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Health / Safety / Risk Mgmt

Who’s considered “disabled” under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)? Ever since the passage of the ADA Amendments Act (ADAAA) a few years ago, the better question has been “Who isn’t?” The new law eased the definition of disability, allowing many more employees to earn accommodations at work. In this new case, a court has ruled that an employee may be protected if she can’t pick up something as light as a gallon of milk …

Career / Personal Development

Recently, I had a brief email conversation about an article I presented in three parts; How a Candidate is Viewed by a Hiring Manager . It covered how a hiring manager views candidates. I received a comment that was extremely accurate. The person emailing said, the bottom line is, there is so much information out there, how do you know what is helpful and what is not?

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Recruiting and Candidate Dev

I have written about the changing nature of work several times, as recently as two weeks ago (See Changing Nature of Work and the Difficulty of Government Regulation) so it is something I find interesting. So I was happy to run across Josh Bersin’s blog post The End of a Job as We Know It written on January 30, 2012. Josh talks about many of the issues that I have also talked about. But he used a phrase that I think has implications for many areas. He said the world of jobs today is “…all about expertise, not about experience.”

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Org Development

During a recent conversation with the amazing Buzz Rooney, she said to me; People who suck, don’t know they suck. I had an Oprah moment. Simple and true. Think about it for a moment, I know there are things that I’m good at and then there are other things that I am not good at, quite frankly I suck at them. For instance, I found some old items that I wrote years ago and I thought, “Wow that wasn’t good at all.” Ever buy some clothing and thought they were great but in retrospect…meh?

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Health / Safety / Risk Mgmt

Leaves That Pay: Employer and Worker Experiences With Paid Family Leave in California
As family and work patterns have shifted over recent decades, the demand for time off from work to address family needs has grown rapidly. Women—and increasingly men as well—often find themselves caught between the competing pressures of paid work and family responsibilities, especially when they become parents, or when serious illness strikes a family member.

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Career / Personal Development

There is no debate what so ever, networking is the chief avenue to landing a new job, hands down.  And the plethora of tips, tactics and tricks to network are limitless on the web. Just Google the term networking and you are likely to be inundated with information on how to do it and profit from it.  My cursory search found 127 million links. 

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General HR

The other day, I had an exchange with a Facebook friend concerning an article about helicopter parents at work. She said, “Krista, do you see any helicopter parent involvement in the applications you receive? Any parents show up for the interview? This seems SO CRAZY.” I told her that I have HR colleagues who’ve had employees’ parents call to argue performance review ratings. And while I haven’t encountered that myself, sometimes young folks respond to job offers with,”I have to ask my mom.”