After a job interview, do you know what happens in the office of the recruiter, personnel manager or boss you just visited? They close the door and take out an evaluation form or a recording device and pass judgment on your future. In other words, they do their homework.

I'm astonished at how few job candidates take their own futures seriously enough to record or organize their notes on interviews that potentially have such an impact on their lives.

If you're going to put your future and your fate in anyone's hands, it should be your own. You have your own evaluation to make, impressions about your performance and about the company.

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Working with a quality, well-marketed, niche job board to perform a micro-focused career search for your next new hire is "the new essential strategy" of savvy hiring managers and HR departments. These specialized sites can focus on a particular industry, a segment of a certain field, or even hiring for a specific position.

Niche job sites that continuously reach out to the targeted professionals to direct them to their job site, through creative techniques often forgotten by the general employment boards, greatly benefit both employers and prospective hires.

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Our Salary Survey is based on the most up-to-date information provided by the Minnesota Department of Economic Security. Periodically, the MN DEED surveys employers throughout the state on their employee salaries.

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Here's our list of job categories:
Accounting / Auditing Jobs
Administrative / Support Services Jobs
Advertising / Marketing / PR Jobs
Agriculture / Food Production Jobs
Architecture / Building Trades / Construction Jobs
Automotive Jobs
Biotech / R and D / Science Jobs
Business Management Jobs
Creative / Design Services Jobs
Customer Service Jobs
Drafting / CAD Jobs
Education/Training Jobs
Engineering Jobs
Entrepreneur Jobs
Environment Jobs
Government / Policy Jobs
Health Care / Medical Jobs
Hospitality / Food Services / Restaurant Jobs
Human Resources / Recruiting Jobs
Insurance Jobs
IT / Software Development Jobs
Law Enforcement Jobs
Legal / Legal Services Jobs
Life Style Jobs
Manufacturing / Production Jobs
Media / Broadcast / Publication Jobs
Non-Profit Jobs
Other / Miscellaneous Jobs
Printing / Publishing Jobs
Quality Assurance / Safety Jobs
Real Estate Jobs
Retail / Wholesale Jobs
Sales / Business Development Jobs
Social Services Jobs
Sports / Recreation Jobs
Transportation / Logistics Jobs
Travel / Tourism Jobs

Unemployment figures are at an all time high and companies continue on the course of downsizing. So should your company actual be hiring when most organizations are scaling back? If your organization wants to be one of the key players when the economy turns around, then the time to prepare for the turnaround is right now. Three important things to consider are:

* Do you have employees that are not meeting performance expectations?
* Can you capitalize on the abundance of top performers that are currently available?
* Have you considered utilizing interim hires?


Take a good look at the performance of your existing employees? During good times if an employee is not meeting expectations, there's a tendency to look the other way. Can you afford to carry weak employees? It's critical to take a hard look to see if you have under-performers in your organization. If you have employees that are not meeting performance expectations you must take action. Replace weak performers with people that will do what the job calls for.

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