From Target to Walmart What Retailer Has the Best Leaders

From Target to Walmart What Retailer Has the Best Leaders The retail world is so heavily reliant on the trends and tastes of its consumers. And this constant need to adapt to the times provides implications for many important business factors, especially their employer brand. This is because as demand grows for their products, so does the need to hire the best talent in the market. And when youre talking about the top 10 US retail companies, from the likes of Target all the way to Walmart, more often than not, there are more jobs available than candidates! So retail companies have to be shrewd in their approach and find ways to differentiate themselves from competitors. One key aspect of this is through their Management Organization. The employee culture and overall employer brand within any retail store lives and dies by their managers. It is the Management Organization that set the standards. A good retail manager wears many hats and has to be able to not only run the store efficiently but also to keep staff motivated, maintain employee schedules, enforce company policies and much, much more. So, using our proprietary methodology, the Employer Brand Index, we wanted to generate our own understanding of the impact of Management Organization, one of our 16 employer brand attributes, within the US retail industry. Click here for full report with company breakdowns, thematic analysis and more. How do people generally really feel about their managers? A large portion of the data (20%) tended to be very general, with comments such as ‘bad management’ or ‘good management’ coming up quite often. And extracting meaning out of these generalities can be difficult because the word good or bad can constitute so many different things. Yet, in the case of this research, it actually helped paint a picture as to how competent people feel their managers and leaders are at the company. Below are the most common descriptors: As visualized above, the word ‘poor’ was the most commonly used description, and if you were to analyze the ratio of sentiment for this topic as a whole, it would be 66% negative and 34% positive. And as the report shows, from the fifth-placed Home Depot to the tenth-placed Walmart, negative commentary surrounding the theme Ability, Knowledge Competency had the highest or one of the highest shares of voice within their respective data sets. This not only emphasizes the impact of poor management or inadequate leadership on their poor scoring within this research but their overall employer brand and talent retention! Manager’s dont care about employees This is a pretty strong statement, but our research methodology is driven by what people say and we convey what they say as bluntly as possible. And the theme Treatment, Behavior Appreciation as a whole had a very strong negative impact on the scores for Walmart, Target, Dollar General and more. A major part of this was the lack of care and appreciation employees felt they received from managers. Kate Pritchard, Head of Insights at Link Humans, had some very interesting thoughts about this issue: “Managers in the retail industry have a difficult job, working in highly operational roles, often with a flexible workforce who could be working different shift patterns to them. This makes it even more important to get the fundamentals of management right: treating employees fairly and with respect, being available to offer support and recognize great work. Small changes in the way managers interact with employees can have a large impact on their experience at work. On the whole, this theme made up almost 20% of the entire data pool for this research, which shows how important it is for people to be recognized, appreciated and cared about by their managers. Favoritism is a norm Examining the data we did notice the importance of friendship and team culture for each of these retail organizations, but it seems as though, more often than not, these friendships have boiled into favoritism. The research shows that 8 out of the 10 companies had significant issues with the theme Favoritism, Fairness Politics. The words ‘favoritism’ or ‘favorites’ came up often and some of the issues pertinent to this were: Better schedules are given to friends family Promotions are given to friends family Management boys clubs in the workplace Managers driving their own personal agendas This type of inequality can be hard to control for retail organizations the size of Walmart and Target, who put their trust into thousands of managers and supervisors across the country. Yet it is an issue that needs to be focused on, because allowing this type of behavior will have serious implications on any organizations employer brand, especially in regards to talent retention because the best people will not be fairly selected for the role and those that see this happen will ultimately lose trust in the organization. As the common saying goes ‘People Leave Managers, Not Companies’. And while this blanket statement isnt always true, it feels extremely fitting for the retail industry. The graphic below is a summary of how each scored on our 1 to 10 scale. Remember: 1 is a perfect score and 10 is the worst possible score. The commentary you will find on the right-hand side of the graphic are examples of the most common themes and subjects.

Resume Writing Service Pricing - How To Spot A Legitimate Online Resume Writing Service

Resume Writing Service Pricing - How To Spot A Legitimate Online Resume Writing ServiceResume writing service is a form of service, which makes use of resume template and terminologies to place a professional cover letter for the applicant to use. Once this procedure is complete, a person can use this resume to come up with their own job application and then proceed to the next stage of the interview process.However, having a company such as a resume writing service, should not be the only means of getting quality personnel for a job application. Since a lot of candidates have enrolled in these services, a lot of scam companies have cropped up to prey on the prospects. It is therefore important that candidates check out companies offering services such as this before accepting their services.Once a candidate has made the decision to get in touch with a company that offers services such as this, it is important that they get into the habit of going through various aspects of the compa ny before signing up for one. The main reason behind the need for a prospective candidate to do this is that scam companies offer false promises to lure them into signing up with them. However, there are ways through which a candidate can tell if a company is legit or not.One thing that one needs to be careful about is the fact that a resume service pricing is mostly dependent on the type of services that a company offers. Hence, if the resume writing service charges exorbitant fees, it is best to look elsewhere. It is not that such companies cannot provide good service, but it is often the case that the kind of service that they offer is just a variation of the resume writing service.Other than the price, it is also important that a candidate is sure that the company he/she is opting for is legitimate. In order to weed out the scammers, one has to be very clear on the process through which the resume writing service will submit the resume. Moreover, one has to consider the manner i n which the company deals with the resume before agreeing to its use.When a candidate finds a genuine company that offers a good price and offers quality service, it is essential that he/she completes all the requirements, outlined by the company. In other words, a candidate has to do a lot of research to ensure that the company does not demand him to sign a bunch of forms. On the other hand, a legitimate resume writing service pricing needs no such documentation.A lot of online services offer good services at cheap prices. Hence, the resume writing service is very easy to access and a candidate needs to go through the web to find it. It is important that the resume writer that a candidate decides to use should be well-known and recognized.This way, a candidate can be sure that the resume writing service is legitimate and thus avoid scams. This then leads to the conclusion that although a genuine service may cost a bit more, it is best to avail the services of a reputed and reputabl e resume writing service, instead of a newbie resume writing service, which will not help the candidate get the right job.

Act the part - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career

Act the part - Personal Branding Blog - Stand Out In Your Career Ever wonder which employees get promoted to management and which stay stationary at their current positions? This question has posed a lengthy debate for a long time for me. I used to think that working hard, accomplishing your organizational goals and establishing relationships was the path towards escalation up the corporate hierarchy. My new thoughts are that if you act the part, then your one step closer to being the part. By this I mean that if you start acting like a manager by facilitating communication across corporate lines, managing work flow processes and creating a work environment where others depend on your work to get their own jobs accomplished. Acting the part, will not only display your ability to handle management, but also almost force your manager or director to enlist you in the position. This is obviously not an easy task to do and it requires a lot of determination, tactical planning and opportunity. You must be given the opportunity to carry on a wider variety of work and the ability to cover more portions of the business, in order to move up the ladder. Other factors that play a role in this are age, years of service at the company, manager’s perspective over your capabilities and positioning within your department. Be aware that others will be competing for management positions as well, so always display that you are more suitable for the job. Strategy: Validate with your manager that you are able to handle a wide variety of work, outside of your realm of day-to-day operations.