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 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 ready to do the same? Even it today’s unpredictable market there are exciting career opportunities out there. Great companies like these are expanding, hiring and getting noticed!Read the rest of this entry »
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 ready to do the same?
Even it today’s unpredictable market there are exciting career opportunities out there. Great companies like these are expanding, hiring and getting noticed!
For the following reasons, handbooks are valuable human resources tools:
They keep everyone up-to-date with new government regulations and compliance.
They outline what you expect from your employees. (And what they can expect from you.)
They give your business an opportunity to share its company culture.
They itemize for your talent all the company benefits they can enjoy.
They serve as a written welcome note for new-hires to your company.
This is all good stuff that can save your HR and administrative staff some time and energy by answering a lot of basic questions for employees. But there’s another reason why good handbooks are valuable: Read the rest of this entry »
Our blog: Where hiring trends and reality TV stars come together. Sort of. (image source: BuddyTV.com)
Riding out the economic downturn has not been easy. People and businesses (even many famous and successful ones) have had to cut back on their spending, learning to prioritize and make due with what they have until things look up again. That said, is your company using the latest, most-effective 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?)
In our latest edition of hireSolutions, our very own Deanna Foulke, HR assistant extraordinaire, has penned a terrific guide to what companies can do to save both time and money while mining for exceptional talent in today’s ultra-competitive employment landscape. Deanna’s article “Hiring in 2012 is taking off—Are you keeping up?”, addresses some very real concerns of modern business owners and managers:
If you’re disillusioned by the current economy, then you may be happy to hear that things might actually be looking up—at least on the job market front. A recent article published by Bloomberg Businessweek entitled “Forget the Economy. Hire Now” stated that 192,000 new jobs were added to payrolls Read the rest of this entry »
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.
We found this great bit of FMLA information over at HR Daily Advisor:
Frequently, an employee who is physically unable to come to work will perform some work for the employer from home. This has become more and more common as technological advances have made it easier for workers to perform work and communicate with co-workers from any distance.
“Leave means leave, not work from home, make no mistake,” says Kelly Coblentz, PHR, hireVision’s Director of HR Services. “The DOL certainly won’t. Any time you’ve asked or allowed your employee to do work while on FMLA, at home or on-site, the time may be deducted from the 12 weeks of FMLA time they are entitled to by law. And don’t forget you may need to pay them too!”
Worried about other FMLA or compliance matters your company faces? Email or call us at 610-443-0119 to discuss how hireVision’s HR Partnering Services can help.
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. Just check out what CNNmoney.com, The New York Times, Computerworld and Time are reporting, for example. The topic has many people concerned, on both sides of the issue.
“If you give someone your password and let them into your Facebook account as if they were you, then they will have access to your marital status, age, religion and even some medical information—all the things that companies are by law not allowed to ask you about during the hiring process,” says Tina Hamilton, president and CEO of hireVision. “With a members of Congress asking for an investigation into the practice, and Facebook’s user terms not permitting the sharing of our passwords to begin with, I just don’t think it’s wise for companies to venture into that territory.”
“Employers can still look at a person’s social media presence as a fellow user of these sites, however, and I think they should,” adds Hamilton. “That can paint a pretty good picture of who you are dealing with professionally, and it’s up-for-grabs information if you are seeing it as it appears publicly, or as an invited viewer.”
Should companies be allowed to ask for a job applicant’s Facebook password to do a background check? Tell us what you think!
For more information about NetSourcing, our revolutionary “passive sourcing” service that attracts and invites the talent you are looking for using social media and other targeted platforms, or any of our other Hiring Process Management or HR Partnering Services , please contact us at 610.443.0119 or email us.
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:
Over the past year the unemployment rate in the county has dropped from 7.2 percent to 6.5 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. In Pennsylvania, unemployment’s dropped as well, although not as sharply, from 8.1 percent last summer to 7.7 percent now.
“Last year, hiring began to take off,” said Tina Hamilton, president of hireVision Group, Inc., an outsourced Human Resources provider that specializes in hiring management.
“Companies are in need of people they can mold,” Hamilton said. “It seems like one of the strategies companies have is to find people who are willing to learn and have a strong work ethic.”
If you want your business to grow and evolve into something better than it’s ever been, don’t forget to nurture the same kind of growth in your employees. Keeping your talent engaged and satisfied in your company is more important than you might think. Productivity and the return on your hiring investments can be sabotaged when you ignore your employees’ career or personal goals and their job satisfaction.
Be blind to your employees’ goals, dreams, and job satisfaction.
The more you know about what motivates your employees and the more interest you have in their happiness and success, the more they will bring that enthusiasm to work. Even if you can’t provide a job for them that satisfies 100% of their hopes and desires there are always ways to incorporate what they love into what they do.
“You should assume when you hire someone that they will grow within their initial role in your company Read the rest of this entry »
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 currently the elected tax collector of East Rockhill Township, a position she has held 2002. Kathy holds a Bachelor’s of Science Degree in Accounting with a Minor in Management Information Systems from LaSalle University. We are thrilled to have her part of our team.
“I knew I was joining a great HR team because the whole interview and on-boarding process that I went through as a candidate was such a positive experience. hireVision really practices what they preach,” says Kathy. The professionalism and positive atmosphere didn’t stop there, either. “The staff couldn’t be more friendly in the way they welcomed me here. And, the short congratulatory messages that everyone gives each other when someone does a good job are very encouraging— It is such a great place to work.”
Well, if this is a great place to work, it’s no wonder Kathy fits right in. She can be reached at (610) 443-0119, ext. 16, or kathyp@hirevisiongroup.com. You can read more about Kathy in our March edition of hireSolutions, as well as about these exciting topics:
Where, Oh, Where Has the Resume Gone?
hireVision’s Pinterest of the Month
Client Partner News: Avantor Featured on PBS’s “Tempo InDepth”
Client Partner Event: Milestone Bank presents “Strive for Success” Seminar Series
hireVision’s Monthly Escape: Tina’s Take on Beautiful Bodego Bay, CA
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?
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 currently the elected tax collector of East Rockhill Township, a position she has held 2002. Kathy holds a Bachelor’s of Science Degree in Accounting with a Minor in Management Information Systems from LaSalle University. We are thrilled to have her part of our team.
