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Poker, Anyone? Cultural Fit and The Hiring Process
This post about hiring employees, courtesy of Recruiting Blogswap, is written by Scott Beardsley, co-founder and Vice President of Recruitment Services. Beardsley also writes for the Recruitment Redefined blog.
As a Hiring Manager, don’t be labeled a “gambler” when it comes to hiring employees for your group.
THE FRIENDLY CARD GAME
Imagine that you and a [...]
Are Generation Y’s Parents Too Involved?
As Generation Y heads into the workforce, they’re bringing new employment issues with them. The kids who grew up being told how special they were are entering a low-unemployment job market, allowing them to be picky about choosing an employer. George talked this through in his post What Millenials Want Out of [...]
What Millennials (Generation Y) Want Out of Work
What’s happening with employment opportunities for the “older worker”?
The subject of this post was suggested by Granite Solutions Groupe, a recruiting firm specializing in senior-level managers, analysts, and IT contractors in the financial services and high-tech industries.
As demand for highly qualified financial services and IT workers continues to strain the labor market, more attention is being put on hiring from alternative candidate [...]
George’s 15 minutes of fame — quoted in TIME Magazine on video resumes — with Friday video humor thrown in for good meaure
A few weeks ago, when I was in New York, I stayed at the Hudson Hotel, a cool place near the Time-Warner Building pictured at left (my photo). So did several other scintillating bloggers-blawgers.
Shortly after my return, I got an e-mail from a Time Magazine writer working in that very building, Lisa Takeuchi Cullen. [...]
Three reference sites — for general HR, overtime rules, and technology policies
The only common thread here is that these are three sites you may want to explore and bookmark, as they look to be full of helpful content.
I’ve added them to my custom search engine.
(1) AllBusiness bills itself as “the one-stop resource for growing businesses.”
Its site includes a Human Resources page, with links to [...]
Excellent Hiring Tips About Key Personal Qualities
This is a link-and run post because the article I refer to is so excellent and pithy it could not be summarized without losing something in the translation.
BLR Founder and Publisher Bob Brady writes:Hire in Haste, Regret at Leisure
After a good anecdote, Bob sets the tone with:
There is an old saying that “you hire people [...]
Employers Using Facebook for Background Checking, Part III
Employment decisions based on information from social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook raise many interesting legal questions. Today, I’ll look at a few possible discrimination issues that suggest such sources should be used with caution.
In Part II of this series, I cautioned against the risk of thinking that old wisdom no longer [...]
Employers Using Facebook for Background Checking, Part I
Is it legal?
This post originally appeared oncollegerecruiter.com
Recently there has been considerable media attention to instances of employers rejecting candidates or firing employees based on information obtained from social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook.
For example, see New York Times: “For Some, Online Persona Undermines a Résumé,” telling this story:
When a small consulting company [...]
Employers Using Facebook for Background Checking, Part II
A couple of months ago, when I wrote the post “Employers Using Facebook for Background Checking” and the similar post at collegerecruiter.com, I had no idea it would be such a hot topic, generating several interviews and other interesting phone conversations.
In the course of these further discussions, I had some further thoughts (funny how that [...]
Beyond “Name, Rank & Serial No.” in Reference Checking
A few weeks ago, I found a nice concise piece in HR Daily Advisor (BLR) with some good tips for making reference checking more than a pro forma exercise.
Some of the points:
Make reference checking a personal matter, not a matter for “Personnel” (talking to the candidate’s immediate supervisor, not the HR department)
Ask about the [...]
Suing Competitors for Using Illegals
A new trend: businesses suing competitors for hiring illegal workers to achieve an unfair advantage.
In the first of a series of lawsuits, a temporary employment agency that supplies farm workers sued a grower and two competing companies on Monday.
Similar cases claiming violations of federal anti-racketeering laws have yielded mixed results. The California lawsuit is believed [...]
More on Employers’ Immigration Obligations
Yesterday, I wrote about immigration. Today, I happened on a few related items.
First, while looking at back issues of the St. Louis Bar Journal, for which I am preparing an article, I found:
“A Brief Overview of the United States Immigration System” by immigration attorney George S. Newman (.pdf)
For those, like me, whose head [...]
Some Immigration Law Tips for Employers
Congress seems to be stuck in the process of passing much-needed immigration law reform. But employers must still comply with existing law — an obligation that can get sticky.
I ran across an article that briefly summarizes employers’ obligations — and dilemmas.
The basic obligations are:
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Vertical Job Search Engine Developments
Joel Cheesman, at his blog Cheezhead, is keeping a close eye on some interesting developments in vertical job search.
This Blawg still has the top two hits in the google search “vertical job search,” proving again how much Google loves blogs.
Ah, but google hit no. 2 quotes Cheesman, proving again that sometimes the blogosphere is [...]
