Employee Retention Starts with Your Hiring Practices
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Inc.com has a timely story on hiring practices at the moment. The story is timely because hiring is slowing happening again in the aftermath of the Recession.

Hiring is perhaps the most important step in determining the future of your company. You should think of hiring as something that starts when you decide you need more people and ends only after new employees have been absorbs and acclimated into your organization.

The Inc piece is actually a preview of ten previous Inc articles on hiring. A major topic touched on by a couple of the articles is how to think about your applicants' resumes. One executive described resumes as "full of exaggerations, half-truths, embellishments – and even outright lies." Another talks about a common hiring trap: hiring someone because their resume is so impressive – even though you don't really need them.

The piece looks at a variety of other topics – like when to begin hiring and ways that you can help new employees bond into your company. It's worth reading.