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HireCentrix – A Human Resource (HR) and Recruiting Knowledge Base

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Welcome to the information center of HireCentrix, where you will find everything from white papers, surveys, and various articles regarding all aspects of the employment industry. 

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A Better Way to End Employment-Based Country Quotas

Health / Safety / Risk Mgmt

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carl chustermanLimiting each country in the world to 7% of the 140,000 employment-based (EB) green cards granted each year is just plain stupid!

 

Why?

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How Do You View the World?

Recruiting and Candidate Dev

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danielbloomTo begin with on this first day of a brand new yea, may I wish you and yours a great new year.

 

I was reading the local newspaper this morning and a column by Bill Maxwell caught my attention. The column was entitled "White doubt reserved for black professional and it dealt with an effort of the local school district to enhance the number of black teachers that are hired.One of the members of the school board who is white is quoted as saying after the effort was announced who said the effort should be to hire quality over numbers. 

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H.R, Employers, Recruiters - are you familiar with the O*Net Resource Center?

Testing And Assessment

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onet logoThe O*NET program is the nation's primary source of occupational information. Central to the project is the O*NET database, containing information on hundreds of standardized and occupation-specific descriptors. The database, which is available to the public at no cost, is continually updated by surveying a broad range of workers from each occupation. Information from this database forms the heart of O*NET OnLine, an interactive application for exploring and searching occupations.

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Hell hath no fury like a government agency scorned

Health / Safety / Risk Mgmt

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JIMFESSENDEN

Misclassifying workers as independent contractors now carries an even steeper price.

California now has the nation's most punitive laws against worker misclassification.  While misclassification has always been illegal, businesses found to have incorrectly classified employees as independent contractors now face civil penalties ranging from $5,000 to $15,000 per employee, and $10,000 to $25,000 per employee in instances involving “a pattern and practice” of misclassification. 

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Increasing Discretionary Effort in the Workplace

General HR

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andrekoenYou're Not the Boss of Me.

Discretionary effort is the extra mile an employee is willing to take in order to satisfy their customers, coworkers, and contract. Employees get hired because of their skills and talents. It is their discretionary effort that becomes the measure of their value to the organization.

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Just One More Call!

Business / Client Dev & Marketing

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bobburgEarly in my speaking career and struggling to stay in business, I was often on the phone. Life was different back in the late 80′s. We had this thing called a…telephone. And, we actually called prospective client organizations.


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Ending Social Media Marketing Confusion

Business / Client Dev & Marketing

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jillwhalenConsider this scenario: You know you're supposed to get on Twitter to somehow promote your website. So you start randomly tweeting out links to a product or service page on your website. But who is going to care? Sure, you could do some Twitter searches and find people who are asking their own Twitter followers about a product or service that you may happen to offer.

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