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From the Other Side of the Fence: The Impact of the OFCCP Internet Applicant Regs on Job Hunting

Have you thought about how the new OFCCP regs on internet applicants will affect job hunters? This article has a number of hints for job hunters!

Forced to Hire Someone For Reasons Other Than Job Qualifications: Recent Poll Indicates This Is A Common Issue

Recently surveyed HR managers indicated that they are frequently required to hire someone for reasons other than job qualifications. In this posting, I discuss what those factors are.

Latest Discrimination Class Action Target: Best Buy (will Target be next target?)

Best Buy has become the latest “big box” retailer to fall victim to the race discrimination and sex discrimination class action craze, joining the likes of Wal-Mart and Walgreens.
Six former and current employees sued Best Buy Thursday, “alleging the company has purposefully excluded women and minorities from top-paying jobs as part of a sales culture [...]

Read All About It: New Internet Applicant Definition Causing Corporate Uproar

Still hot off the presses, this posting describes some of the commotion created by the new OFCCP definition of internet applicant. We won’t really know the full impact for a while, after OFCCP starts reviewing companies with this definition in mind.

Where Do College Educated, Ethnically Diverse Job Seekers Look for Jobs?

Report of recruitment sources heavily used and not so heavily used by college educated, ethnically diverse job seekers.

HR/Employment Blogosphere Update for October 1-26, 2005

I’ve been so busy switching to the new format and keeping up with the “Our Recent Reading” page that I’ve neglected to do this update for over a month. (New readers: I had been doing it weekly, publishing on Monday, and it was a popular feature of this Blawg.)
So here comes a [...]