How Will “Hire American” Affect Your Business?

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On April 18 President Trump signed a new executive order aimed at forcing business to prioritize American candidates. The Hire American order proposes changes to the H-1B skilled visa program. Each year the H-1B program awards visas to thousands of skilled workers, many of them in the tech industry or other STEM fields, to work […]

Ep 114 – How Gap Inc. Uses Virtual Reality in Recruiting & Hiring

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Experts estimate that the virtual reality and augmented reality market will be worth $120 billion by 2022. Earlier this year we had technology expert, Robert Scoble on the Workology Podcast who talked about how virtual reality could change workplace collaboration and training, but what about recruiting? Universities like Princeton are already using virtual reality as part of […]

Handling an Employee Resignation

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As the founder of Proven, a small business job board, I’ve fortunately not had to deal with too many employee resignations and none of them have been particularly sour departures, but it is an inevitable consequence of being a manager and business owner. It’s easy to have an emotional reaction and feelings of rejection when […]

If You Can’t Commit, Just Quit

I have the pleasure of owning my own business. While this comes with a heckuva lot of headaches and anxiety, it does come with some inherent bonuses: I own what I do! I am committed! I am all in! I gave a presentation a few weeks ago in which I talked about my belief that employees need […]

5 Leaders Share Lessons for First-Time Managers

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Good leadership is an essential for any successful company, but it’s not always easy for junior or first-time managers to adapt to their role. Many times, leaders look back on their career and have a whole host of new insights and knowledge they wish they’d known all along. When we started Impraise 3 years ago, […]