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21 03, 2018

How to Behave Around California’s Salary History Ban

By |2018-04-11T15:42:36-07:00March 21, 2018|Blogs, Frontpage Articles, Rewards & Benefits|Comments Off on How to Behave Around California’s Salary History Ban

It can be tough keeping up with all of the changes coming out of Washington and Sacramento; it seems every hour there’s an announcement on new or modified regulations in the workplace. On January 1st, 2018, California unveiled a new law prohibiting employers from using an individual’s prior salary as a factor in setting pay rates. This law extends to public and private employers, as well as their agents, and it mandates that employers may not seek any information about an applicant’s current or past “compensation and benefits.” That’s right. California’s salary history ban makes it illegal for employers to [...]

28 11, 2017

How and Why to Include Creative Employees

By |2018-04-11T15:49:21-07:00November 28, 2017|Blogs, Frontpage Articles, HR Advisory & Facilitation|Comments Off on How and Why to Include Creative Employees

“People don’t become leaders because they have charisma; people get charisma because they’re leaders,” Seth Godin, author of Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us. According to a recent study of more than 12,000 U.S. and Canadian workers by global staffing firm Robert Half and Happiness Works, those in the creative and marketing occupations reported the highest levels of on-the-job satisfaction and interest in their work, compared to employees in the accounting and finance, administrative, legal, and technology fields. […]

15 11, 2017

Here’s What You Should Know About Employment Laws and the Trump Administration

By |2018-04-11T15:51:28-07:00November 15, 2017|Blogs, Frontpage Articles, HR Advisory & Facilitation|Comments Off on Here’s What You Should Know About Employment Laws and the Trump Administration

In less than a year we are seeing changes in employment legislation from President Barack Obama’s administration to President Trumps involving overtime law, business liability, federal contract bidding, and worker exposure to harmful circumstances, among other policies. […]

26 10, 2017

Counter Offers – Are they ever a Good Idea?

By |2018-04-11T15:52:20-07:00October 26, 2017|Blogs, Frontpage Articles, Talent Search & Recruitment|Comments Off on Counter Offers – Are they ever a Good Idea?

Every manager dreads the day a great employee drops the bomb that they’re leaving the Company for another job. In our current economic environment, many workplaces have hiring freezes or hiring delays making it painfully difficult to replace departing employees. […]

25 09, 2017

You’ve Hired the Best. Now What? Part Two

By |2018-04-11T15:54:21-07:00September 25, 2017|Blogs, Frontpage Articles, Talent Search & Recruitment|Comments Off on You’ve Hired the Best. Now What? Part Two

Welcome back to part two of the top 10 strategies to help you get HR right and free yourself up to innovate. Good HR means three things: a clear management structure, a way for people to talk about workplace issues and concerns, and pathways for people to evolve in their careers, here are our final strategies for success. […]

18 07, 2017

What does it mean to be The Human Boss™?

By |2018-04-11T15:55:17-07:00July 18, 2017|Blogs, Frontpage Articles, HR Advisory & Facilitation|Comments Off on What does it mean to be The Human Boss™?

Manager, Leader, Boss, Chief, Head Honcho, CEO, Supervisor, Owner, Vice President, Executive, Vice President… Being in charge at work means something different to everyone, but it’s clear that to get dynamic, sustained results, there are a few simple things you can do to gain the trust and loyalty of the team you lead. […]

18 07, 2017

What does it mean to be The Human Boss™?

By |2017-07-18T08:40:53-07:00July 18, 2017|Blogs, Frontpage Articles, HR Advisory & Facilitation|Comments Off on What does it mean to be The Human Boss™?

Manager, Leader, Boss, Chief, Head Honcho, CEO, Supervisor, Owner, Vice President, Executive, Vice President… Being in charge at work means something different to everyone, but it’s clear that to get dynamic, sustained results, there are a few simple things you can do to gain the trust and loyalty of the team you lead. […]

17 04, 2017

Strategic Hiring – Going Beyond the Behavioral Interview

By |2018-04-11T15:57:08-07:00April 17, 2017|Blogs, Frontpage Articles, Talent Search & Recruitment|Comments Off on Strategic Hiring – Going Beyond the Behavioral Interview

Behavioral interviewing, which came into fashion in the 1970s, has long been a trusted tool for hiring managers to use when selecting talent for the organization. By using questions that are structured in such a way so that the candidate can “Tell you about a time when…” and so forth, behavioral interviewing has given leaders insight into understanding how candidates think and how they have behaved in the past. Behavioral experts believe that the best way to predict future behavior is past behavior. Behavioral interviewing builds on this premise. But that’s only one piece of the puzzle. In order to [...]

10 04, 2017

Converting Interviews to Successful Hires

By |2018-04-11T15:57:16-07:00April 10, 2017|Blogs, Frontpage Articles, Talent Search & Recruitment|Comments Off on Converting Interviews to Successful Hires

Ten years after the disastrous financial crisis of 2007, we find ourselves back in a job seeker’s market where unemployment is at an all-time low and companies struggle to attract and retain the best candidates. As a business leader, you have so many things on your plate. Sifting through hundreds of resumes and interviewing dozens of candidates is time consuming and in the interest of time, there is a temptation by many leaders to hurry up and “fill the seats” as quickly as possible. But what happens when you make a job offer and the candidate turns you down? Do [...]

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