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Recruiting during a pandemic comes with many challenges, but that doesn’t mean the candidate experience (CX) should suffer as a result. CX is even more important now than it was in the candidate-driven market, and your peers agree.
Supervisors and managers often consider performance in an employee’s current role when making decisions about promotions, but that factor alone is not enough to ensure success, according to a recent report.
By now, employers should know that the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and similar state and local laws protect the employment of qualified individuals with disabilities. And while you may be aware that the same laws offer similar protections for disabled individuals’ other areas of daily living—such as education, housing, and commerce—you may not realize […]
Seventy percent of Americans report living paycheck to paycheck, per a survey conducted by OnePoll and AmeriLife. The signs can be hard to recognize; even if you don’t see it, there’s a good chance this struggle is shared by most of the employees in your workplace. And there are growing signs throughout the economy that […]
The best questions always come from our CEA subscribers—the ones toiling away in the HR trenches. During each month we’ll reprint some of the questions they’ve put to our editors, and the answers we’ve provided. Here’s one that many employers have wondered about: What are the pay requirements when a non-exempt employee is on-call by […]
If you worked 13 years without a raise in pay, wouldn’t you quit your job? Well, maybe you wouldn’t if you didn’t work full-time—and you were elected to your job and not hired.
Keeping today’s job candidates interested in your hiring process is more challenging than ever. With so many career possibilities, job seekers are keeping their options open and want to be positive a company and its culture are the right fit before they commit.
The stakes are very high when it comes to hiring salespeople, says Consultant Joseph DiMisa. It isn’t just a matter of salary and training—it can mean an average of $2 million in lost sales. And it’s not just dollars, adds DiMisa, who is senior vice president and the head of the Sales Force Effectiveness Practice […]
Managers and Supervisors, What Do You Do When … A co-worker from another department keeps asking one of your people out, and brings candies. Your employee is not interested in dating the coworker and you are on a diet. [You should step in and put a stop to this before it turns into a lawsuit. […]
According to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, national origin discrimination includes any discrimination based on the person’s place of birth, cultural heritage, accent, or native language. Title VII also offers protection from harassment based on national origin.