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Shelley Safian is vice president of marketing for Optimum Supply Chain Recruiters, a recruiting organization that specializes in the placement of management personnel in the logistics field on a nationwide basis. You can reach her by calling Optimum SCR at (800) 300-7609 or by visiting the firm's Web site, www.OptimumSCR.com.
That same effortless access to the digital world can lead to abuse of office e-mail systems and Internet connections, causing a raft of problems for the company.
You're determined to hire the best and you know it's going to cost you there will be advertising expenses, wages and benefits, travel and relocation costs, and maybe even executive recruiters' fees. And that's not the half of it.
The workforce is changing, and the techniques that have worked in the past with older workers hold little sway with the generations that follow them: the Gen Xers and Gen Nexters.
These days, managers at all levels find themselves bumping up against a language barrier as they try to communicate with workers born in places like Kazakhstan, Cambodia or Yemen.
Many times, workers find it difficult to disengage from their daily tasks and visualize what could be. It's up to you to share your vision of where their careers could take them and how it could be accomplished.