ZERORISK HR is proud to work with Home State Bank, an award-winning bank located in Iowa. Read this compelling story of how the company leaders initiated a culture shift that energized the bank, leading to year-over-year growth in key metrics. Now, they have been recognized as a Hall of Fame bank for their commitment to culture, service, and sales.

Business owners and managers often need to make a quick hiring decision to fill an important role. There is considerable risk, though, if you abandon your principles or depend on an unscientific interview process. Read why a behavioral interview based on the science of axiology should be part of your hiring process and how to reduce the risk of unwanted turnover.

Many companies rely on a personality test to separate candidates when making a hiring decision. However, personality tests are easy to manipulate. Read why you need to use an assessment based on the science of axiology to provide the most reliable results by measuring a candidate’s thinking patterns.

As you wrap up 2017, you are probably looking at key metrics thinking about how to grow your business next year. Here is the key to growing your business in 2018: shift your mindset to improve employee retention. How do you accomplish this? In this article, we offer five important tips to help you develop a culture that focuses on developing employees to generate ROI from your human capital.

As technology becomes more sophisticated and as we become more connected through the Internet of things (IOT), there are more security risks for HR departments. Read what you should be aware of to protect employee and candidate data and what policies your company needs to adopt to ensure records are secure.

Companies that rely on traditional hiring methods or a traditional way of thinking about job candidates will be left behind in the marketplace. Your company needs to shift to improving the hiring process by serving candidates, creating more opportunities to attract top candidates, become an employer of choice, and gain market share over competitors. Also, read these statistics about today’s candidates and learn about future technology that will impact your hiring.

Some job boards are limited in their ability to provide information that your company needs to make reliable, accurate hiring decisions. Instead, consider the importance of recruitment analytics in the hiring process to ensure you find the best fit for your opening to reduce hiring costs and increase your profitability.

Small business owners know the importance of retaining market share and remaining profitable. Instead of trying to find the next investment in technology or software that will generate positive ROI, look at your managers. Do they need training to drive more business for your company? Consider why your next investment should be management training to continue growing the capabilities of your company.

As part of your regular work responsibilities, HR managers should evaluate individual contributors to determine which employees have managerial potential. Read this article on how to evaluate the core competencies of individual contributors to decide which employees should be groomed for managerial positions and how to avoid making a huge mistake during this process.

There are three important scenarios that dictate personnel action related to managers: retain and train, retain and reassign, or release to the market. This article details the role of emotional intelligence helping your company decide what action to take with managers, the success of a company that followed this process, and how your company can grow through implementing a plan for addressing blind spots with managers.