Whether you’re an HR team of one or ten or more, it’s important to have external resources at your fingertips to help you solve those HR puzzles and employment mysteries. Or to help you deal with employee performance problems, set the right salary ranges for your industry, and polish your recruiting techniques.

Companies tend to keep up on their Glassdoor reviews and reviews from employees, but it’s also beneficial to pay attention to reviews from past and present job candidates. Why? How you made them feel during the hiring process ultimately determines their opinion of your company. And we’re pretty sure you want it to be positive. (Right?)

If you’re not conducting exit interviews with your employees before they say “bye” and “see ya later,” you’re missing out. In many ways, an employee’s exit interview is better than their first one. Why? They get to be a part of your company’s future.

As all the radio waves have been attesting since BEFORE Thanksgiving, “It’s the most wonderful time of the year!” December is a wonderful month filled with family time, religious (or non-religious) observances and celebrations, cool weather creeping into the air, and feelings of nostalgia warming our hearts.

It’s a scary time of year! Ghosts, goblins and jack-o’-lanterns adorn nearly every doorstep and haunted houses and spooky corn mazes are the main fall weekend attraction. But HR managers have something more frightful lurking about: new employee candidates!