Yoh's services offers our expert advice for tips on employee recruiting, HR management and workforce planning - reviewing, selecting and hiring candidates, as well as overall information on hiring trends and diversity in the workplace.

Reviewing Candidates

• Does He Play Well with Others?
  
• How to Interview: Ask the Right Questions
  
• The One-Question Interview
  
• Behavioral Reinvented
  
• Assessing Soft Skills
  

Selecting and Hiring Candidates

• Day One: A Manager's Checklist
  

Hiring Trends

• Tips for Managing Temps
  
• Prepare for a Shortage
  
• Five Companies Doing Something Right
  
• Calculate the Value of Talent
  

Diversity

• Getting Upper-Level Support for Diversity Initiatives
  
• The Bottom Line on Diversity
  
• Retain the Best with a Diversity-Friendly Workplace
  

White Papers

• Finding and Keeping Top Talent
  The top candidates in any industry are difficult to find and even more difficult to keep at your company. What can hiring managers do to attract and retain the best of the business? The answer may be more simple than ever imagined; tell the truth. Yes, honesty is the best policy, but it is too easy during the recruiting process to fluff job descriptions, exaggerate responsibilities or inflate the status of a department. More...
  
  
• Data Warehousing - Trends & Hot Jobs
  The IT industry is booming this year and acquiring the skills that are hot are on many hiring managers’ wish-lists. According to Spencer Lee, “Businesses throughout the U.S. are upgrading systems, developing new products and restarting projects.” Data warehousing is one of these projects.  More...
  
  
• EAI & Middleware - Trends & Hot Jobs
  One hot area requiring specialty skills is middleware and Enterprise Application Integration (EAI). Middleware is a term describing the software technology behind EAI, which connects two or more software applications so that they can exchange data. More...
  
  
• Enterprise Resource Planning - Trends & Hot Jobs
  Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems integrate organizational data and processes into a single, unified technology. A typical ERP system uses multiple components of computer software and hardware to achieve the integration. One key ingredient of most ERP systems is the use of a single, unified database to store data for the various system modules. More...
  
  
• Managing Co-Employment Risks
  Today's companies are utilizing temporary employees more than ever before. Over the past decade, the number of temporary employees has exploded from 500,000 to 2 million — or nearly 1.5% of the US workforce. This trend continues to grow exponentially, which has forced employers to take a closer look at employment law in this area. More...
  
  
• Fact or Fiction? The Top 5 Offshoring Myths
  Offshoring. Outsourcing. From CNN to blogs to talk radio, we all have heard a lot about offshoring and outsourcing. With information overload, it’s not easy to sift through all the data out there to see what’s fact and what’s fiction, especially when it comes to offshoring. More...
  
  
• 4 Ways to Accelerate Your IT Career
  The information technology industry is back—and more competitive than ever. Employers are eagerly dusting-off IT projects that have been shelved for years. Demand for IT professionals is growing across the board, in industries as varied as pharmaceuticals, banking, retail, and manufacturing. More...
  
  
• ASUG Impact Award to Yoh
  Yoh, a Day & Zimmermann company and a leading provider of talent and outsourcing solutions, has been awarded the 2004 Americas' SAP Users' Group (ASUG) Impact Award for the Yoh Exchange – its eBusiness portal for the temporary labor market. More...
  
  
• Winning Transition Processes
  Outsourcing provides companies with a tremendous opportunity to reduce costs, streamline processes and focus on core business objectives. Moving from a support solution populated by your own personnel, or even moving from one outsourcer to another, can be a tumultuous event. One of the best ways to mitigate this uncertainty is to engage an experienced team who will work to develop and implement a clear and customized solution. More...
  
  
• The 411 on 911
  Imagine a call center that requires no queue for all calls, an immediate response to all issues, and handles urgent calls that are not just technical, they involve life and death situations. 9-1-1 centers are challenged with this requirement every day. Help desk call centers can learn a great deal from their practices. More...
  
  
• Workplace Solutions for E911 Compliance
  Over the past several years the telecommunications industry has suffered downward trends caused by a variety of factors, including overcapacity and loss of subscribers, which forced companies to downsize in order to remain competitive. With limited staff, wireless companies are now scrambling to meet impending FCC deadlines pertaining to Enhanced 911 (E911) compliance. Conforming to E911 doesn't have to be an expensive proposition as there are a variety of staff augmentation and managed services More...
  
  
• 4 Things Every Hiring Manager Needs to Know About Interviewing
  As every hiring manager knows, the interview is the tipping point in the hiring process. Even when working with an experienced staffing partner, it is important for hiring managers to maintain an active role in the hiring process — specifically the candidate interview. Your staffing partner can work with you during this process to make the hiring/interviewing processes both an effective and efficient use of your time. More...
  
  
• 6 Steps to Writing Effective Job Descriptions
  Identifying the most qualified candidate pool for your open positions hinges on well-written job descriptions that accurately depict all aspects of the job. More...
  
  
• 6 Ways to Optimize Contract Employee Performance
  According to the American Staffing Association, 90% of companies use contract staffing services. The ability to effectively manage employee resources is a constant challenge for any manager — one that becomes even more complex with the addition of contract employees into the workforce mix. More...