Your Money: Cash Left on the Health Care Table

The year-end surge in patients seeking vision exams and prescription eye wear being reported by several metro area optometrists has little to do with patients’ declining eyesight. It’s mostly because of the unused cash in their health care spending accounts. Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs) were designed to help employees put aside pre-tax dollars….

Retention is Not Rocket Science

I recently had an occasion to speak with a young man whose first job out of college is on the sales front lines in a fast growing technology company.  I was hearing about the many organizational issues that face him, including unclear job responsibilities, evolving pay plans, and “who’s on first” type confusion.  My first [...]

A bigger slice: Using contractors to carry more of the workload brings profits, potential pitfalls

by Michael Hunter, Atlanta Business Chronicle According to a 2009 CareerBuilder.com survey of 2,700 employers, 30 percent expected to hire freelancers or contract employees in 2010, up from 28 percent in 2009. That statistic makes a lot of sense to Melissa Packman, CEO of addONE Marketing Solutions LLC, an Atlanta firm that provides contract workers [...]

Beware of Internal Transfer Traps

By Steve Taylor When a Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) member recently sought the guidance of fellow HR professionals on SHRM’s HR Talk bulletin board, respondents got straight to the point. The question was: If a worker who was on the verge of being terminated for “issues with stealing” and “not following manager instructions” [...]

Should Your Next Job be an Interim Executive Role?

By Marji McClure, CareerSmart Advisor For most executives in transition, the end goal is landing a new full-time position in their industry. But many are starting to find that short-term (or interim) assignments are a viable career option that can provide the salary and work experience they need as they continue their quest for a [...]

Why the Time is Right to Tap into C-Level Talent

It’s been nearly two years since the U.S. economy skidded into recession, and the overall unemployment level remains in the double-digit range. While the construction industry finds itself at the top of the unemployment pile, white-collar jobs such as those in the information sector recently posted a sobering unemployment rate of 10.4%, according to a [...]

Atlanta MIT Forum Event Draws “New Talent”

TechJournal South recently featured HR Strategies & Solutions’ President Peter Rosen. The article highlighted the CEO Council/MIT Forum’s New Talent Exchange held April 1, 2010 at Buckhead Gordon Biersch restaurant. The New Talent Exchange was designed to help those new to the working world get a foothold in the Atlanta technology community by bringing them together [...]

Building — and Being a Part of — the “A” Team

By Marji McClure As we continue to see small signs of an economic recovery, the most successful organizations will position themselves for success — in both products and people — once the official rebuilding begins in earnest. One of the most important components executives need to focus on is ensuring that they have a team [...]

Older Workers & Younger Employees

California’s Modesto Bee recently featured HR Strategies & Solutions’ President Peter Rosen. The article focused on how older workers can successfully re-enter the workforce, and tells the story of one returning sergeant from the Army National Guard. Rosen reminds candidates that often the perception of age is as important as actual age. And that by [...]

Having Problems Getting Ahead?

How to Recognize and Overcome Key Leadership Career Derailers We all know at least one person who has been pigeon-holed in the same mid-management job for the past twenty years. He works well, gets things done on time, and doesn’t make waves, but he doesn’t make any real professional progress either. What’s preventing his upward [...]

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