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HR and Recruiting News You Might Have Missed

April 25, 2011

Good afternoon, HR readers!  We hope that you had a restful weekend.  Now that we’re all back in the office, here are some news tidbits you might have missed in the past few weeks. Lawson Software: A Very Sad Ending, and an Important Lesson for HR HRM software provider Lawson will most likely be acquired [...]




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Why I-9 Compliance Should Be a Top Priority For Your Business

April 20, 2011

So you’ve gone through the entire recruiting process, received a signed offer letter and hired the perfect candidate.  If you think your role in the hiring process ends there, you are sorely mistaken.  Besides undergoing a satisfactory onboarding process, all new hires must properly complete government forms which enable them to legally call themselves employees [...]




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Recruiting Metrics to Reach Your Goals in Half the Time

April 11, 2011

My statistics professor once told me that what can not be measured can not be improved.  My philosophy professor once told me that if you don’t know where you came from, you can’t know where you are going.  Combining these two statements, I conclude that the best way to reach your end-goal is to reflect [...]




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Navigating Disability Legislation for HR Managers: Saving You Time and Money

April 5, 2011

Federal agencies have recently been abuzz about the topic of hiring disabled employees.  This comes on the heels of President Obama’s recent executive order which calls for increasing the employment of disabled individuals by 100,000 by the year 2015.  This new initiative should prove to be more effective than a similar one launched by ex-President [...]




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What Google Can Teach Us About Hiring Good Managers

March 28, 2011

Google has a reputation for being excellent at data analytics.  So when The New York Times reported that Google had decided to use its massive pool of resources to conduct a research study on the habits of good managers, I had to take a look.   Started in 2009, Google’s Project Oxygen examined over 10,000 [...]




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Recruiting Lessons From Online Video Games

March 17, 2011

A growing trend among companies is using online video games and simulations to bolster recruiting strategies.  IBM, among others, has successfully experimented with virtual job fairs, video tours and online interviews. Online video games are a welcome change from the usual format of a job posting.  They are interactive, unique to your company, and are an [...]




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Shake Up Your Interviews with 10 Questions to get Insightful & Useful Responses from Candidates

March 14, 2011

Most job candidates will have heard the same types of interview questions reworded a thousand times by the time they interview with your company.  With candidates ready for every question you have, it can be hard to garner sincere responses in an interview.  But without those sincere responses, how will you ever know if a [...]




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HRM’s twitter updates this week

March 11, 2011

New HRM On Demand Post! – Trouble finding good candidates? Don't forget about the cold call! – http://is.gd/OHXpaC #recruiting # Trouble finding good candidates? Don't forget about the cold call! – http://is.gd/OHXpaC #recruiting # We're hiring for a .NET Jr Developer in downtown Boston. Know any sharp candidates in the area? http://bit.ly/e90vuS #jobs #jobseeker #




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