How Often Do Jobseekers Update LinkedIn Profiles? (Infographic)
Think back to the last time you updated your résumé. Was it the last time you got a promotion? Or did you update it before you started your current role?
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Why Learning and Development Will Be Better in a Post-Pandemic World
Overnight, most organizations had to completely change how they developed and delivered their training experiences in response to COVID-19. The learning and development (L&D) industry wasn’t known for its agility. Courses often took weeks to develop, and it took months to ensure each employee was able to attend lengthy training sessions in white-walled conference rooms.
Minimum Wage and OT for Domestic and Homecare Employees in 2015
Direct homecare and domestic service employees are currently not covered by the overtime and minimum wage requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), but this is going to change in 2015, says Susan Prince, JR, BLR Legal Editor. Happy Thanksgiving, Readers! Here’s Prince’s summary of the changes: Direct Care Workers Effective January 1, 2015, […]
Why Recruiters Need to Lean into Flexibility and Wellness
There’s never been a time when a greater number of people collectively quit their jobs in search of something else. In September 2021 alone, over 4.4 million people left their jobs, according to the latest numbers shared by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. And in a survey of freelancers we worked on with Opinium […]
Refusing to Believe
Over the past few weeks, we heard from our readers about their strange experiences from the HR trenches. For example, there was the employee who was too honest during a g-chat and the applicant who blew the interview with an inappropriate joke.
Stolen Family Photo Costs Candidate the Job
The Discovery Channel recently aired its new series, “Deadliest Job Interview,” and while that makes for a good HRSBT in itself, it also reminds us of CareerBuilder’s annual survey related to the strangest things HR personnel have experienced while interviewing potential candidates.
Consequences for Failure to Recertify
An employee had to recertify his qualifying condition because of an established pattern of potential Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) misuse, but he failed to cooperate with the recertification process and didn’t provide the requested information. If he seeks FMLA protection for future absences, should we deny the request, or are we required to […]
Financial Wellness: 59% of Employees Say Stress of Finances Negatively Impacts Work Performance
The financial well-being of U.S. employees reversed direction this year following several years of steady improvement, according to a new survey by Willis Towers Watson, a global advisory, broking, and solutions company. The biennial survey also revealed a large increase in the number of employees who say their financial woes are negatively affecting their lives […]
Which Three Fictional Characters Best Describe You?
This week’s Oswald Letter is a guest post from Elizabeth Petersen, Simplify Compliance’s executive vice president of strategy and revenue.
Predicting Success is Hard
How good are you at picking winners? If you’re one of the 70 million Americans who recently filled out a bracket for the NCAA men’s basketball tournament, you probably have a sense of how hard it is to predict success. How well did you do?