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Many applicants today will blast resumes to hundreds of employers and using electronic means makes this an easy, common practice. Applicants using this method leave hiring managers with stacks of resumes with little genuine interest to sift through. A pre-interview telephone screen may be your best bet is weeding out the – well, weeds – leaving you with more roses from ...

Employers may no longer use previous versions of the I-9 Form. The revised list improves the security and effectiveness of the Form I-9 process. The list specifies that expired documents are no longer acceptable forms of identification or employment authorization. Allowing for expired documents makes it more difficult for employers to verify an employee’s identity and employment authorization and compromises the ...

Hiring employees with disabilities is a great way to bring diverse perspectives and skill sets into your organization. But how much does it actually cost to bring them on? And what sort of assistance is available to help you? The US Department of Education and Monster Government Solutions are working together to give you a chance to get the facts on ...

Many organizations spend considerable resources collecting information on candidates before making a hiring decision and then discard or permanently file away this information after an employee is hired. But information used for hiring decisions can often be used to accelerate employee development and performance. Selection and development processes typically begin with the same basic action: Gathering information on a person's strengths ...

20 ways to motivate your employees without raising their pay It is a costly mistake to get lost in the false theory that more money equals happy employees. Believing this is costing you valuable time, revenue, employees...and even threatening your own job. Cash will always be a major factor in motivating people and a solid compensation plan is critical to attracting ...

Most HR managers intuitively know the self-reinforcing relationship between employees and customers: if your employees don’t feel valued, neither will your customers. But let’s take this one step further: Do happy employees ensure organizational success? The answer is: it depends. It depends on a lot of factors, such as the utility and value of a company’s offering, market demand, and competition, ...

“Happiness in the workplace is a strategic advantage. Service comes from the heart, and people who feel cared for will care more.” - Hal G. Rosenbluth, author of The Customer Comes Second Research confirms the self-reinforcing relationship between employee- and customer satisfaction. From the 1997 classic, The Service Profit Chain, to the latest Wharton study on the bottom line impact ...

As companies move from transactional, short-term hiring to longer, relationship-building methods, we see that employer and candidate pass through a clear three-phase cycle. These three phases describe the level and quality of engagement between employee and employer, which we call the Engagement Cycle: h3. 1. Attract. The Attract phase is a long-term “dance” between you and the candidate. It includes every ...

Smart “investors” in talent markets find bargains during a business slowdown. The "Engagement Cycle":http://hrguru.monster.com/training/articles/100-3-phases-of-the-employer-employee-engagement-cycle helps employers take advantage of candidate psychology during a slowdown to attract top talent for the long term. A slowing economy has tangible burdens, as employers become cautious in hiring (or even lay off workers). More subtle and insidious is the way even a gentle slowdown in ...

Three waves of change are converging worldwide to create a talent tsunami in the workforce, shifting power from the employer to the talented individual. Those three waves are (1) demographic changes, (2) candidate empowerment, and (3) the increasing value of talented employees relative to other success factors. Recruiters and managers who ignore this tsunami will be swept away; those who take ...

Writing Follow-up Letters to Potential Employers An Example of a Letter for Impact. In today's job search some of the most basic etiquette has been lost in the age of electronic communication. Email, IM, Cell phones have allowed constant connectivity, but what is going to make you stand out? OK, so you have just interviewed for the position of a lifetime...what ...

It didn't take long for Woodbriar of Wilmington, a skilled nursing and rehabilitation facility in Massachusetts, to earn its payback from a healthcare consultant's advice. Woodbriar is a successful organization with a clearly defined mission and culture. But in its industry (healthcare) and specific niches (long-term care and short-term rehabilitation), recruitment is an ongoing challenge. Retention is also an issue. To ...

  Recitational Staffing!   Next, the applicant, who is called to give a twenty minute presentation on the question asked by the employer, is selected by the HR department. In this type of recruitment process, not even the screening process is done by an external agency. The whole process of the appointment, from applications to the appointment letter is completely done ...

What makes this three-dimentional pronged approach works is the influence of ‘Whole Language Philosophy’ in practice that facilitates successful returns of our invested time, efforts and relationships.  

While hiring a new team member can be a shot in the dark, it doesn’t have to be. Follow these six simple strategies: Use an Up-To-Date (and accurate) Job Description A job description should reflect what the employee is to do on a regular, not daily, basis. It is not how the employee will be evaluated; rather, it should define what ...

On July 1st, the USCIS - ICE have announced its initiative on 'Notices of Inspection' (NOIs) to 652 businesses nationwide. The Notices alert business owners for the inspection of their hiring records to determine whether or not they are following or complying to the eligibility verification laws and regulations.  

The immigration debate isn't just about undocumented workers, employers are key players too. No matter which side of the debate you favor or what role you play in the hiring process, job seekers of all kinds should understand the rules that employers must follow when hiring both citizens and noncitizens. The Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) of 1996 says employers ...

Be Aware of Employment Laws! The interview process and application forms, in today's arena, are land mines waiting to be stepped on! There are more employment laws today than ever before and questions you used to be able to ask are now grounds for discrimination lawsuits. If you aren't familiar with these laws, you must become so, and the sooner the ...

It should be no surprise that the way people treat each other within an organization impacts how they ultimately treat external customers. In other words, good internal service drives good external customer service. How employees are treated is a reflection of an organization’s internal service culture. To assess your firm’s service culture, ask your employees: Would you refer a friend to ...

Most organizations have mission statements that articulate their purpose and reason for being. But how meaningful are they? Try this interesting two-part experiment: • If you were to randomly approach employees and ask them to repeat the company’s mission, how many would be able to repeat it? • Of the employees who can actually recite your company’s mission statement, how many ...