Hiring
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9 April 2012 at 08 : 27 AM
The Importance of I-9
The following is a special guest post from an HR Expert at G&A Partners. Can you imagine being fined almost $800 because your employee forgot to sign a piece of paper? Multiply that one mistake by thousands of employees and the result is a huge headache for business owners who fail to pay attention to I-9 forms. The ...
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26 March 2012 at 19 : 52 PM
Employers Forcing Job Applicants to Hand Over Facebook Passwords
What Employers Are Doing In the past few months, an increasing number of employers have been demanding access to job candidate’s social media pages as a requirement in the application process. Facebook has seen what it calls a “distressing increase” in the number of people being asked to give employers their passwords over the past few ...
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6 February 2012 at 09 : 00 AM
Houston Companies Pay the Price for Illegal Employees
When US immigration officials audited Advanced Containment Systems Inc, last year, it discovered that 44% of the company's workforce comprised of illegal immigrants. They found ID cards supposedly issued by the "Texas Department of Safety", which had misspelled words like "identification" and "department". One even said "novelty item" on the back. The ...
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23 January 2012 at 10 : 40 AM
Nice to Meet You
Do you make a good first impression? Stand out to employers with these simple tips from psychologist Ann Demarais, ph.D., who founded the executive coaching firm First Impressions. Lock Eyes On average, people make eye contact 70-80% of the time. Think about people you know who don’t do this. Do they come across as shifty or lacking in ...
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9 January 2012 at 16 : 04 PM
Unusual Ways to Spot Exceptional Talent
A pristine resume doesn’t always translate into amazing performance on the job. Author George Anders has developed some unusual strategies for spotting your next top performer. Do They Bounce Back Quickly? In our results and reputation-driven culture, there is often the impulse to appear invincible. But people who have overcome obstacles and ...
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31 October 2011 at 15 : 58 PM
Hiring Horror Stories
Guest post from the Million Dollar Employee Just in time for Halloween, G&A Partners is resurrecting one of our most popular topics: Hiring Horror Stories! If you’ve seen my video (it’s right here, at www.milliondollaremployee.com) you may remember meeting a certain job applicant named Doug. Mr. ACME had quite an experience during ...
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8 June 2011 at 16 : 08 PM
5 Tips for Optimizing your Job Listing for Search Engines
More and more often people who are searching for jobs use the internet to search for potential listings. To get the word out there about your job postings and attract qualified candidates, you want the search engines to pick up your postings as well. Below are 5 tips on optimizing your blog posts for search engines to bring in the best candidates ...
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29 April 2011 at 19 : 51 PM
How to Avoid the Four Biggest Organization Mistakes
People think that just by screening candidates carefully, their organization ideally won’t have any problems. But what do you do about the people who have been at the company long before the stationery was even created or people that were hired based on personal connections and are managing the company in improper fashions? The most ...
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8 April 2011 at 15 : 36 PM
HR and Business links of the week
This week we would like to focus on some good news! Hiring in the U.S. has taken a turn for the better; unemployment is lower than it has been in years and more jobs are being created: Falling in line with economists' forecasts, Private sector adds 201,000 jobs in March: ADP. As government contractors wait for the 2011 budget to ...
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11 March 2011 at 20 : 42 PM
Chipotle busted for hiring illegal workers
When you think of delicious, affordable burritos that are high in nutrition, Chipotle Grill usually is one of the first restaurants that come to mind. However, when you think about illegal immigrants working the kitchen of a national restaurant chain, Chipotle is one of the last places you would expect. In 2010, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement ...
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