Archive for April, 2012

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.