as a valuable human asset. Read this white paper and find out how Prime50, a division of Drake Canada will assist your organization in effectively hiring a mature workforce.

In an increasingly competitive marketplace, business leaders are realizing that creating a passionate customer service experience will be a key differentiator, helping to capture and retain loyal customers. Human Resources practitioners are a strategic part of this change. Learn how Human Resources can move from management to leadership in this new profit model.

Is your organization equipped to professionally handle terminations while maintaining productivity, improving morale, and minimizing the chance of litigation? Terminating employees can be extremely stressful and traumatic for both management and employees. It requires special skills and thorough planning to ensure a smooth and successful outcome. For the employer, terminating an employee's service, if handled poorly, can negatively affect the company.

International recruiting solves talent shortages. "Smart companies know talent can be found and recruited all over the world". In a global economy the advantage of this is it can match opportunity to talent regardless of geography. International recruiting is generally no more costly than local hiring. And, it can fill otherwise persistent vacancies that often prevent organizations from accomplishing their mission. With the right partner, international recruiting can be the best solution by far - perhaps the only solution.

Hiring an employee is like making an important investment decision, with the candidate representing the 'human capital'. Like any investment decision, you want to make the right choice - the first time. Effective talent acquisition is a complex process. But by following these 10 key steps, you can help drive corporate performance and deliver the results your organization needs to compete and succeed.

The most advanced organizations in the world use human capital metrics and analytics tools to manage their workforce. These five key human capital metrics can help make sense out of the challenges and confusion of economic downturns and growth cycles. Avoid inadvertently cutting skills that would be critical to future success with these metrics, which provide visibility to understand and analyze the workforce and enable data driven decision making for the workforce.