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What managers need to know about hiring

02/16/2024
While legal problems can crop up during an employee’s tenure, the two events that carry the most legal risk for employers are the hiring and the departure of an employee. Hiring discrimination lawsuits are particularly dangerous. To stay out of court, managers should build their hiring process around these principles:

THE NEW I-9 FORM

02/16/2024
The change of the calendar to 2017 carries with it a new paperwork duty for all employers—trash your old version of the I-9 (the Employment Eligibility Verification form) and start using the new version.

20 ‘Silver Bullet’ Interview Questions That Identify Great Job Applicants

02/16/2024
Interview questions come in all flavors. Sometimes they’re straightforward, sometimes they’re tricky and sometimes they’re just plain weird—“If you were an animal, what kind would you be?” But the best interview questions focus on what applicants know how to do. Here are 20 questions you can use to elicit the information you need to pick the right person for the job.

Recruiting Gen Z: 5 ways to align your culture with their values

02/07/2024
With January’s unemployment rate holding steady at a low 3.7% for the third straight month, employers continue to struggle to attract the workers they need. Could Generation Z—the cohort of young people born in 1997 or later—be the staffing solution today’s employers need?

Recruiting: Offer work-from-home option, tout opportunities to advance

01/29/2024
It’s tough to attract the best new hires if you can’t pay as much as larger employers can. However, you may have a couple competitive advantages big companies can’t offer: the option for employees to work remotely full-time and the promise of promotion opportunities.

Consider achieving diversity goals by dropping college-degree hiring criteria

01/16/2024
Of 800 U.S. employers surveyed that had degree requirements for select jobs in 2023, 45% plan to eliminate some bachelor’s degree requirements. What’s more, of the companies surveyed last year that eliminated some degree requirements, 73% plan to scrap the requirement for additional positions.

Report: Apply 3 key strategies to improve talent acquisition in 2024

01/03/2024
Three strategies should guide employers’ talent-acquisition efforts in 2024 and beyond, according to a new report by the Boston Consulting Group and the nonprofit World Federation of People Management Associations.

Use blind résumé screening process to reduce liability for discrimination in hiring

12/20/2023
Every applicant you ever rejected could decide to sue for some form of discrimination. Make that less likely by using a blind screening process to sort through applications and résumés.

More than half of employers to increase hiring in Q1 and Q2

12/19/2023
The job market will remain resilient heading into 2024, new research from outplacement firm Robert Half shows.

Take steps to stem manufacturing’s ‘brawn drain’

12/11/2023
The tight, post-pandemic labor market is hitting manufacturers hard. The U.S. unemployment rate fell even more in November to 3.7%, down from 3.9%. Workers who are seeking new positions increasingly look for high-paying, remote desk jobs instead of physically difficult, sometimes dirty and always on-site manufacturing jobs.