Archive for 2012

Our Featured Hiring Management Partnerships: Penn Stainless Products, EcoTech Marine and More!

Wednesday, May 16th, 2012

The demand for HR experts is up, according to a recent SmartMoney article, even though hiring them is not. Sure, we know it’s the economy. So how do savvy companies manage? Many are taking advantage of outsourcing services like ours to meet their needs. We partner with dynamic companies to perform strategic hiring initiatives on [...]

What’s the Real Cost of Picking One Bad Apple?

Wednesday, May 9th, 2012

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics and anew CareerBuilder survey on the cost of a bad hire. The survey also found that 69 percent of employers reported that bad hires lowered their company’s productivity, affected worker morale and even resulted in legal issues. Ugh!

Our Featured Hiring Management Partnerships: MileStone Bank, FLSmidth and NACE

Thursday, May 3rd, 2012

hireVision is not a staffing service or recruiter. We partner with dynamic companies to perform strategic hiring initiatives on their behalf, helping them attract the best employees. We provide support and guidance throughout the process. Our clients want to build a team that will help take their organizations to the next level. Is your business [...]

Don’t Overlook This Essential Employee Handbook Detail

Wednesday, April 25th, 2012

Your employee handbook is the road map for how to navigate working at your organization. It is your opportunity to clearly explain your procedures and policies, so do your company an enormous favor and make sure you have every new-hire sign an acknowledgment of receipt for it. –Tina Hamilton, President & CEO of hireVision Group, Inc.

Keeping Up With the Hiring Trends: Fashionably Hip Edition

Wednesday, April 18th, 2012

Riding out the economic downturn has not been easy. People and businesses (even the many famous and successful ones) have cut back on their spending, learning to prioritize and make due with what they have until things looked up again. That said, is your company using the latest, best hiring techniques to locate and attract the best talent from the current sea of applicants looking for work?

(What? This is a human resources blog. What did you expect? Kardashian updates?)

Think Working From Home Is OK for FMLA? Don’t Make the DOL LOL!

Friday, April 13th, 2012

We’ve said it before, and we will say it again: Make sure you understand the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) before one of your employees uses it, or you could find yourself in a heap of trouble. The Department of Labor (DOL) does not take kindly to businesses that don’t comply.

Weigh In on an HR Hot Topic: Requesting Facebook Passwords from Job Applicants & Employees

Thursday, April 5th, 2012

Unless you have been living under a rock (and that rock was not in range of a 3 or 4G network), you have heard by now about how some hiring managers are requesting Facebook passwords from prospective employees.

Our Very Own Philly Native, President and CEO, Tina Hamilton, Tapped as Hiring Expert by phillyBurbs.com

Wednesday, March 28th, 2012

Break out the cheesesteaks, everyone! hireVision’s President and CEO, Tina Hamilton, was quoted this week by phillyBurbs.com in a feature article on local labor market trends. The article, “Local labor market accelerating” by Christian Schappel, focuses on the Bucks County area, but the information Tina shared also resonates with much of the greater Philadelphia region: [...]

Happy Employees Have Room to Grow

Tuesday, March 20th, 2012

If you want your business to grow and evolve into something better than it’s ever been before, don’t forget to nurture the same kind of growth from your employees. Keeping your talent engaged and satisfied with their role with in your company is more important than you might think.

Welcome Kathy Percetti, and Check Out the Latest Word from hireVision

Wednesday, March 14th, 2012

If you haven’t yet had the pleasure of meeting or speaking with our new office manager and bookkeeper Kathy Percetti, we’d like to take this opportunity to introduce her to you. Kathy joined hireVision Group, Inc., in January of 2012, bringing her 20-plus years of small business bookkeeping and office management experience. She is also [...]