#Nextchat RECAP: How to Avoid “Hirer’s Remorse”
On July 13, @shrmnextchat chatted with Lorne Epstein, author of You’re Hired! Interview Skills to Get the Job about How to Avoid Hirer’s Remorse.In case you missed this amazing chat filled with great...
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What’s Next for the Job Market in 2016?
The U.S. economy continues to add jobs, albeit at a slower rate in the past few months. Decreased demand is partially to blame and perhaps comes as no surprise, as some return to moderation was...
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Under-Represented Youth and the Social Organization
iUrban Teen and the White House Celebration of My Brother’s Keeper Anniversary“I'm so proud of iUrban Teen and other ‘career accelerators’ for underrepresented youth. We're guiding the next talent...
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Future Friday: Is your HR department designed with humans in mind?
I came across an article titled Do people really matter when we design workplaces? Written by Steve Maslin it is directed toward architects and designers. He says that often the first reaction to...
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5 Insidious Effects of a Mis-Hire
The world’s innovators are calling for reinvention and transformation of HR departments. Given that the majority of hiring responsibilities fall within HR, and it is—in most cases—the point of entry...
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How to Hire Honest People
My father once bought a life insurance policy from an agent who was warm, friendly, and had impeccable credentials.He also embezzled thousands of dollars from my dad.It can be difficult to evaluate a...
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How to Find the Right Cultural Fit with Job Descriptions
Usually, job descriptions are boring. Anyone who has ever written several job descriptions likely has experienced the feeling of their eyes glazing over while typing the words “responsibilities” and...
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How to Hire Accountable People
Accountable employees keep their promises, consider the consequences of their actions, take responsibility for their mistakes, and make amends for those mistakes.The following questions may help you...
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The Dilemma of Bias in Leadership
I’ve recently been conducting research related to bias in interviewing and hiring and in doing so uncovered some excellent and surprising information on how to build a greater awareness of ones bias in...
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How to Hire Caring People
In business, the term care is generally applied to the business-client relationship. It has given rise to unwieldy terms like customer care associate for the people formerly known as sales agents....
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Everyone matters. Good communication from employers throughout the job application process can help mitigate job applicant concerns. Job candidates are noisy. These undeniable truths are covered in...
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To Fill the Talent Gap, Take a Fresh Look at the Overlooked
The number of U.S. job openings recently reached 5.9 million—an all-time high. Yet with an unemployment rate of under 5 percent, the nation is already near what many economic experts consider "full...
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How to Hire Courageous People
Courageous employees make the lives HR managers easier because they are willing to address problems that would be easier to ignore. The following questions and suggestions may be useful for...
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How to Hire Fair People
Of the ten crucial qualities of high-character employees that we’re exploring in this 10-part series, fairness—the commitment giving to others their due–is among the most difficult to evaluate in job...
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“Civilian..(not Soldier) for Life!”
So much has been written, studied, and researched regarding the challenge of veteran’s transition. In the past I’ve written about the divide between the “We Will” environment of the military and the...
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Labor Market Has Tightened, but Opportunities Still Exist
New research from the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) suggests that the U.S. labor market has cooled off a bit in 2016, but economic conditions and hiring rates remain quite favorable for...
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How to Hire Grateful People
Suppose that Helen is the HR manager of a large clothing company, and Adriana and Mirabel are two women applying for a position in Helen’s department. Both women moved to the area recently. Here is...
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HR Intel: Crisis for Chipotle? HR to the Rescue!
About six weeks ago, we covered some of Chipotle’s HR trials and tribulations, including a class action lawsuit filed by 10,000 workers claiming wage theft and the NLRB attacking provisions of the...
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Resources Are Available to Help HR Leaders Recruit and Hire Military Veterans
You can contact the nearest American Job Center (AJC) for advice and guidance on recruiting and hiring veterans. These centers are run by the Department of Labor (DOL), which has partnered with the...
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How to Extract the Skills that Military Veterans Can Bring to Your Organization
Veterans of the military may have a difficult time describing the skills that they gained in the military in their resumes and during interviews. Your company’s resume reviewers and interviewers may...
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