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Faces of HR: How Orlando Ashworth’s Marine Corps Roots Shaped His HR Calling

For Orlando Ashworth, Chief People Officer at Blood Cancer United, the foundation of a successful HR career wasn’t built in a traditional corporate office—it was forged in the United States Marine Corps. Ashworth served and retired after 20 years in the military. His transition into the human resources field took root in 2005 when he […]

Tennessee: Delegation More Employer-Friendly

by John B. Phillips, Jr. Tuesday’s election continues Tennessee’s move toward a solid-red Republican state: In the governor’s race, Republican Bill Haslam won with an overwhelming majority, replacing two-term Democrat Phil Bredesen, who was prohibited from running for a third term. It also appears that Tennessee Republicans will make gains in both houses of the […]

Social Media Octopus–8 Tentacles Every HR Manager Must Master

Social media—It’s everywhere HR turns. In a recent BLR/HRHero-sponsored webinar, Patricia Trainor and Stephen Bruce, PhD, identified eight tentacles that you need to watch out for. Attorney Trainor is BLR’s Senior Managing Editor, HR; Bruce is editor of the HR Daily Advisor. Tentacle #1—Sourcing and Recruiting with Social Media It’s clear that social media is […]

HRDA Frankly Speaking: The Tell-Tale Patterns of AI Resumes

While a single, perfectly polished application won’t tip HR leaders off, the true giveaway of an AI-generated resume isn’t found in a single line, it’s found in the patterns left behind across the entire applicant pool. As hiring pipelines face a surge of automated submissions, Donna Fowler, SVP of Global People & Talent at SEON, […]

A School Is Also a Workplace

In the aftermath of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, the focus has been on the students—so much so that several news commentators have incorrectly referred to the deceased as “the 17 students who died in the shooting.” Among the 17 people who lost their lives were three adults, who […]

Urban Institute Criticizes Use of Stop-Loss Insurance by Small Employers

If small companies self-insure their health plans and in doing so can get stop-loss coverage with very low attachment points, they could siphon healthy lives away from the new insurance market designed by health reform to insure millions of new lives, the Urban Institute warned in a April 2013 report. The Institute explained that low […]

Immigration Bill Pushes High-Tech Plan for Employment Verification

Immigration reform legislation continues to heat up on both the state and federal fronts. In the midst of protests surrounding a new Arizona law that critics see as a license for racial profiling, a group of Democratic senators unveiled a new federal bill on April 29 that would require employers to use biometric social security […]

Employment Tests: New EEOC Fact Sheet Highlights Avoiding Bias When Screening Job Candidates and Employees; Five Best Practices

Selecting the best person for the job—be it a new hire or a candidate for promotion—is crucial to any organization’s success. But if you’re using tests and other selection procedures to help you make sound employment decisions, it’s important to be aware of how federal antibias laws limit the use of screening tools. To that […]