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The U.S. economy continues to add jobs, albeit at a slower rate in the past few months. Simply put, conditions have tightened as more people have found work and there are fewer openings in many employment sectors. | Continue reading
In the business world, where innovation is desired, “assumptions can be very dangerous. People don’t know what we don’t know,” said Ann Herrmann-Nehdi, chief executive officer of Herrmann International. | Continue reading
So you’ve read all the business books and articles, and you believe you know the best way to deliver bad news to employees: Be objective and factual, stay positive, and bring solutions to the table. But this is "terrible advice." | Continue reading
Anti-harassment policies that are too extensive will likely generate employee complaints about minor issues, and they pose the risk that enforcement will be inconsistent. | Continue reading
The TN visa category is a useful tool for recruiting skilled professionals—especially when the H-1B option dries up—provided they are citizens of Canada or Mexico. | Continue reading
LinkedIn’s newly enhanced sourcing tool and advanced search engine is mostly a hit with recruiters, while others continue to have reservations over its cost and necessity. | Continue reading
As big-name companies reconsider the traditional employee evaluation, at least two Wall Street investment giants are scrapping numeric rankings in favor of adjectives. | Continue reading
HR practitioners new to immigration matters must first understand the two main types of visas—employment and business-based—and the processes involved in securing both. | Continue reading
It's a challenge for HR pros to teach managers how to document performance problems in an appropriate manner. | Continue reading
An infographic detailing the six steps to successfully begin a career in Human Resources. | Continue reading
A civility coach offers real-life examples of how U.S. companies handled persistent workplace bullies. | Continue reading
The Treasury Department has proposed new rules on deferred compensation that unexpectedly provide (or preserve) some flexibility for tax-exempt and government employers. | Continue reading
Employers across the globe plan to increase hiring over the next three months overall, though at a slightly slower pace than in recent quarters, according to the latest Manpower Employment Outlook Survey. | Continue reading
Employers’ E-Verify accounts will be closed if they are not accessed after nine months, beginning Aug. 1, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced. | Continue reading
Answering some key questions can help to determine if a variable pay plan is right for your organization. If so, clearly communicate with workers about the intended goals of the plan, the size of potential bonus and what they must achieve to earn it. | Continue reading
Employers that outsource jobs to a third party that relies on foreign workers must make sure the contractor is not engaging in citizenship discrimination, a federal official said. | Continue reading
The business adage “the soft stuff is the hard stuff” rings true for HR professionals trying to initiate culture change in their organizations. | Continue reading
The U.S. Supreme Court’s 4-4 decision in a case challenging President Barack Obama’s proposed immigration programs effectively blocks nearly 5 million undocumented immigrants residing in the United States from being granted work authorization. | Continue reading
As more organizations abandon annual scale-based employee ratings, new research suggests how ratingless reviews can put the focus on performance and consequences, which is a more effective way to evaluate, and reward, employees. | Continue reading
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has issued a proposed rule to help clear up confusion over using financial incentives in worksite wellness programs. | Continue reading
Tech companies are employing unconventional interviewing methods to find the strongest candidates, such as using bar raisers, hiring committees and pair programming tests. | Continue reading
Trying to use data to improve your hiring processes? Look beyond the traditional “big three” metrics—time-to-fill, cost-per-hire and quality of hire. | Continue reading
Will Microsoft’s blockbuster announcement that it is purchasing LinkedIn lead to enhanced recruiting opportunities for talent professionals, or dampen innovation at one of the world’s most popular talent solutions providers? | Continue reading
The Society for Human Resource Management will hold a one-day event in Seattle designed for recruitment and talent management professionals and presented in partnership with the Puget Sound SHRM Chapters. | Continue reading
Executives often have fears about allowing people to work offsite, and part of HR’s role is to help management get over that apprehension, agreed all members of a panel at a recent conference on workplace flexibility. | Continue reading
President Barack Obama delivered a scathing review of American workplace policies—depicting them as insulting and discriminatory toward women and in need of a major overhaul. | Continue reading
Recruiters should take advantage of the flexible work opportunities at their organizations and use them as part of their recruitment strategy, urged experts at a recent flexible work conference. | Continue reading
There is a divide in corporate boardrooms between CEOs and directors on how to measure executive performance, even as directors give CEOs considerable credit for corporate outcomes. | Continue reading
Sourcers and recruiters can net the most meaningful candidate search results across the Internet, and even within their own applicant tracking systems, by learning to write basic Boolean search strings. | Continue reading
While many technology giants have “leaned in” with diversity initiatives in the past few years, tech executives say there is still much work to do when it comes to bringing women and minorities on board. | Continue reading
Employee rewards are shifting from collective and consistent to increasingly individualized and differentiated, with organizations continually optimizing the cost/value relationship with talent. And HR is tasked with navigating this new landscape. | Continue reading
Tech recruiters need to keep an eye out now for trends that will be hot in the 2020s, thought leaders said at the 2016 Talent42 Tech Recruiting Conference. | Continue reading
No more annual pay raises? It’s a move that companies increasingly are considering, most recently General Electric (GE). | Continue reading
The overtime regulations overhaul will not only alter pay structures but will push some organizations to make benefit cuts. Employers should revisit their total rewards mix and prepare to deal with pay compression issues. | Continue reading
Challenges include whether to use bonuses to push employees over the exempt threshold, whether to make workers salaried but nonexempt, how to confront pay compression, and how to deal with strained compensation budgets. | Continue reading
Employers are obligated to complete and maintain I-9 employment eligibility verification forms for every worker, even if the organization is using E-Verify to validate work authorization. | Continue reading
This infographic reveals how stress in the workplace is reshaping America. | Continue reading
Learn how to identify and possibly prevent job burnout. | Continue reading
Layoffs across the United States fell by half in May from the previous month, indicating the pace of job cutting may be slowing down, according to the latest report from global outplacement consultancy Challenger, Gray & Christmas. | Continue reading
Dane Hurtubise, vice president of new initiatives at Greenhouse, compares onboarding to “unboxing,” a YouTube phenomenon where enthusiasts unwrap products and examine their packaging in obsessive detail. | Continue reading
U.S. employers added just 38,000 jobs in May 2016, a total far less than economists had expected and the lowest monthly jobs total since September 2010, when the economy was still hemorrhaging jobs. | Continue reading
The majority of recent heat-related deaths investigated by federal authorities involved workers who’d been on the job for three days or less. | Continue reading
Working remotely requires different skills than working from company headquarters, and finding workers with these skills requires different techniques than when hiring traditional onsite employees. | Continue reading
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is more than doubling the monetary fines for employers that fail to properly post federal laws that protect workers from discrimination. | Continue reading