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Tips from a Bitter Temp

When I tell people I work at an insurance company, I feel I need to explain myself. Sure, I work in insurance, but I'm "in insurance" about as much as a Giants Stadium security guard is "in professional football." See, I'm a temp. An outsider. My industry? Survival.

I perform and write comedy, which in my case is not lucrative. So I temp and do my funny business on the side. Since moving to New York I've strung together about a dozen long-term temp gigs at big-time, fancy-pants companies. Now, a year after settling in, I still don't know a thing about insurance. But I know a whole lot about surviving in a bureaucracy. Here are five tips from a bitter temp:

Read them here.
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Best Employee Retention Strategies

Paul Cline, Founder, Advanced Training Seminars, asks, over on LinkedIn:
I would like people to contact me with their BEST and most CREATIVE Employee Retention Strategies. What are the best ways to keep employees happy and fulfilled at their jobs? Thanks!!! - Paul

Read all the answers here.
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Signs You Don't Care about Workers

How to gauge whether your company's happy talk about employees being its best asset has any basis in reality.

It has become a sad cliché: "Our People are our Greatest Asset." That hackneyed phrase doesn't mean anything in particular, so it's an easy bit of boilerplate to stamp on hallway posters and marketing brochures. When certain employers do elevate their talent-retention and team-welfare initiatives to the level of strategic priority, it's obvious.
Here are a Top Six not-walking-the-walk red flags:
1. The talent chief is a half-chief.
2. HR is a finance function.
3. Recruitment is a black hole.
4. HR is a cost-reduction unit.
5. You've outsourced the most critical people functions.
6. Org development and HR aren't one.
Read more here.
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Loin Girding

Interesting LinkedIn question:
What are some talking points for managers to discuss with their subordinates regarding what to do if they are approached by a competitor to recruit them? One of our major competitors just announced publicly that they are going to start targeting experienced employees from their competitors. What can I do to help prepare our managers for when/if their subordinates are targeted?
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Original question and answers here.
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