Human Capital
-
Professional Services- Employee Utilization benchmarks
Gathering data on employee utilization (percentage of billable hours) benchmarks. Can you please share?
3
-
Disclosing Salary To Recruiters: Pros & Cons (Webinar Attendee Question)
If I get a call from talent acquisition team for a job that I didn't apply to and asked for salary, how should I respond? This question was asked by an attendee during the Proformative webinar "How to Win Your Compensation Negotiation" held on December 21, 2012. Please join the discussion and add …
3
-
Does your company have a severance policy in place?
Does your company have a severance policy in place? What is best practice in your industry?
12
-
Standard Recruiting Fees & Terms
Does anyone have data on technical recruiter fees in the San Francisco area? What I am looking for is the rates and payment terms.
1
-
5 Questions You Should Never Ask in a Job Interview
According to Catherine Conlan, Monster Contributing Writer, these 5 questions are major interview stoppers. http://career-advice.monster.com/job-interview/interview-questions/5-questions-never-to-ask-in-job-interview Do you agree? I don't 100% agree with all 5.
12
-
employee/job applicant credit checks
We use a service to do our background checks on job applicants, but I am hiring a controller and would like to do a credit check (I have the applicant's authorization to do so). Does anyone have a service they use as a matter of course when hiring? I plan to make this part of our standard hiring pr…
4
-
Not disclosing salary history on job application okay? (Webinar Attendee Question)
If a job application says disclosing prior salary is required, how do you get around that? This question was asked by an attendee during the Proformative webinar "How to Win Your Compensation Negotiation" held on December 21, 2012. Please join the discussion and add your insights below. A video…
2
-
What do the Best CPAs want their Clients to Know?
I am writing a two part series for our cost reduction newsletter and would welcome your insights to the question: What do the best CPAs want their clients to know. The target audience is chiefly (not exclusively) mid market CFOs and owners of privately held companies. I've received great feedback …
8
-
Relocation Policy
Does anyone have a relocaiton policy template I can use as a foundation for creating a new one. Thanks, Rick
3
-
Moving to Paid Time Off (PTO)
We are looking to move to paid time off (PTO) but we don't have any accruals on our books as of right now because we have a use it or lose it rule. How do you change the benefit and not hit the books by millions of dollars?
7
-
In implementing a whistle blower policy, what are some of the must-haves and what are some common pitfalls to avoid?
Many of the whistleblower templates are similar and seem pretty basic. I am interested in avoiding mistakes that others may have made in implementing a policy at their place of employment
3
-
Are Food & Beverage CFOs planning for minimum wage hike?
Outside of agriculture lodging, few industry sectors rely on minimum wage earners than the Food & Beverage industry. I assume they have built contingency forecasts for a minimum wage hike, but I wonder how they are communicating the possibility to different audiences – i.e. creditors vs. analys…
1
-
What are the telecommuting from home pros & cons for employers?
Yahoo's Marissa Mayer bans working remotely, which Forbes contributor Peter Cohan calls an "epic fail." At the very least it seems counter to the trend and a step back in time.
13
-
"Survivor Demotion"
When a Lower Level Job is Preferable to Layoff? This was the openning to a newsletter I get from Alan L. Sklover Employment Attorney and Career Strategist. His newsletters carry in my opinion great articles and generic legal precedents (mieage may be different in your state). His thesis sim…
10
-
Contract Employee and/or Consultant?
I am an experienced CFO who is currently engaged as an Interim Assistant Controller through a temporary agency. Due to high-level turnover at the client, the CFO and Controller have recently been promoted into their roles and there is a deficit in high-level institutional knowledge. I have become …
8
-
Any first-hand examples of incentive programs driving revenue growth?
I am CEO/CFO at Taico Productions in New York. I attended "How CFO's are Driving Growth conference held at the Cornell Club Feb 22nd. One of the concepts being explored by my company is the services of a vendor which provides the tools and incentive rewards system to motivate, engage and improve w…
3
-
How will your company comply with new medical premium rebate requirements, if a rebate is received from its medical insurance provider?
Beginning with the 2011 year of coverage -- based on the Affordable Care Act, medical insurance companies are required to spend a percentage of the premiums they receive for medical purposes vs. administrative. For the large group market the percentage, also known as the Medical Loss Ratio, is 85%…
11
Previous
