Blogs / 2010 / March

During its February 2010 special session, the Oregon Legislature adopted Senate Bill 1045, prohibiting employers from using credit histories in making employment-related decisions. The law goes into effect on July 1, 2010 and makes it “an unl... More...

Continuing the conversation on the importance of executive buy-in, you cannot expect to change the fundamental culture of your organization unless that change is seen as needed by your CEO and then promoted through actions and words by the CEO dire... More...

When the economy is in bad shape, the job market is usually worse. Those with jobs are trying to stay employed and people without jobs are desperately trying to find a new job, both can be extremely stressful. If you put in the time and effort ... More...

by Michael G. Brandt - BrightMove Recruiting Software This is Part 2 in a series of articles I am writing to help companies in their efforts to select recruiting software and applicant tracking systems. In this article, I want to cover how to na... More...

On the first weekend in March – mostly sunny weather, briskly seasonal temperatures without the customary roaring and “marching in” mountain winds – we had our first Busy Women’s Retreat at the serene, scenic Blue Mountain Retreat Center, located in ... More...

By Vivien Bergl, LCSW, CEAP Employee Assistance Program Coordinator I recently went online to a site that promised to police my daughter’s use of the internet. After typing in her email address (which does not have her name) they gave me a mini ... More...

We have been tracking the undermanagement epidemic closely for more than 10 years since we first identified it in our research. We've intensified our study of undermanagement since we first reported on it in the landmark report we issued in June 2004... More...

Businesses have been wrestling with the problem of how to embrace the wave of younger Gen Y workers flooding the workforce. Cytiva has weighed in on that subject with their many recruiting software webinars, including Recruiting 2.0 and Best Pr... More...

An e-mail inquiry and a Globe & Mail article last week, converged to illustrate the rapidly growing need for organizations to significantly boost their coaching and development skill-building efforts. The Globe & Mail article proclaimed that ... More...

Healthji is an organization which focuses on helping corporations deliver High Performance Business results– WITHOUT EMPLOYEE BURN OUT. The increasingly complex and global marketplace has resulted in longer work hours, higher performance expectatio... More...

"Farming looks mighty easy when your plough is a pencil, and you're a thousand miles from the corn field." (his emphasis) — Dwight Eisenhower, thirty-fourth American president, speech in Peoria, Illinois * Effective systems follow, serve, and ... More...

We cheer for our favorite teams in sports, communities, schools and even families. So why don't we see workplace teams in the same rah-rah way? For all the big talk, matching T-shirts and off-site strategy sessions, calling a group of people a tea... More...

Stability replaces job-hopping as employees dream of jobs for life A recent Global Workforce Study by Towers Watson identified that more workers are replacing their job-hopping ambitions with dreams of a job for life. The 2010 Global Workforce S... More...

Internet Etiquette at Work By Vivien Bergl, LCSW, CEA, EAP Coordinator This week we are going to talk about Internet etiquette at work. First let’s talk about using the Internet at work. It’s important to know what your organization’s policy ... More...

Career Disruption Stress or Surviving “The Jack Benny Dilemma” When It Really Is “Your Money or Your Life” This week I was the keynote speaker at the Forty Plus annual dinner (www.40plus-dc.org/), a volunteer-based, Washington, DC, career transit... More...

"No one is apathetic except those in pursuit of someone else's objectives." — Henry Ford, early 20th century American automobile pioneer Don't use money to try and shape behavior or boost performance. It rarely works. If you think it has... More...

New story from CNN Money published by Daniel Pleasant March 29, 2010 Log into HR.com to see entire story. Salary.com CompAnalyst Now Reporting Market Data for More Than 3,900 Jobs Salary.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: SLRY), a leading provider of... More...

New story from Government Executive published by Daniel Pleasant March 29, 2010 Log into HR.com to see entire story. Talent Management Lessons from the Road to the Final Four This was a bit of a rough weekend for my brother, Steve. His bel... More...

New story from MarketWire published by Daniel Pleasant March 29, 2010 Log into HR.com to see entire story. Halogen Software Makes the Grade; Delivers Industry First and Only Talent Management Suite Designed for the Education Market Halogen... More...

New story from The Age published by Mortimer Goth March 29, 2010 Log into HR.com to see entire story. Pay rises for public servant 'CEOs' FUTURE secretaries of federal government departments can look forward to higher pay, after the remun... More...

New story from The Punch published by Mortimer Goth March 29, 2010 Log into HR.com to see entire story. Opposition mounts against remuneration law in Kwara Opposition has continued to mount against the proposed law to make provision for re... More...

New story from CityAM published by Mortimer Goth March 29, 2010 Log into HR.com to see entire story. Lloyds pumps up CEO’s bonus LLOYDS Banking Group has rewritten chief executive Eric Daniels’ bonus contract, meaning he will receive up to... More...

Securing executive sponsorship is one of our five tenets for strategic employee recognition, but not one I blog about frequently enough. So this week I’m focusing my blog posts on the importance of executive sponsorship, kicking off with an excel... More...

As a recruiter, you've more than likely run into a hiring situation that involved a quota. Whether you support the idea of hiring quotas or not - they are a lightening rod issue. The problem they try to solve is legit: the representation of ... More...

It’s hard enough to find work these days without having pre-hire roadblocks, such as credit checks, thrown in front of you. Many companies use credit checks as part of their standard pre-employment background check. The Society for Human Resource Man... More...

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New Oregon Law Bans Use of Credit Check for Employment Related Purposes

Executive Buy-In Essential & Necessary for Culture Change

Top Ten Ways to Find a Job

Selecting Recruiting Software: Understand your pricing options, it can save you thousands

A Busy Women’s Retreat: “Turning Seeds of Dissolution into Fruitful Renewal” – From Each One Letting Go to All Helping One Another Grow

Internet part 3 Internet Safety for Kids and Teens

"Undermanagement Epidemic Revisited (Part I)"

Cytiva Talent Management Software Catching on with “Gen ABC”

Coaching and Developing Looming Large for Recovery and Growth

Innovative Corporate Health and Wellness Solutions

Systems and Structure Pathways and Pitfalls

A Coach’s Playbook for Workplace Teams

Employees See Enrichment as Most Desirable Career Option

Internet Etiquette at Work

Career Disruption Stress or Surviving “The Jack Benny Dilemma”

Reward and Recognition Pathways and Pitfalls

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