September 2007 - Workforce                          Development Month

In September, we celebrate Labor Day, a day set aside to pay tribute to working men and women who added materially to the highest standard of living and the greatest production the world has ever known. As a small (or large) business owner, you've invested in human capital - your employees - and you recognize the importance and monetary worth of their skills and experience. This month's newsletter focuses on hiring and retaining talented employees.

Build Your Workforce

SCORE offers great tips on creatively building a workforce to help grow your small (or large) business. learn more...

Get More Results

Barbara Brannen, owner of LetsPlayMore, says, "Management is a privilege and those who are the most successful at it find themselves enjoying their work beyond measure and promoted often." She says you can master these five secrets with some dedication to simple things that take a minimum of time and produce an incredible result. learn more...

Interviewing More Effectively

Behavioral interviewing, actively promoted in management and human resources literature in recent years, is sometimes described as a "new style of interviewing" developed by industrial and organizational psychologists during the 1970s. The concept is growing in popularity and is seen in many quarters as generating a greater degree of reliability than so-called "ordinary" interviewing. learn more...

Ask the Expert

I'm a small business owner and am in the process of hiring my first employee. Do you have some behavioral interview questions that would help me through the interview? learn more...

Do you have a question for the expert?

Jefferson County Workforce Center would like to answer your questions about workforce development and how to grown your own workforce. Click here to send your question to us!