In my conversations with business and human resources leaders on the topic of student loan paydowns as an employee benefit, I sometimes get asked the question “Why don’t I just give my employees more cash instead and let them figure out where to spend it?” The...
by Roxanna Coldiron Congratulations! You’ve graduated from college with several job offers in hand. Having your degree and now a job in your field happens to be one of the greatest feelings in the world. But you don’t have to accept the first job offer that...
Millennials will be overtaking the world soon. Confusion abounds as to who qualifies as a Millennial, but the designation generally falls on those born toward the later half of the 1980s to near the end of the 1990s. Today’s Millennials cover a wide range of...
by Roxanna Coldiron When Millennials first entered the workforce, many employers dismissed them as unqualified and refused to hire them. Companies didn’t want to have to train new workers who had little to no experience in the field, and they certainly didn’t want to deal with...
by Roxanna Coldiron Ready or not, Millennials have begun to take over the workforce. The Millennial generation, those born between 1981 and 1997, possess a 38 percent chunk of the workforce in various industries throughout the United States and have already surpassed Baby Boomers as the...
by Roxanna Coldiron Imagine this scenario. On Monday, the department supervisor discovers that an employee has been looking for another job. Perhaps the employee left evidence of their job search on their desk or had not been discreet about their job searching activities on LinkedIn. Um...
by Roxanna Coldiron When a valued employee decides to leave the company, the age-old wisdom has been to conduct an exit interview to find out why that employee has chosen to leave. The typical process for this interview involves asking the employee standardized questions about their...
College expenses continue to rise, and many new graduates will enter the workforce with thousands of dollars in student loan debt. Older employees might have children and grandchildren who will be attending college in the future and will want some way to save money for...
Student loan debt repayment assistance might be the perfect perk that employers should offer if they want to attract today’s top graduates and best talent. Bloomberg referred to student debt repayment as the “hot, new company benefit,” and employers that offer it have begun to realize...
Your employees might not know what a Chief Financial Officer, or CFO, does on a regular basis, or why the CFO is so important to the success of the company. The CFO uses his or her knowledge of accounting and combines it with business strategy...