Join me for a webinar on 4/19 at 11-12 AM CST for 7 Ways to Super-charge Your Talent Brand. HRCI & SHRM credits available. Click here to register. A client and local HR leader from a manufacturing business recently told me that she wished to find more candidates with tech skills. She’s not seeking developers but simply tech-savvy employees. Many of her current ... Read Full Article
4 Ways to Deal With the Helicopter Parents of Your Candidates
I once hired school teachers. Most of our new teachers were hired fresh out of college. They were eager, and talented, if a bit overindulged. Many recent graduates never had a time without their parents’ involvement. The helicopter parent was always around to influence their kids’ coaches, counselors, teachers, professors, advisors, and even mentors! So, the recent ... Read Full Article
5 Ways Recruiting has Become a Collaborative Process
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
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