Category: Recruiting

Recruiters are tasked with finding the best candidates and top talent for a position. Reading a resume is the first foray into the candidate’s ability to succeed in the company. A cover letter unearths more clues, especially about whatever the candidate deems most important to highlight. Finally, the interview is a chance to confirm the […]

In today’s recruiting landscape, most candidates find their way to a position through a multitude of sources, directly and indirectly. The recruiting process snakes back to student job fairs and brand marketing, leading to talent pools and finally hires. Gone are the days of knowing exactly where a company makes first contact with a candidate, […]

With so many regulations affecting Form I-9 compliance, it’s extremely important to have strategies in place for handling them, from before a candidate is hired to the occasional audit, to after an employee leaves. Handling these forms requires knowledge of the law, careful consideration of what level of involvement you’ll have, and a solid plan […]

Many employers are concerned about how their employees behave at work. And they should be! How an employee behaves toward customers can have a major impact on whether or not those customers ever come back; how an employee behaves toward other employees could result in lawsuits, and how an employee behaves with suppliers could result […]

Depending on whom you ask, many people seem to think that the field of human resources doesn’t change very much. Personally, I don’t believe that to be true. I think human resources is changing rapidly. Sometimes HR departments can become so singularly focused on putting out the current fires that they don’t take the time […]

More and more companies today are employing people from different countries, opening branches all over the world, and working together in a market that is more global than ever before. Technology has made it possible for employees to communicate with one another and with HQ from anywhere in the world. The global economy means there’s […]

Today’s workforce is very diverse – employees vary widely in their beliefs, their cultural heritage, and their age. Given the economic downturn of recent years, more and more people have had to delay retirement, making this one of the oldest workforces in more than half a century. In the U.S., almost 1 in 5 people […]

The workplace landscape has changed dramatically over the last few decades. Fifty years ago, only 38 percent of adult women were in the labor force, while today that number is closer to 60 percent. Yet even though more than half of all women work today, they make up only 4.6 percent of Fortune 500 company […]

Any company that has face-to-face contact with customers or clients knows the importance of hiring the right person as a receptionist. The receptionist is the first person clients see when they visit your offices. Most clients will have interacted little or not at all with your company ahead of time. That means that this one […]

Big data and predictive analytics have been around in numerous industries for some years, yet they’ve only recently been applied to HR functions like talent management. The availability of data and the means to harness it can be a game-changer for talent acquisition and retention, but the only way it can work is if the […]

Everything is going mobile these days, not least of all the world of HR and recruiting. With everyone on the go all of the time, if you hope to catch someone’s attention – whether for sharing information and training materials or recruiting that perfect candidate – mobile is the way to go. Through cloud computing […]

Most of us have spent time at a company that ran relatively lean, from the number of employees they had to the departmental budgets. For those of us who dream big, it can be frustrating to have to cut back when we know that something will be a worthwhile investment. Even so, just about everyone […]