How Labor Relations Impacts HR Even If You are Union Free

Understanding How Unions Work in Your Workplace

Labor Relations is old school HR For many human resources professionals, labor relations is a part of old school personnel work. Not the kind of stuff we do anymore in a world with social media,talent communities and millennials demanding instant promotions. The place I work doesn’t even have a union, how is going to affect […]

Confessions of a Passive Job Seeker and a Terrible Candidate Experience

My experience as a passive job seeker

At this point, we can all agree that candidate experience is important, right? Good. With that in mind, I want to share a personal story – one that was prompted by a poor candidate experience from an unlikely culprit and one that is extraordinarily unusual because I am, in fact, not actively seeking employment. These […]

Demanding Transparency

Workplace Transparency

I used to believe in something I called controlled transparency.  Except I don’t think any message can be controlled.  Only transparency is transparent.  The rest is fake, and in the end it is out of our control unless we choose to be completely honest with ourselves, our customers, and those around us. Having spent nearly […]

Top 5 Mistakes Employers Make on I-9 Forms

The keys to success in working with I-9s

USCIS I-9 Form Expires August 31, 2012 As a compliance consultant one of the areas where HR mistakes show up is in dealing with immigration, the infamous I-9. This is a form where every “I” needs to be dotted, every “t” crossed and every appropriate line filled in. Here are some of the mistakes that […]

The Boss’s Guide to Micromanaging Your Virtual Team

Managing Virtual Teams

Dealing with a Micromanaging Boss We’ve all dealt with bad managers and a shitty boss.  Heck, my career has been defined by craptastic managers.  I’ve worked with my share of horrible bosses, and it’s likely I learned more from them than I originally thought.  I learned what I didn’t like as an employee and the […]

Calculating the ROI of Boomerang Employees

Ex-Employees:  The Rehire Metric

I wanted to revisit the subject of hiring boomerang employees. In my post How to Hire Backwards with Boomerang Employees I talked about the positives of hiring former employees and how many companies today are realizing that they may be a very good deal. They are a cheaper hire, they are more quickly productive and […]