Hiring the wrong candidate doesn’t just affect the hiring manager; it affects the company as a whole and the people that work hard to keep it afloat. If someone is not on board with the values and goals that your business wants to uphold, it can be detrimental. Bad hires waste time and resources. How do you know if your next hire will mesh with the ecosystem of your workplace? ... Read Full Article
How Will “Hire American” Affect Your Business?
On April 18 President Trump signed a new executive order aimed at forcing business to prioritize American candidates. The Hire American order proposes changes to the H-1B skilled visa program. Each year the H-1B program awards visas to thousands of skilled workers, many of them in the tech industry or other STEM fields, to work in the United States for a few years. Top tech ... Read Full Article
Handling an Employee Resignation
As the founder of Proven, a small business job board, I’ve fortunately not had to deal with too many employee resignations and none of them have been particularly sour departures, but it is an inevitable consequence of being a manager and business owner. It’s easy to have an emotional reaction and feelings of rejection when someone tells you they no longer want to work for ... Read Full Article
6 H-1B Alternatives for Hiring Foreign Talent
U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) has announced that it reached the annual 85,000 H-1B visa cap in the first five days of April 2017. While USCIS has not yet announced the total number of H-1B petitions it received, we know that, once again, USCIS will conduct a computer-generated lottery in the coming weeks to determine which petitions they will process. ... Read Full Article
How Can Employers Support Autistic Workers?
Over 3.5 million people in America are on the autistic spectrum yet only 19.3 percent of people with disabilities were working or actively seeking work as of 2014. Why do autistic people to appear to make up such a small amount of the workforce? Employers can help to change this by becoming more open to diversity and learning more about the support they can provide, both from ... Read Full Article
Diversity Figures That Need More Attention
I have been doing some research lately on how talent acquisition, HR business partners, and business executives are doing when it comes to diversity. What I am finding out that we have made strides in one area but need to focus on a few key diverse groups that require immediate attention. Last week, I read a blog about how employers are not making strides in recruiting ... Read Full Article
Wages, Savings and Hiring: Disability in the Workplace
This week a friend of mine was finally able to access disability benefits. It was a months long alienating and depressing process. In truth, he would have been happier to continue working but no workplace was able -- or perhaps willing -- to make the kind of accommodations he needs. That's why we're reading reading about how poor the employment prospects really are for many ... Read Full Article
From Fake News to Fake Jobs: How Facebook Is Failing
Earlier this month Facebook announced that it would be rolling out a new program to target advertising discrimination on the platform using artificial intelligence. In addition to strengthening the language in their anti-discrimination policy, Facebook will roll out an AI tool that will identify and flag ads that offer "housing, employment or credit opportunit[ies] and either ... Read Full Article
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