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Advancing Careers, Achieving Your Goals: The Do's and Don'ts of Career Pathing: The US economy has been on the rebound, and employment in the States has been growing solidly since late 2011. While this is terrific news for the many Americans who have been unemployed for far too long, companies that are starting to hire again must face head-on the challenges of finding skilled employees to fill their leadership pipeline. What’s more, with increased job mobility for employees, organizations must vie to keep their top producers from jumping ship. read more
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Tough Questions: Aligning Workforce Strategies to Organizational Objectives: What are the best ways to integrate workforce and business performance data into your analytics tools? And how do you align workforce strategies with business objectives? HRIQ readers and industry practitioners weigh in. read more
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Obama's State of the Union Address: A Call to Action for L&D Professionals: Although businesses have created more than three million jobs in less than two years, millions of Americans are still out of work. It may be seemingly incongruous to those outside of HR and business development that many companies—especially those in the science and technology arena—are struggling to close the infamous “skills gap” presented by a lack of trade-specific training. During the January 24th Presidential State of the Union address, United States President Barrack Obama addressed this burning issue. read more
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Legal Pitfalls of Employees That Telecommute: Telecommuting could seem like a win-win situation for employers and employees, especially with the price of gasoline. However, there are a few pitfalls HR managers should watch out for when company managers suggest (or employees request) telecommuting... read more
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The Social Media Password Debate: Apparently, in response to the legal cases reprimanding employers for improperly obtaining access to their employees’ and applicants’ personal social media sites, employers came up with what would seem to be a very effective work-around—demanding the passwords or threatening termination or cessation of the application process. Really? read more
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The NLRB Is Watching Your Social Media Policy Whether You Have a Union or Not: Although you may not realize it, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), which is usually thought of as protecting the rights of union workers in the U.S., also has the ability to reach into non-unionized workplaces. Most recently, the NLRB has been scrutinizing company Social Media Policies and routinely finding that they violate the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) section 7. read more
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Social Media Policies On The Wrong Side Of A Diversity Issue: If you are involved in any Social Media sites at all, particularly Facebook or Twitter, one topic that's all the rage is the issue of prospective employers having the ability to access the Facebook pages of applicants. Privacy issues aside (and that is a pretty big "aside" for me), any company that engages in this policy is putting themselves on the wrong side of a diversity issue, if not an outright discrimination issue. read more
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Lin-sanity and Racial Juxtaposition: People have excessively harped on Lin’s success in the NBA, in great part because Chinese is not the first ethnic group that comes to mind when thinking of professional basketball players. This takes us right to my theory of racial juxtaposition, which I would define as the American obsession with constantly defining and redefining racial “norms”— and finding it notable when someone is a success outside of the so-called norm. read more
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Neural Pathways at Work: How Our Brains Deal with Diversity: How we view and handle workplace diversity may not be rocket science, but it does have scientific support through the study of the human brain and neuroplasticity which impacts how we view others. read more
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How Transparent are Your Practices?: Take all of the same work styles of your current department and stick them in any other company. What's different? What's the same? It's easy to say that your co-workers are all different, but is your process different? How so? read more
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The Nine Things that Recruiters Do that Irritate Me—A Recruiter: It's easy for someone on the other side of the table to say what they dislike about this industry, but have you ever done so? I have. read more
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The Value of Honesty in a Down Economy: “I met with a recruiter several weeks ago. I thought it went well; but looking back at the meeting, I got pumped for leads but never actually heard back from them.” read more
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May 28- 31, 2012
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