The Hire Authority
On a monthly basis, Elaine Varelas of Keystone Partners, parent company to Keystone Associates, writes a column The Hire Authority, which is featured in  the Hiring Hub, the Human Resources section of Boston.com/Monster.  Her articles discuss issues affecting today's Human Resources professionals and hiring agents – from maximizing human capital to optimizing workforces.

 Walk this way: Think like a consultant to excel at your HR job 

 Let the students teach — A new approach to the mentor relationship

 Workin' around the clock: Managing the 24-hour employee

 Communication 101: Reviewing the golden rules of HR communication

 The many faces of HR: Managing expectations and producing results

 Turn-around time

 Say What?! 

 Defusing disasters 

 Naughty or nice? 

 Dealing with difficult co-workers 

 Who's your caddy? Leveraging HR's strategic partnerships 

 Are you happy in your job?

 Overcoming career derailers

 Why can't we all just get along? 

 Think you can't offer cutting edge benefits? Think again. 

 Heard it through the grapevine 

 The looming labor shortage: why aren't you worried? 

 We are family: corporate relationships and the roles people play 

 Think like a quarterback to hone your HR skills

 Top ten reasons CEO Scrooge is gone

 The use and misuse of 360-degree assessments

 From whiners to winners: channeling employee complaints

 HR's responsibility as employees age

 Talking to the top: feedback strategies for CEOs 

 Finding fresh talent in a tight market

 How to deal with a bad boss

 Secrets of the best companies to work for

 And the winner is...

 Law & order: strict policies may be bad business

 How low can you go? Becoming a flexible employer

 Ringing in the New Year with executive presence

 Avoiding holiday taboos

 Driving organizational change 

 Communicating in your culture: what are you really saying to employees? 

 Making new hires stick: engagement is the key

 Extreme HR: pushing the limits of risk

 Whose side are you on

 The usual suspects 

 Big Brother is you, watching

 Pleasing employee palates: a la carte benefits 

 Happy workers: achievable goal or oxymoron?

 The curse of HR myopia

 "You're (not) hired!"

Copyright (c) 2005-2007 Boston.com/Monster and the Boston Globe.  These pieces originally appeared on the Hiring Hub on Boston.com and have been reprinted here with the permission of the publisher.

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