Browsing Tag hiring
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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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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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22 July 2011 at 18 : 19 PM
Businesses Cautious about Hiring Due to Uncertain Economy
When the ball dropped in Times Square on New Year’s Eve 2010, people were feeling optimistic about the future of the US economy. With the recession over, a quick recovery seemed like it could be just around the corner. Some economists projected growth to be as high as 4.3% in the first quarter of the year. But then the Japanese tsunami disaster shook the ...
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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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2 February 2011 at 11 : 16 AM
An Employee’s First 90 Days
Up to 20 percent of employee turnover happens in the first 90 days on the job - yikes. Luckily, there are several easy steps you can take to integrate your employee into the company before he jumps ship. We will look at what your responsibilities and expectations should be during a new employee's first 3 months at your organization. With a little bit of ...
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26 October 2010 at 20 : 45 PM
A Frightening Employee Termination Story
Last week I was contacted by a client to conduct an investigation into a complaint of sexual harassment. I began my investigation the very next day. I interviewed the accused, the complaintant, and the witnesses named as having direct eyewitness testimony. As it turned out, all of the witnesses corroborated the complainant's version and there were no ...
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26 October 2010 at 09 : 33 AM
HR Hiring Horror Stories (Chapter 3)
The full moon rises and you look across the disturbingly serene cornfield watching the spooky figure stride towards you for their highly dreaded employee review. Welcome back to the final installment of... HR Hiring Horror Stories... Not all scary things go bump in the night, they stick around from 9-5 too. Read on for G&A Partners' HR hiring ...
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22 October 2010 at 19 : 13 PM
Business and HR Links of the Week 10/22/10
Just as age-old family discussions lie ahead for the holidays. G&A Partners is looking into those long-standing, unresolved work issues this week in our reading: Tired of hearing about social media? It’s here to stay and Kristen Frasch discusses how it’s time social media polices catch up with reality. “Fairness is in the eye of the ...
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