Human Resources & Management

More than 80 percent of Midwest employers planned to give raises from July 1 to June 30 of 2015, according to a recent survey by Waukesha-based MRA-The Management Association.

Recently, a candidate I had recruited gave notice to his current employer to take a position with one of my clients. Like most candidates, he was nervous about giving notice.

Milwaukee-based ManpowerGroup today reported third quarter net earnings of $130.5 million, or $1.61 per share, up from $94.7 million, or $1.18 per share, in the same period a year ago.

Imagine you own or manage 10 Jimmy John's restaurants. A handful of your employees place posters in your restaurants depicting identical sandwiches, where one sandwich is described as made by a healthy worker and the other as made by a sick worker.

Milwaukee Area Technical College will get $2.6 million in Wisconsin Fast Forward grant funds from the state to train up to 546 workers for in-demand fields, Gov. Scott Walker announced.

The waiter at San Antonio's Beat Street Coffee Co. Bistro held the large vintage door for a long time while my mother entered with her walker. The restaurant's hipster ambiance was just what she needed as a meal break from living with 24 other people aged 80-103 at Chandler Estate Assisted Living. Needless to say, neither Mom nor I looked like the other diners. But this waiter treated us throughout the evening as if we were his target market.

Chad Albrecht, president of Centare, drew some rather inquisitive looks when he told the audience at a recent business luncheon that the most important strategy driving growth at his Brookfield-based software development company is not “putting the customer first,” but instead is “putting employees first.”

The U.S. economy created 217,000 nonfarm jobs in April, according to the latest report by the U.S. Department of Labor.

To many of my colleagues in the baby boomer generation, the rising generation of millennials is a mystery.