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Recruiting Trends and Challenges: 2008 vs. 2018
/ RecruitmentSince the beginning of 2008, the employment market has seen drastic shifts in the amount of talent, the number of jobs available, and the speed of the hiring process. In the ten years since, the talent available has fluctuated, and the way that hiring teams find that talent has been molded by the increase in […]
Project Management for HR Projects
/ HR StrategyBy John Throckmorton, MS, SPHR Many HR professionals have experienced working on a project and struggling to finish the job. This could have been the result of resources that were only available part time, scope that changed after the job was started, or a timeline that was way too ambitious. As HR professionals, we are […]
Pay Gap: Understanding Equal Pay & the Impact You Can Have
/ Benefits & CompensationBy Robin Throckmorton, MA, SPHR, SHRM-SCP Are you able to ask candidates for their salary history in your state or city? If so, it may not be for long. If you are hiring employees in California, Connecticut (effective Jan 1, 2019), Delaware, Hawaii (effective Jan 1, 2019), Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, and Vermont, […]
Investigations with Intent
/ Legal ComplianceIn June 2018, the EEOC’s Select Task Force on Study of Harassment in the Workplace reconvened after two years of work on the topic. According to Victoria A. Lipnic, Acting Chair for the Task Force, the number of charges of harassment have not significantly increased, which at first glance appeared surprising as we are well […]
Skipping Manager Training Is Too Big a Risk for What’s at Stake
/ Training & DevelopmentBy Cathleen Snyder, SPHR, SHRM-SCP One of the most frequent complaints that we hear about mid-level managers is, “They don’t manage their people.” A team isn’t meeting productivity goals, has high turnover, and/or low engagement. Add to that, that most companies evaluate their managers on productivity goals, but overlook how they achieve those goals. Are […]
Candidate Experience: How Small Tweaks Can Make a Huge Impact
/ Communications, RecordKeepingby Melinda Canino, MS, CIR with strategic HR inc. If you work in human resources, you’ve surely heard people talking about the importance of the “candidate experience.” But what does that really mean, why is it important, and how can you address it? These are critical questions to answer if you want to position your […]
Recruiting and Retaining Millennials
/ RecruitmentBy Robin Throckmorton, MA, SPHR, SCP The Millennial generation now dominates our workforce as they have successfully surpassed the Baby Boomer generation. And guess what, multiple studies show we can expect the Millennials to be 50% of the workforce by 2020 and 75% of the global workplace by 2030. With Baby Boomers retiring and labor […]