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HRIS Records Checklist: How Do You Stand?

HRIS Personnel Records Checklist The more questions to which you answer “yes,” the better your computer system is able to handle personnel records. Records maintained Do you have a computer system for the following personnel records:   Yes No Beneficiaries of benefits plan? ❒ ❒ Cost of benefits plan? ❒ ❒ Date employees admitted into […]

Train Your Workers on These Ergonomic Best Practices

Professional ergonomist Kevin Butler recently penned an article on our sister site, HR.BLR.com®, regarding the latest up-to-date information on how employees can improve well-being in their workspaces. Click the “yesterday’s Advisor” link in the first paragraph for the first half of Butler’s advice. Here are the last three ergonomic tips from Butler: 3. Sitting up […]

Bad Company: They All Know Your Name

A recent survey states that the majority of Americans would not want to work at a company if that company has a bad reputation. Interestingly, nearly 20% more women would refuse to work at such a job than men! According to a recent survey by CR Magazine and Cielo Talent, 86% of America’s females do […]

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Social Networking Tools: A Q&A with Rebecca Barnes-Hogg of YOLO Insights

As social media sites gain more traction in the employment and recruitment world, it’s essential for recruiters to stay up to date on the latest and most popular sites and tools. After all, 21st-century candidates live online. Anyone with access to the internet can post a job opening online, but there’s so much more out […]

Draw me a butt

Litigation Value: Frank can collect from Pam and Dwight the cost of cleaning paint off his truck. “Shouldn’t someone get fired for this?” That’s the question Pam asked while confronting the large orange butts that someone (Frank) spray-painted on her warehouse mural in “Vandalism,” the second of two new episodes tonight. Of course someone should get fired, […]

Keep Them on the Hook with Alumni Programs

We recently discussed employment branding with professor, corporate speaker, author, and advisor Dr. John Sullivan. Today we hear from him on alumni programs and external brand development. Q: In regards to alumni networks, how should the group be limited to those you know love your company? Some workers leave because they were involuntarily terminated, or […]

Labor Day 2008: September 1

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the first observance of Labor Day is believed to have been a parade of 10,000 workers on September 5, 1882, in New York City, organized by Peter J. McGuire, a Carpenters and Joiners Union secretary. By 1893, more than half the states were observing a “Labor Day” on one […]