** This site is best viewed using Internet Explorer 7.0+ or Firefox 3.0+ Download Firefox for FREE **
Subscribe by RSSSubscribe by RSS Subscribe by EmailSubscribe by Email

Archive for March, 2005

More on functional capacity and similar testing

I’ve noticed quite a number of continuing hits on this post from the end of February: “EEOC prevails in disparate impact gender case involving physical strength test”
I’m not sure where they’re all coming from; perhaps just Google searches about that case. In any event, I thought I’d do a little Internet research to see what [...]


My latest Hiring Center column is up

I’m doing a monthly column for the Monster Hiring Center. The latest one (Part II on reference checking) is up now.
What started as a single column on reference checking first morphed into a two-part series, and then ballooned into three parts, as I again vastly overran my word limit.
Here’s part I.
What the editor chopped [...]


A few quick links on the state of the US labor market(s)

I’m a bit hurried today. Lots of people seemed quite happy to just click through the weekend’s bare-naked links, without my spending lots of time adding my comments, so this will be pretty sparse as well.
(Not to say I intend a permanent conversion to a pure links-blog.)
Here are some recent media articles on where [...]


HR/Employment Blogosphere update for March 21, 2005

Soon I hope to try a bold new experiment with this feature.
In preparing this update each weekend for Monday morning publication, I’ve been torn between the wish to make it a pretty short and simple list of links with minimal commentary, and the irresistable urge to comment.
Giving in to the latter urge makes the project [...]


Developing corporate blogging policy; lawyers and publishers take on the challenge

There is an urgent need for employers and their blogger-employees to reach an accommodation and understanding as to what blog content is acceptable and what is unacceptable.
I have touched on this throughout my “Firing Bloggers” series [scroll to bottom of linked page for links to the series].
Now I am excited to read that a self-appointed [...]