Smart Reference for
Your Smart Phone
HR at Your Fingertips is a mobile
application that offers easy access to a
glossary of human resource terms, information on relevant federal laws, and
guidance on how to create an employee
handbook.
Available for iPhone or iPad, the app
includes more than 270 terms and their
definitions; essential federal laws, qualifying events, and exceptions; and more.
Resources are kept up-to-date by a dedicated team of HR professionals.
The HR at Your Fingertips app also
includes instructions on how to write
an employee handbook. This section
walks you through several topics that
should be covered in the
handbook and provides
pointers on remaining
compliant. hratyourfin-
gertips.com, $1.99
Get a Guide to
Job Sites
When you want to
find specialized information on the Internet, a general search
engine may not be
the most helpful tool.
Find out which sites the high-quality
candidates are visiting. Get the directory
that lists the types of sites you’re likely to
Business Shortcuts
Roundup of strategic resources
use most often. Weddle’s 2011–12 Guide
to Employment Sites on the Internet is an
“Internet address book” of more than
10,000 job boards and career sites.
The latest edition of the directory has
been revised and redesigned. The “Top
100” section features the top job boards
and career portals on the Web. The “Best
and the Rest” section offers a comprehensive directory of more than
10,000 employment sites.
The guide also provides
data on how many people
visit a site per month, the
number of résumés found
in a site’s database, the cost
to search résumés and post
a job, how many jobs are
posted on the site, whether
a site offers automatic notification of a job–résumé
match, and more. Weddle’s,
$49.95
Harness Untapped
Potential At Your Firm
“It seems that 80% of the
leaders of small to mid-sized
companies feel that they have
a well-defined and complete
strategy all mapped out and
effectively being followed
through upon,” writes Mark
auditing many of these plans is
that the vast majority of com-
panies don’t have a fleshed-out
strategy and are missing several
key elements.”
In his book Growth or Bust!
Proven Turnaround Strategies to Grow
Your Business, Faust aims to provide
readers with a process for dramatically
accelerating growth at their companies.
He proposes an attitude of aggressive
innovation and steps for effective strate-
gic planning that are based on his expe-
rience as a business consultant who has
worked with companies such as Apple,
IBM, and Procter & Gamble.
Improve Retention to
Improve Profits
The temporary staffing business has an
inherently high turnover rate (277% in
2010, according to ASA data). Various
studies suggest that the cost of turnover
ranges from three months’ salary for a
low-level employee to as high as 400%
of the annual salary of an upper-level
employee. To save costs, staffing firms
need to keep turnover rates low among
their internal staff.
Jeff Kortes says he can help companies
keep their best employees. In his book,
No Nonsense Retention: Painless Strategies
to Retain Your Best People, Kortes writes,
