Researchers estimate that as many as 70-90% of people with autism are unemployed and will experience longterm unemployment. College and university graduates with autism aren't excluded from this trend, with 85% of recent graduates with autism experiencing longterm unemployment, even while the national average is 4.5%. CEOs now rank diversity and inclusion as a top ... Read Full Article
What We Can Learn From Starbucks Closing its US Pay Gaps
Starbucks Executive Vice President and chief Partner Officer, Lucy Helm, announced last week that the company has closed all race, sex and gender-based wage gaps in its American operations. The news was shared at Starbucks' annual shareholder meeting and positioned as part of its overall growth strategy: investing in partners, global expansion and social impact. Closing the ... Read Full Article
Grow Your Employment Brand & Reach Tech-Savvy Candidates
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
Where to Start Today Building Your Talent Brand
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. Why do you need a talent brand? Because measuring, monitoring and improving an organization's reputation is becoming a crucial component of talent acquisition strategies for any company in today’s labor market. Your talent ... Read Full Article
How to Interview Job Candidates and Uncover the Best Talent
With the evolution of data science in the human resources arena, there are opportunities for hiring managers to have the kind of insight that wasn’t possible 10 years ago. We can uncover things beyond what’s on a candidate’s resume, using the interview to assess for culture fit as well as experience. In this post, we’ll offer some tips and explore the science behind a great ... Read Full Article
Five Ways to Find Your Tribe with Social Media
There is something comforting about returning to a place where you felt like you belong. I recently had the opportunity to return to Denver/Boulder area. I spent most of my 20s in this area. This is where I found a great group of folks who let me be myself and I was able to truly belong. While I was in Denver, we had the chance to get together again and while it had been almost ... Read Full Article
Are Rehires a Risk or a Sure Thing?
Steve Jobs left Apple, a company he co-founded, and then returned to take the organisation to new heights. Several years ago, the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) rehired more than 300 of its previously fired workers. A number of professional coaches, including Art Shell of the Oakland Raiders and Bobby Cox of the Atlanta Braves, were fired and then rehired. In fact, the New ... Read Full Article
SHRM Recertification Basics: Why Should You Recertify?
Having an HR certification was a differentiator in my early HR career and in those moments that I needed clarity or a base on which to build a strategy, program or plan, I found the foundation of my HR certification important. It is something I have drawn from and built on in a variety of circumstances. An HR certification is critical to furthering of the HR profession because ... Read Full Article
New to HR? Understanding Company Property
Being in your first official business role can be extremely exciting. You're fresh out of school and have been waiting on the moment you'll get that "You're Hired!" callback. You start at your new company and they hand over a company laptop and phone for you to use, with a set of rules and regulations to go with it. Company property isn't your property, that is always the ... Read Full Article
5 SXSW Trends to Take Home With You
Now that SXSW has wrapped for the year, I thought it would be a good idea to look back at some of the conference's biggest trends and think about which ones would be the most useful to you, me, and us in the long term. Sometimes ideas or gadgets blow up and have a brief moment in the zeitgeist. They may sound exciting when you first hear about them, but they're functionally ... Read Full Article
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