The survey was conducted from February 10 to March 2, 2010, among 2, 778 hiring managers and human resource professionals.

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Half the employers in a 2011 survey by the management association reported incidents of bullying in their workplace, and about a fourth of human resource professionals themselves said they had been bullied.

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The nationwide survey, which was conducted by Harris Interactive on behalf of jobs site CareerBuilder.com from February 9 to March 2, 20l2, included more than 2, 000 hiring managers and human resource professionals.

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CareerBuilder conducted a survey among 2, 611 hiring managers and human resource professionals and 3, 991 workers nationwide to find what employees value in the workplace, and what ultimately entices them to stay with their employers.

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In all the chatter among human resource professionals and VCs about how to find and hire the best talent, Tjan says there is too much emphasis on asking whether candidates are qualified to do the job.

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While it's ultimately up to each organization's culture to deem what is fit, human resource professionals, like Sheridan and Kurtz, say general dress guidelines are useful as they create some parameters and expectations around what is considered appropriate.

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We recently talked with authors Alan Spector and Keith Lawrence, retired Quality Assurance and Human Resource professionals, respectively, with Procter and Gamble who interviewed hundreds of retirees and built on their own experience to learn about creating a fulfilling retirement.

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Harris Interactive conducted a survey on behalf of the jobs website CareerBuilder.com, in which they canvassed more than 2, 600 hiring managers and human resource professionals between Nov. 1 and Nov. 30, 2012, to unearth the most shocking mistakes they had seen candidates make during interviews.

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After mass layoff announcements this fall, Society for Human Resource Management found that 23% of human-resource professionals surveyed have encountered significantly more cases of eavesdropping in the workplace over the past 12 months.

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