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Job Search Activities 2008
Percentage of employers reporting their employees' job search activities and employees reporting activities.
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Harvard MBAs
Median base salary by industry destinations for Harvard MBAs, class of 2007.
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Salary Increase Projections for 2008
Budgeting for most companies involves estimating where salaries are going in the external market and planning to remain competitive.
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Mileage Survey - December 2007
Strategies to Reduce Turnover
We invite you to view a short powerpoint presentation on “Ways to reduce turnover and improve employee satisfaction”.
Articles...
We Can't Keep New Employess After We Hire And Train Them. What's Wrong?
By: Margot Uson
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In the News...
Here is what the media has written about AlternaSolutions.
To give or not to give? That's the office question.
“Karen Mallett has heard plenty of stories over the years about workplace gift-giving gone awry. The one that stands out...” Read full article by Diane Sewell of the Globe and Mail
Did you know...
RECENT ATTRACTION AND RETENTION STATSHere are the programs that have been used in recent months to attract and keep people, According to a WorldatWork study of about 2,720 companies of various sizes. |
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Sign-on/hiring bonus |
64 percent |
Employee referral bonus |
63 percent |
Market adjustments/increase to base salary |
60 percent |
Spot bonus (individual) |
43 percent |
Retention/stay bonus |
30 percent |
Paying above market |
28 percent |
Stock option program |
25 percent |
Special cash bonus/group incentives (not organization-wide) |
19 percent |
Project milestone/completion bonus |
17 percent |
Exempt overtime pay or time off |
15 percent |
Separate salary structures |
12 percent |
Stock grant programs |
10 percent |
Larger merit increase budgets |
9 percent |
Paid sabbaticals |
3 percent |