More Tips for Developing Your Employees as Your Company Is Downsizing
Continuing from yesterday’s post, here are more tips and best practices for how you can continue developing your employees and programs as your company is downsizing.
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CMS Answers Key FF-SHOP Questions from Small Employers
Small businesses may participate in several federally facilitated Small Business Health Option Program exchanges — for example, if an employer has offices in different states — but each small employer is limited to establishing one FF-SHOP account per state. If an employer has worksites in several states, it may: (1) establish an account in each […]
Make the Candidate Experience Your Focus
In part one of this article, we noted how frustrating it can be to lose a qualified applicant during the recruiting process—especially if that person walked away because of something the organization could have done differently. We began outlining some tips for recruiters and hiring teams to improve the candidate experience to minimize how often […]
2016—Perfect Storm for HR
From recruiting to termination, 2016 is looking like the perfect storm for HR, says Attorney John Husband, whose panel opened the Advanced Employment Issues Symposium held recently in Las Vegas. Husband, with Holland & Hart LLP, was joined by Attorneys Mario Bordogna of Steptoe & Johnson PLLC, William Bowser of Young Conaway Stargatt & Taylor […]
A New Twist on Discrimination in Hiring
Here’s the scenario: As the human resources director for your company, you’re asked to sit in on the selection process for your company’s next CEO. After an intense screening process, you have three candidates to be the next leader of your company — a white male in his early 70s, a male in his 40s […]
I Have Many Skills; Giving Out Terrorist Locations Is One of Them!
LinkedIn® is a great website if you’re looking to recruit candidates for a specific role. You can find skill sets endorsed by the candidate’s “followers” and get a general idea of the person’s work history, without having to review his or her résumé. However, sometimes you find more than what you bargained for!
In search of answers to HR’s age-old question: Why do people quit?
Human resource professionals know turnover creates problems. It’s expensive and time-consuming to recruit, hire, and train new employees. And it’s often damaging to the organization when institutional knowledge walks out the door. Sometimes the reasons are clear why employees leave, sometimes not so much, but new research from job rating and recruiting marketplace Glassdoor may […]
Offering New Hires Probationary Periods
Probationary periods allow employers to see whether a new hire is capable of successfully fulfilling the duties of the job he or she is being hired for, but they can also be used as tools to weaponize at-will employment—in which employees can be terminated or quit at any time—if they aren’t implemented correctly.
Train Frontline Supervisors on 2 More Safety Best Practices
To recap, as the key interface between management and line employees, the frontline supervisor is considered by many to play a pivotal part in worker protection. Craig Hamelund, a safety specialist and educator with Oregon OSHA, recommends training your supervisors on the following best practices in safety supervision. 3. Discipline appropriately. Another practice Hamelund […]
Making Your Safety Training Sessions Super, Part 2: Techniques
Yesterday’s Advisor emphasized how important preparation is to conducting super safety training sessions. Today we discuss techniques for making training sessions more relevant and memorable.