In today’s tight labor market, chances are your organization is either looking to stand out from the crowd in your recruitment efforts or has been wracking it’s collective HR-brain for new, low cost ways to boost your appeal to existing employees through your benefits offerings – or both! Particularly if one of your organizational goals is to boost your standing among the less car dependent, environmentally minded, younger generations now dominating the workforce, then a commuter benefit program might fit the bill.
Commuter Benefit Programs, A Unique Employee Benefit
In today’s tight labor market, chances are your organization is either looking to stand out from the crowd in your recruitment efforts or has been wracking it’s collective HR-brain for new, low cost ways to boost your appeal to existing employees through your benefits offerings – or both! Particularly if one of your organizational goals is to boost your standing among the less car dependent, environmentally minded, younger generations now dominating the workforce, then a commuter benefit program might fit the bill.
Searching for a Background Check Provider? Ask These 3 Questions
It can be a daunting task if you are looking to implement a new background screening program or seeking a new background check provider. A Google search on “background check providers” produces 229,000 results. That’s a lot of potential companies!
Artificial Intelligence: The HR Professional’s New HR Tech Obsession
At this point, you may already be familiar with popular virtual assistant technologies such as Siri or Alexa. These Artificially Intelligent (AI) virtual assistants can do an array of tasks in an instant. Checking the weather, playing music, finding directions, and reading the news are all tasks that can be done simply by prompting the tabletop device in your home. Which brings the question, if these devices can help people every day in their homes, what are the ways they can bring AI into their workplace?
3 Tips to Bring Your HR Budget New Life
Developing an annual HR budget may become monotonous when line items stay the same year after year. Shake things up and give your budget the refresher it so desperately needs. Reexamine your budget with a new mindset and ensure it includes your actual departmental needs.
Employment Law News: Medical Marijuana in Ohio
Below, Tara Motheral, HR Advisor at ERC, discusses medical marijuana and its impact on workplaces throughout Ohio.
Protect Your Workplace—5 Frequently Asked Workplace Violence Questions
Every year, nearly 2 million American workers are reported victims of workplace violence. Workplace violence covers a wide range of acts or threats that are disruptive to the inside or outside of a workplace. Exposure to workplace violence or a lack of security may lower employees’ morale, leaving them feeling disengaged and unproductive. This is a rapidly growing concern for organizations worldwide, and we encourage seeking proper training to prevent and protect employees from possibly hostile situations.
5 Recruitment Tools You Should Be Using
With recruiting talent constantly on the do-list for most organizations, the laundry list of recruiting tools in Figure 1 below probably looks familiar. In short, employers are most likely using a healthy combination of online recruiting, relationship based recruiting, and connections to the career services centers at higher education institutions to search for their talent.
10 Crucial Skills for Supervisors to Hone
Editor’s note: This article was originally published in February 2016 and has been updated for accuracy and comprehensiveness.
Using Assessments to Develop Employee Learning Paths
Talent, in many organizations, seek learning and development opportunities to advance their careers. They often look to their employer for support and guidance. Therefore, it is important for organizations to provide structured learning. However, many employees may not know where to start when it comes to their professional and career development. Organizations have the unique opportunity to provide the “where to start” for employees in conjunction with developing the skills necessary for the overall goals of the organization.
Do Companies Request Salary History Information From Job Applicants?
You’re filling out a job application and just as you’re about to hit “submit”, you see the dreaded “Please provide the salary for your current position” question. Plus, it has a little red asterisk next to it, so you know you are going to have to answer it to even be considered. Well in recent years a combination of case law and statewide and local statutes are beginning to change that practice, or at least removing that pesky red asterisk.
Rise of Employees In Stigmatized Occupations
Recruiting and retaining people in stigmatized occupations can be difficult for many organizations. Stigmatized occupations are jobs that may be seen by society as being physically or socially tainted.1
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The Ultimate Guide to Training Your Supervisors and Managers
Learn how training your supervisors and managers will help them overcome challenges, motivate those around them, and be more effective in their roles.
